Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #34)

My first thought, if anyone was to ask what is his identifiable performing signature : that is so special about Richter (beside his prodigious technical ability)...: is his natural magical spontaneity. A sense that he was prepared to perform a work a certain way but at some split second point, had yet discovered still newer insight, and played accordingly. This ,from a person reputed to have enough material stored in his memory for 20 full concerts. It is mind boggling.

 

In Arrau's perfomance with Colin Davis cond, of Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 (Philips Cd) that type of hard physical contact is clearly on display a few times

One night I was sitting in the front row of a concert by the late Geoffery Tozer who recorded a lot of Medtner's works.. Looking back on reflection, judging from that particular performance: he must have been even then, in what one could call, a fragile condition. By the end of his solo concert , I could not help but jump up and be glad, to be the first person, out the exits. The piano on stage, somehow happened to be amazingly, still intact .

 

His Satie is the best I have heard.

 

Just put this on.

 

I have this....it's part of the Chandos 30 year Milestone set.
It's "ok".....I have heard etudes done by veterians that was much better!

 

My guidebook lists him amongst the best Chopin Etude interpreters, along with Ashkenazy, Berezovsky, Kilenyi, Wild and Zayas.

 

Nonesuch H-71261.producer:Joshua Rifkin.engineering:Ben Taylor.
mastering:Robert C. Ludwig (Sterling Sound,Inc.) a Dolby-system recording.
c.1971.i'm no expert in Early Music,but this comes off a little weak compared to more recent efforts,despite having a certain charm.

 

The ones I heard and liked were Arrau and Richter.
How was Moravec performing Chopin Etudes?

 

On the spin....had a hanker'in for something different for a change.

 

after listening to Bruno Walter's 1960 recording & Karl Bohm's from 1973,tonight i
tried a recording of Bruckner's 4th recorded on 9/8/44 by Hans Knappertsbusch & the
Berliner Philharmoniker (Preiser CD 90226).i got this without the booklet (for $1)
& don't have any information about the recording,but i assume it was made by the RRG
on a Magnetophon reel-to-reel.sound & performance are pretty good.

 

Now playing:

• Prokofiev: The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118 (complete ballet) - Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdestvensky [Russian Disc 1994 2CD, Recorded in 1968 — tape transfer & restoration is less than ideal, some drop-outs, glassy upper registers, rough-sounding and patchy in spots, not 'unlistenable', but there is a better-sounding 1999 reissue on Melodiya/BMG, remastered by Michael Glaser at Digital Media Service GmbH — cursory online search indicates this has not been reissued by Brilliant Classics as part of its Historical Russian Archives series — although Prokofiev's eighth and final ballet (composed 1948-1953) is a great piece of music (IMO), I can only find two CD issues in print of the complete music using ArkivMusic's index]

 

Thanks, that's good to know!

 

I don't think he recorded many of them.

For sets, I like Cortot, Ashkenazy and Gavrilov. I have the new Anda live set on Orfeo, but I need to hear it again before deciding about it.

 

Meh.

Perahia sounds amazing in this, kinda like what Moravec might have sounded. Cortot is amazing in the Etudes, though he recorded them so many times and so variably it's a little difficult tracking down his best performances in this music.

There's a recording by Augustin Anievas that I've owned on LP many times. A late-night disc jockey for the L.A. classical station happened to be sponsored by local audiophile shops. The DJ demo-ed the Grace 707 arm on one of these shows, with an audible reduction in surface noise and an increase in dynamics on the record he was playing. I was particularly struck by this player's beauty of tone. Worth hunting down, my copies were Seraphim pressings.

 

I hope I never run out of Lute/theorbo/style CD's to get and listen to...For some reason, I always end up listening to that stuff...

 

Ain't that a beauty.

 

It is great but....I go to Roge a little more than JYT. Gotta have both though.

 

Two of them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPZ05l0Vih8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mk06DZNTFg

 

In the cd player draw over the last few days.
Haydn Symphonies 100 & 102 thru 104
ECO/ Tate 1986/7 recording reissued on Classics for pleasure in 2008 as a double.

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony,A Pastoral Symphony, Symphony N.o 4,5,6,8,9 plus Sonfonia antartica.
LPO/NPO Boult.
Wasp free 2011 five pack . Well worth the money for the playing and yes even the recording quality seeming more spacious than a good many early digital recordings.

Schubert Symphony No.5
BPO Boehm from the DG 4 cd pack

P.s gonna spring for that Wand Sony/BMG pack of Bruckner Symphonies as I can get that for about GBP 14 plus shipping. Has to be worth it, eh?

 

How do you guys know so much about classical music?

 

Boring lives I guess...and too much disposable income.

 

I used to prefer Roge to everyone else, but for me, Thibaudet has a little something extra, and great sound too!

 

Doctor VanHooser, sharing this information with you:

Name: Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major "Romantic".
Version:1888 Revised by Ferdinand Loewe. Ed. Albert Gutmann [1889]
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Recorded On: 8/9/1944
Published Date: 1889
Recording: Adagio Classics CD 4004
Total Time: 60:37 (fast conducting)
First Movement: 17:54
Second Movement: 14:56
Third Movement: 9:26
Fourth Movement: 17:32
Notes: Broadcast recording without an audience

 

Pink light downloads, al la Philip K. Dick.

I worked for decades as the resident "Classical Music Maven" at various record stores. Also did radio shows and recorded as the "House Recording Engineer" for a number of musical organizations. I also used to spend too much time pouring over the listings in a number of Classical music journals.

 

Currently spinning this great version of The Planets...anyone else have it?