According to her facebook page she's just recorded her 2nd disc of Scarlatti sonatas, a good time to play last year's disc again.
Now, Shostakovich: Symphony 8, Op.65 - Bernard Haitink/Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam - Bernard Haitink/Shostakovich: The Symphonies - 11 CDs, Decca; disc 7. Recorded in 1982.
I was lucky to find two copies of this very nice old tulip label LP. Geza Anda, Martha Argerich, Stefan Askenase, Svjatoslav Richter, Julian von Karolyi and Tamas Vasary. BTW....does anyone own a recording with Julian von Karolyi? On the TT....
This CD is interesting in its selection of works... And this is my first HDAD ( Sounds great...I used to have all these LP's and reels.)
I think yes. The original was recorded with the Oesterreichischer Rundfunk, Studio Klagenfurt. Mine is just the US reissue, volume IV.
Well, since I watched the video you posted, I visualized how he was playing. Everything sounded great to me, but what's not to like?
I see. I just wanted to know if you liked his Chopin interpretations....you know how sometimes you can like a pianist's rendition of X composer but not like the one of Y.... The one I am very curious about is the Brahms 1 ( I hope and assume its included in your CD set ) with Giulini. As I have stated a few times on this thread, it is to this day my very fave interpretation of my fave Piano Concerto so I would really like to know your opinion, once you get around listening to it!
My favourite recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21. The recording quality leaves something to be desired, but Argerich's piano more than makes up for that. None of the recordings I've heard have as much energy and joy as this one.
I cannot report back to you on classical music the way I can with my rock/pop/blues music. I know whether I like a guitarist practically from the first note, but I'm nowhere near that point with classical musicians yet. I am making progress though. When the Great Performances albums first came out I thought I'd buy some of them, and at that point, for example, the NY Philharmonic playing Bach violin concertos basically sounded the same to me as the Beethoven violin concerto. Not any more, but it takes time. I'm deeply immersed in classical music in my current geezer stage of life, but this didn't happen until a little bit before I retired. Right now, I don't have a favorite pianist, or violinist. But I do have a favorite vocalist (she is lovely and talented ) Actually, in addition to Emma, I'm partial to Patricia Petibon and Cecilia Bartoli. Three completely distinct voices that I like. But I am not able to sort out performance differences between, let's say, Hilary Hahn, Nicola Benedetti and Janine Jansen. Not yet anyway. Currently I hear the music, not so much how it's performed.
Let me go off-topic for a second: which blues genre are you referring to, post-war electric blues or pre-war (acoustic) country and urban blues? Not that I want to go into that any further here, but I'm just interested - I love pre-war blues and some post-war (see my profile).
Now that I think of it, I can name some pianists/performances that stand out for me: Ashkenazy playing Beethoven sonatas Ashkenazy playing Chopin Vasary playing Chopin Marcelle Meyer in general Melodie Zhao playing Beethoven sonatas Glenn Gould in general
J.A.W., I'm going to reply to this by starting a Conversation with you so I don't go too far off topic.
