Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #8)

John Field was supposed to have influenced Chopin. John O'Conor was also a student of either Wilhelm Kempff or Fred Gulda.

 

It was by the NYPO. I have the same set and alerted Jay of the availability of this remastered set, which is now his favorite Mahler set ...

 

Found this with a lil help from Google.

Biography

"The Irish pianist John O'Conor has earned a worldwide reputation as a masterful interpreter of the Classic and early-Romantic repertoires.

Following initial studies in his native Dublin he studied in Vienna with the renowned pedagogue Dieter Weber, won First Prize at the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Vienna in 1973 and made a special study of Beethoven with the legendary German pianist Wilhelm Kempff.

Since then he has toured the world in recital and concerto appearances and makes regular visits to Europe, the USA, Japan, Korea and China.

His recordings on the Telarc label have brought him particular renown. CD Review described his box set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas as "Beethoven playing at its best"; the New York Times named his recording of the Beethoven Bagatelles as the best available; his recording of the John Field Nocturnes spent many weeks on the Billboard charts and his recently released recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andreas Delfs have been greeted with great acclaim.

For his services to music he has been decorated with "l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Government, the "Ehrenkreuz fur Wissenschaft und Kunst" by the Austrian Government and has received many other awards."

 

I have many recordings by Wilhelm Kempff, on both CD and on LP. He was indeed one of the greatest pianists from the 20th century ...

 

Now playing CD3 from this set ...

 

Now playing CD4 from this set ...

 

No, the M8 is performed by the LSO. The Israel Philharmonic does Kindertotenlieder.

 

BTW guys, I found a great used copy of the Sokolov Chopin preludes today. Only a small mark on the bar code, CD is perfect. If anyone wants it for $9 plus s/h, PM me. I can send it on Monday. Great sound and performance on this one!

 

After all classical solo / church organ recordings were missing completely in my collection - so I tried out these fine organ works played on an organ build by the well respected organ builder Aristide Cavaille-Coll ( 1811 - 1899 ) in the catherdal on Rouen. Sounds good !

 

Now playing this CD from my baroque collection ...

 

Speaking of that BVT.....

I was sent this Cd FREE from a member on my other forum....it got annihilated in the mail.
I couldn't believe it and was most disappointed!!
I'm VERY interested in finding a used like new copy for a reasonable price to replace it.

 

Anyone heard of a Cd Label called Iron Needle Records?
Made in Italy

The seem to be resurrected OLD recordings from 1910's-1940's.

If so.....recordings any good or are they snap....crackle and hiss?

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Now playing: Dvorak - Cello Concerto in E Minor Op104 Allegro (001 Canada Classical - Vancouver Toronto - 001radio.com)
via FoxyTunes

 

I don't recommend this label - provided, you can get the same recordings from Naxos or somewhere else (if not, get Iron Needle). I have 1 Iron Needle CD - Fritz Kreisler playing Beethoven sonatas. Besides no-noising (obvious but acceptable), what really ruins it for me is that cheap artifical spatializer for separating violin and piano. Personally, if I want any DSP I prefer to apply it in my player via plugins.

 

In all my years listening to CD, I have only experienced two problems - dropout or infinite repeats but never crackle (as in pops and clicks) and hiss (as in tape) ...

 

I have most of the RR releases but this one is still missing in my collection. However, I have this Mary Preston recording on RR.



http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue41/marypreston.htm

 

Got that disc about a month ago. Very impressive on first listening.

 

Just finished playing CD4 - St John Passion from this set. CD5 is next ...

 

Are you going to pick up the new John Eliot Gardiner box? Or do you already own most of it?

 

FYI I started a variant of our Classical thread.....
Please refer to my new thread and maybe share or help?

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=212206

 

I have had all his individual JS Bach passions and oratorios on Archive, not the big box for a number of years.

 

Now playing CD1 from this set - S1 and S2 ...

 

Is this the box of which you speak, John? It might be nice for someone like me, who doesn't have a lot of JEG.

http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Master...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1269788582&sr=1-2

 

Very nice Schubert symphonies.

 

This is probably the second re-issue of the same big box. I also believe the original individual releases were already in digital. As such, these recordings probably were not remastered for this latest release ...

 

Jay, I think John might be referring to the following set. The set includes St Matthew Passion, St John Passion, Mass in B and Christmas Oratorio. I already own all the individual works. All these works were recorded prior to 1990. The set you posted may include mostly later recordings ...