buxter66
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| Favorite recording of Brahms Op. 118 2 in A major Lupu's is excellent, but find he turns perfection of line and phrasing into a fetish, I miss the big picture, the big spirit of the piece. Any more?I have the Rubinstein which is very good, and Gieseking which is a bit disappointing- a little flat... | |
| Excellent recording of Mozart Jupiter No.41 ? megasam, have you heard the walter VPO Moz 41 on 78? this is where I find the magic. And I mean 78 on a Victrola. They play with such verve and elegance. To my ears it sounds like a brilliant chamber music collaboration, full of life and there is ... | |
| Late Beethoven Piano Sonatas I love Kempff, just haven't heard his late beethovens. | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. cpdunn, as for Serkin, you are probably referring to his recordings after he moved to the US. i.e. the beethovens with bernstein and nyphil, his beethoven sonatas... etc. etc. I find all of them lifeless and sterile. But... do you know his recordi... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. I heard pletnev on the radio playing Mozart 24(?) with a german chamber orchestra, I found it engaging and him a very good pianist. Bright and healthy in tone, beautiful slow movement, and made sense of the music. I was picking up my wife at the a... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. sorry, philips japanese bach is of georges enesco. | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Look, I have serious violinist/collector friends who Love Hillary Hahn. Rave about her. It's just my taste. I would start with the Szigeti Bach's, there is a Biddulph with a selection of his works, Bach, Bartok, Brahms, and something else, it's a ... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. I wnt to school with Akiko, I couldn't disagree more. Thin mechanical playing. completely passionless. | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Tweek, I can't believe you said that about her bach!!!!Believe me, I sooo wanted to love her Bach. And I'll grant that she really wanted to do something beyond the ordinary. You can hear that she did her "homework" listening to the old masters etc... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Different strokes. To me all I hear is notes from the great Gilels. and I was confused, do you mean to say that Tasmin Little and Josh Bell are in a higher league than Hahn??? We have very different ideas about what is a Musician or a Violinist. B... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Try Schnabel/Sargent/L.S.O., I have it on 78. I agree with Perahia recordings, always have a lowest common denominator feel to it(which is why the critics like it so much), and Bilson always sounds flat to me too.As for the Staier/concerto koln mo... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Tweekerman, if you don't believe that a pianist can play and conduct at the same time with good results... check out the Andreas Staier/ concerto Koln recording of Mozart concerti #'s 9 and 18. He is playing the fortepiano, and it has an "authenti... | |
| Used CDP under $1000? Capaudio is right. The Jolida jd-100 is hard to beat for a balance of musicality and detail. | |
| Excellent recording of Mozart Jupiter No.41 ? I've heard the Saraste Mozart, found them empty, thin, and lifeless. | |
| How do you find BEST classical recordings??? I'll check out the Frank recording, thanks for the tip. Sibelius is a deceptively difficult composer to get right, particularly in regards to color and spirit. I guess my true alltime fav of a sibelius recording would be the Ginette Neveu Sibelius... |