Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #20)

Is this twofer OOP?

 

On recordings, Lupu's tone (though more beautiful than Brendel's for sure) often has this haziness/blurriness that sometimes puts me off, but tonight is sounding very nice. I have now moved on to Lupu's D 960 and am very very much enjoying it.

Brendel's Schubert was among the first few CDs I got by the composer. His live 2CD set is impressive and well worth getting.

Until I heard Richter's Schubert, I hadn't really bothered to get multiple CDs by the same pianist. The issue initially was that I wasn't sure how much I liked the music. Back then I didn't realize how important the interpreter was. I recall a discussion with my Music History professor around that time who told me that the head of the Piano Performance department believed that no one could play Schubert properly. Although I am sure she was exaggerating, I got her point. I think a similar point was made in the great French film, The Piano Teacher.

After hearing Richter (and to a lesser extent, Pires) I realized that it wasn't the music I was lukewarm on, it was the interpretations. As a result, I have single Schubert CDs numerous different pianists and 19 Richter Schubert CDs. Now Schubert is among my favorite composers for the piano.

 

Dunno, but there are some new and used copies over at amazon. For a while, it was hard to find.

 

And one of my favorite composers ever. My three desert island composers are Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven.

 

I love all three of those. I'd replace Haydn with Chopin though. And I'd be very upset to leave Mozart and Rachmaninov out.

 

Yeah, George, I would add the same ones. I just figured I'd list three instead of going on and on with a big list (which for me would continue and include Rach, and Mozart, as well as Marin Marais).

 

Lupu is playing Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Dohnanyi/NYP on 1/19 & 1/21 at Avery Fisher Hall. Are you going?

 

No, I am not. Mostly, it's that I can't afford it. I used to go to some free piano recitals at Julliard, but when I moved to Queens I stopped going. I bet those concerts will be great, though. His recording of that work on Decca is wonderful.

 

Just ordered the following 2 sets this evening from two of my favorite Amazon MP vendors ...

 

enjoy, schubert is one of the greats! and a big +1 for richter in schubert, but if you're talking about pires in the impromptus, you really should hear schnabel...

 

I have many sets of the Impromptus, including Schnabel. Pires is my favorite.

 

I have Perahia doing D899 and 935 Impromptus. Schnabel (or Pires) do any others I should check out?

 

Lupu (Decca) is nice as well, Edwin Fischer (Testament or Pearl), Kempff (DG) are also very good.

 

Schubert D. 960

Reading Gramophone January 2011 issue survey by Bryce Morrison of Schubert Piano Sonata D. 960, thirty-six versions picked and evaluated. Coming out on top is Kempff's 1967 recording, also highlighted: Uchida, Curzon, Lupu.

Now playing:

• Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 - Dezső Ránki [Denon 1975, reissued in 1985 on Japanese CD, one of my favorite 960's, the Hungarian Ránki only 23 at time of recording, this is not turgid late Schubert, and he takes no repeats: 15.20, 8.43, 3.40, 6.41]

 

tonight's 95-cent lp:Berg-Lulu Suite/Strauss-Salome,final scene/Anja Silja,soprano/
Vienna Philharmonic/Christoph von Dohnanyi,London OS 26397,1974.recorded 4/24-6/73,
Sofiensaal,Vienna.producer:Christopher Raeburn.engineers:Gordon Parry & Philip Wade.
my copy is in good shape.recording seemed a little distant,but climaxes were pretty huge.soprano's voice a bit overpowered,but i suppose that may be more realistic.

 

Just recieved the Bernstein symphonies today. Starting tonite with disc 1-Beethoven!

 

Never heard that recording, but I'm a big fan of the works. Final scene of Salome smokes. Check out Ljuba Welitsch in this astonishing 1949 performance for the be-all end-all Salome. Too bad Strauss didn't continue down this harmonic avenue after Elektra.

 

Grrr...I have had this on order with HMV for months...originally it was due out November and then they pushed the release date back to 10/01/11. I looked today at my account hoping they may have shipped it and now it's got a release date of February. May have to switch my order.

Enjoy the set!

 

Good Morning Fellow Classiholics!

I will title today "Overlooked" day here in this thread!
Our job.....point out overlooked Classical Composers....works and the like.
Should be educational and a lotta fun!!

I start off with one of the most overlooked Operas out there.
Copland's The Tender Land.....I might add one of the very few Operas I like!

Samples
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Great record it seems!

 

That could be interesting, you gonna make me buy more music.
I honestly can not recall ever listening to it.

 

Out of curiosity, what is the cost of an average seat for an NYPO concert at Avery Fisher?

 

It really depends, now that I joined their mailing list I get many offers like the one below. First time I went I paid $100 for the best seats in the house, now I mostly get the same seats for $50. You can see that regular prices go from $35 to $115 but the offer gives you the same seats for $29 or $49. Obviously you won't get an offer like this for sold out performances.

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Note that you can get a recording (ex-CBS/Columbia, natch) of this work with the composer conducting. It popped out on more than one issue in and around the recent centeniary year.

Here's a nice "neglected" group of works for your consideration: Cesar Franck's three piano trios, op. 1. I'll confess that the third has yet to do a lot for me, but the first two are real winners, and why they are so seldom heard I just can't fathom. My favorite recording of no. 1 (out of two that I know) is by a group of players, young by their picture on the cover, calling itself the Munich Trio on the defunct Callig label--hard to find, alas, but worth the effort. I know nos. 2 and 3 only from a complete set on the Dynamic label. That one, at least, still seems to be in print, if pricey; the account of no. 1 found there is good, but it lacks the German ensemble's rich, thick, creamy, high-cholesterol tonal values and white-hot sense of commitment.

But wait! There's more! Order by midnight tomorrow, and you also get this recommendation of an obscurity: Rimsky-Korsakoff's quintet in B-Flat for piano and winds. Most of us who love this work cut our recording eye-teeth, I imagine, on an old London LP (my copy was in the Stereo Treasury Series) by members of the Vienna Octet. It's OK, but for my money Capricorn on Hyperion outplay the Viennese at every turn.

 

Thanks. These figures are not as high as I imagined.