Antonín Dvořák
and Max Bruch:
Notes:
"There is one rather sad difference between these marvellous concertos. Whereas Dvořák
was encouraged by his publisher Fritz Simrock to write the A minor concerto and was decently paid for it, also receiving performance royalties, Bruch unwisely sold the G minor concerto outright to a publisher for a fixed fee. A royalty contract would have given him a handsome pension at the end of his long life, when he was living in poverty. As an old man, he was even cheated out of the promised sale of the manuscript score." Tully Potter
Some things never change.
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Mahgister, still enjoying Mozart by Paul badura skoda, can’t get enough
just got my sofronitsky Vinyl collection from Russia, very excited |
When I sit down at the piano nowadays, it's the book of Chopin manuscripts that I open first. Of course, I go for the easier pieces but that doesn't mean they're easy. In any case, no matter how how easy or difficult a Chopin work may be, they never fail to totally enthrall. |
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Aaron Copland COPLAND 100 Minnesota Orchestra Eiji Oue Reference Recordings 2000 HDCD Notes: "The special qualities of Copland's Appalachian Spring(1944), one of the composer's most popular works, owed much to choreographer Martha Graham, for whom it was written. Copland stated, "....Nobody else seems quite like Martha: she's so proud, so very much herself. And she's unquestionably very American: there's something prim and restrained, simple yet strong, about her which one tends to think of as American." Appalachian Spring Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3luGMG3PoY&t=131sCheers |
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"Apparently I typed Horowitz, but was thinking Rubinstein."
Almost as wrong for Rubinstein. |
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It is the best interpretation i know....
My best to you.... |
John O'Conor recorded Field's Nocturnes many moons ago with Telarc (I can't find an original issue date); I remember getting the CD as soon as it came out.
He also did a complete survey of the Beethoven sonatas (also Telarc) which is often overlooked. Contradicting J Gordon Holt's dictum, it's a very good performance of great music in excellent sound. |
Frédéric Chopin
CHOPIN
Études
Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classical 2001 Notes: "The word "etude" means "study" - and every one of these studies addresses a specific technical concern, the mastery of which can only benefit a pianist in any other works he or she plays. And yet the etudes are much more than mere exercises, for their Herculean physical demands are nothing compared to their musical ones. Even Artur Rubinstein, who played Chopin all over the world for three-quarters of a century, was daunted by the etudes, admitting frankly that he was "scared to death" of them. "To do the justice is a most difficult task, which I haven't yet had the courage to attempt," he wrote to an admirer in 1962." --Tim Page A sampling of Op. 10 & Op. 25. 12 Etudes, opus 10 No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7bY13EcCkNo. 5 in G-Flat Major "Black Keys"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Fm-1tvSY12 Etudes, opus 25 No. 10 in B Minor "Octave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmihKi-A59sNo. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doWiXaPfhINo. 12 in C Minor "Ocean"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDc4UpspuKQCheers |
Does anyone know the work of American / Dutch pianist Andrew von Oeyen. He is quite well represented on Idagio at the moment with his latest recording on their front pages. It is a recording of Bach and Beethoven with the star being the Appassionata sonata. he has a stunning technique which is put to good use here. He takes the tempo at a fair lick and the result is spellbinding. He also has other recordings on Idagio with a favourite for me of Liszt , with the B Minor Sonata being for me the star again with fast tempos favoured but with due care taken to the slow intervals. On said slow sections he has a beautiful tender side and lovely limpid touch. On the same recording he does the Rigoletto Paraphrase with gorgeous octave glissandos and stunning Chordal playing. I just wish he had room for the Three Petrarch Sonnets as his technique is really suited them. |
"and and of course a few by Horowitz. I think Chopin was all he played."
Really? What planet do you live on?
A thousand pardons o' watchful one.. Apparently I typed Horowitz, but was thinking Rubinstein. If you have a problem with Rubinstein, too bad. We can all be thankful that there is always an "Audiophile" ready and willing to correct all 'errors' made on this Forum. To answer your question directly: Earth. You? Cheers |
Excellent post! Beautiful clip as well, Thank you.
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Chopin loved and played and made his students play the works of JS Bach. This predestined fate of each chord in Chopin comes from rigorous meditation of Bach written script.... Chopin is greater than what the beauty of his melodies speak about : the human heart... He is a mathematical musical brain genius like Bach... We feel Bach all along listening Chopin.... Chopin listened the marvellous nocturnes of the great pianist Field with the Bach tutoring, and the rest is history.... Before Chopin there is Field.... Nobody ever written so heartful melodies balancing heart and breathing in this way , Field did this the first... Chopin listened and with the great tools inherited from Bach transform what the genius playing of Field on the new piano instrument created to more developed strongly written works and not only marvellous inspired almost improvised melodies and chords... But we must listen to Field to know where Chopin begin using Bach track and to understand what was Chopin debt to Bach... Whatever the genius is, the greatest geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses back in time....Field is a genius but Chopin is almost a god standing of the shoulders of these two.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEUGj9mPg2w |
Here's a recording that's off the beaten track, yet has some great music and some equally delightful playing.
Mendelssohn, "Discoveries. Rare Piano Works". Roberto Prosseda, Decca. Highly recommended. |
Chopin loved and played and made his students play the works of JS Bach. |
Now, now. Tough crowd. ☺️ |
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and of course a few by Horowitz. I think Chopin was all he played."
Really? What planet do you live on? |
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Hard to argue with the Grumiaux, mahgister. Wonderful playing and luminous tone indeed. Raises the question: was it one of his Guarnieris, the Strad, or the Guadagnini? I wonder what his insurance bill was? 😊 |
Glad you liked it. It does take some time to “get” serial music. One has to surrender to the different musical language; kind of like post bop Coltrane compared to Prez. Try his opera “Wozzeck” sometime. Banned by the Nazis as “degenerate art”. Fabulous work.
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@frogman
I like your favorite Berg better than the one I posted. In any event, Berg does get a little better, to my ear, with repeated listening.
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Johann Sebastian Bach THE ART OF THE FUGUE Emerson String Quartet Philip Setzer (violin) Eugene Drucker (violin) Lawrence Dutton (viola) David Finckel (cello) DG 2003 Notes: Language that only a Musician would love, or understand. The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vF9owrxMoCheers Wiki: fugue Music - a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
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Fabulous work! One of my very favorite modern works and arguably the most popular composition out of the Second Viennese School. A twelve tone row with strong elements of late Romanticism making the paring with the Beethoven not quite as odd as it may seem at first glance. The chorale in the Adagio is a thing of beauty. Of note is the use of alto saxophone in the score for a very interesting color. Very good performance. Thanks. My favorite: https://youtu.be/j-4hIAYwW4k |
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Mahgister
Excellent advice on Mozart. I love it! Thanks |
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Brahms / Tchaikovsky
VIOLIN CONCERTOS Jascha Heifetz (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fritz Reiner RCA / Sony 1955 -1957 / 2005 SACD Notes:"When in the spring of 1878 Tchaikovsky completed his violin concerto, he dedicated it and presented it to Leopold Auer, who was perhaps the most noted virtuoso and certainly the greatest teacher of his time. The composer must have been bitterly disappointed when the master would not undertake the concerto, declaring it unplayable --- so terrifying were its difficulties." Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFJgVYFQh4&t=700s
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxGp1Ii4r8M&t=59sCheers |
Badura-Skoda in Mozart is my first choice, in spite of all others pianists interpretation...
The reason is simple,Mozart wrote his pieces on this instrument and it is evident by the hard contrasts this instrument made possible to express...
The Schubert is very interesting ....
I will recommend the Mozart like an absolute must.....
Anyway a very great instrumennt well served by a musician of the first order....
Peace to his soul.....
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Paul badura-skoda playing pianoforte (period instrument)
complete Schubert and Beethoven sonatas. Absolute magic, piano forte sounds so sweet and warm, it transforms the music and you hear it the way great masters did when they composed it. Bedura- skoda was one of the few to record all Schubert and Beethoven sonatas On both piano and pianoforte. Truly sublime sound and exquisite virtuosity |
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Robert Schumann FANTASY PIECES
Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Mischa Maisky (cello) DG 2002 From the Notes: Speaking Of Clara Schumann, " She was one of the foremost pianists of the romantic era--the trio here was written for her by her husband Robert, and she also owned the quartet by Brahms, in the sense that she presided at the keyboard in the first performance. To have this music played by a dynamic woman pianist of our own time, Martha Argerich, is therefore doubly appropriate." Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 88
I. Romanze (Nicht schnell, mit innigem Ausdruck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKqXcZJdPQ
II. Humoreske (Lebhaft)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBg5aXkOIlQ
III. Duett (Langsam und mit Ausdruck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVZltb1LPs
IV. Finale (Im Marsch-Tempo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FlJ6I180kCheers
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Johannes Brahms PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN G MINOR Martha Argerich (piano) Gidon Kremer (violin) Yuri Bashmet (viola) Mischa Maisky (cello) DG 2002 Notes: "Johannes Brahms's three piano quartets, on which he worked in the late 1850s, have differing characters. The C minor is impassioned and concise, while the A major is equable and balanced. The G minor, everyone's favorite, is the most varied in content. Brahms selected it for the all-important concert on 16 November 1862 at which he appeared before the Viennese public for the first time as pianist and composer." Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
I. Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsioqZ9hCEA
II. Intermezzo (Allegro ma non troppo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F22zrRwiRc
III. Andante con moto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCDo_f2KeQ
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klc5KkM8fgCheers |
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Johannes Brahms VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D OP. 77 Nigel Kennedy (violin) The London Philharmonic Klaus Tennstedt EMI 1991 Notes: "For the most part, composers can be divided into two groups: those who copy other composers, and those that totally disrespect the past, reject it, and write something 'totally new'. Brahms was too rare to come from either of these categories. He correctly saw himself as being responsible for the development and evolution of the mainstream of classical music. Instead of copying or rejecting the work of his great predecessor, Beethoven, he developed and expanded Beethoven's music into a kind of music we can only call Brahms." allegro non troppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_iRiq0bzoYadagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnbMxdW0zkallegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0oNfOrI0ngCheers |
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One of my favorite violonist of all time is Arthur Grumiaux... I am drugged by his tone and light... When you listen to him you dont hear a virtuoso at all.... You see colors....And colors sings.... I cannot even recommend one album , perhaps Bach violin concertos the best ever....Or anything by this illuminated master.... Superlative artistry beyond most.... Try Mozart and dont listen to the sound look for the colors and light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrM9l4AsXE Same light with different colors here in Handel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHBstDPPOs |
Wang certainly has a stunning technique but like Trifoniov and Buniatishvhilli they need to get into their third decade and beyond to gain some musicality, only then will they be unbeatable. |
Her concerts are usually sold out. Bionic fingers, indeed.
Volodos-like. Good musician. But not the great artistry yet. |
Not a 'go to' artist for me, but she sure is first class eye candy! And a good performer as well. |
I was just sampling a few youtube videos of Yuja Wang. She undoubtedly has bionically fast fingers and hands, but I wasn't sensing much artistry. What are your impressions? |
Johannes Brahms HANDEL VARIATIONS - RHAPSODIES - PIANO PIECES Murray Perahia (piano) Six Piano Pieces Op. 118
Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classics Recorded June 19-24, 2010 Funkhaus Berlin
Intermezzo in A Minor, Op. 118, No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QFFHqo7qEIntermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y4Iz9Y47Xo
Ballade in G Minor, Op. 118, No. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qlrYcZQoIs
Intermezzo in F Minor, Op. 118, No. 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XrHnKRcGxA
Romance in F Major, Op. 118, No. 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvXmwNwXHK0
Intermezzo in E-flat Minor, Op. 118, No. 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndLtJe9CqICheers |
If you want the greatest Handel Variations go for Arrau in the Phillips Brahms box
Thanks, I will look for it. Cheers |
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