jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados I must look that one up , it's the Marc-Andre Hamelin one I have. I must admit I find it heavy going like most of Busoni's original compositions. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears Yes I am glad you like her program she surely is a poet of the piano and with a fearless technique to boot. There certainly is no shortage now of young women who can keep up with and very often beat the men at their own game. Now I se... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Johnathan I see you are a fan of Uchida and yes she is great in Mozart but I remember the first concert of hers I attended, it was Mozart piano sonatas in the first half and Schubert impromptus and the little A Major sonata in the sec... | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? I really like a version of the Mahler 9th conducted by Blomstedt but it is not comercially available as I recorded it form a BBC Radio 3 broadcast and to me it is devine with all I ever want from a Mahler symphony , it has wonderful dynamics , ext... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears You are absoloutely right about the exagerated width of th piano , I listen to more and more disks each year with severe perspective problems. I don't notice it too much on my setup as I use phones but I do when I go to my pals hou... | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? Although I can't say who has produced the best cycle because there are so many variables I have to agree with @schubert that every one of Fischer's efforts with the Budapest Orchestra is superb in sound and playing but there are many individual s... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Hi Len I'm afraid I have a block on Vaughan William's music. Every year when it comes to Proms time they trundle out that bloody Lark Ascending, I run for cover every time it is on. I can't even stand his symphonies now either. I do q... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy yes it was me who recommended Grosvenor, I think he is a very fine young pianist and he has a really bright future.I hope all my friends on Audiogon have a really lovely Christmas. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len, I am sorry for your friend my condolences to you , we are now losing friends and colleagues left right and centre as we get older and it is very sad. As to Harry Lauder , yes he was corny but he was a mainstay for ex pats in Canada and Ameri... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Jeremy I have just read your account of the Chopin Godowsky Studies. By not being up technically to Bolet's recordings do you mean Godowsky's technique or the technical imperfections of the recorded sound then. I have read of Bolet g... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV, I am so glad you are giving Liszt a try as he wrote ( in my opinion ) some of the most beautiful piano music of all time and yes he also wrote some bombastic show pieces to show off his technique. After all it was an age when everyone was vy... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Jeremy as you say "the real deal" and I was listening to BBC broadcasts of her in the seventies and eighties. A great tecnique and sumptuous tone. | |
| Is OPPO worth the inflated price? You can get a fabulous second hand audiophile player for that amount of cash. I know what I'd pick | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy I too like The Biret Schubert/Liszt transcriptions but have to say I love the Jorge Bollet ones even more ,he injects an old world charm to them but make no mistake he could always keep up with the big boys as his Earl King will testify. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi David you may like to try this one out it's from Benjamin Grosvenor and I say this as it is full of explosive Virtuosity and I find it very satisfying and it has some nice fill ups from Saint-Saens and Ravel. Grosvenor is a very young man but d... |