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| Classical Music for Aficionados Has anyone listened to Derzhavina playing Haydn Piano sonatas yet as I did yesterday and have to say I enjoyed them very much. She has a brilliant tecnique and she brings out the quirkiness of Haydn's writing. I don't know if anyone else will ag... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have just had a look at my previous post and will you please forgive those awful spelling mistakes as i usually look at and correct before I post but my wife called me and I had to obey !!!This gives me a chance though to say something about Ek... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I used to really like Gavrilov ,I have the two cd copy of his and Richters Handel keyboard suites. Why does R ichter start the Harmonious Blacksmith Variations with such a long note ? I find it most unsettling. I am going to linvestigate Ekaterin... | |
| Anyone compared Sennheiser HD800 S with Beyerdynamic T1.1? Have you ever thought that what you want in a headset amounts to heavy colouration and not what the maker designed them for which is to provide a very clean uncoloured sound . I have a pair of 800s but have to say they don't open up until they hav... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados JC That was a very interesting article about Richter you posted , he was a very cultured man. As for his pianism although he was a stupendous pianist the recordings that were released were really poor and didn't really do justice to him. I reall... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I love Pletnev's playing of The Seasons , that is my reference but have any of you ever listened to his Schumann. I love him playing Etudes Symphonique and his Fantasy in C major, I find his tone much more pleasing than most of the others with the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Just been browsing on Idagio and came across a compilation entitled The Art of Maurizio Pollini and the first three tracks are Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka. I have never heard them played so well and they are generally avoided by pi... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados JC I heartily agree with your sentiments regarding Gould, I too favour Koroliov in Bach especially his Goldbergs which are the equal of Gould's technically and outshine Gould on a spiritual level. I urge anyone who has not heard them to seek the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jc Hi JC, Yes the Decca recording you have is the one I was talking about and you can tell from his playing that he had a rare pedigree withbeautiful filigree playing of those transcriptions. He knew so many of the old school players like Rac... | |
| Spotify for classical music lovers I have given up Qobuz because on my computer it had numerous faults the most annoying was that when listening to say a symphony that had four or more movements it would jump from say the first to the third then go back to the second and then maybe... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador J, Thanks so much for the link for Berman's video it was a revelation to me. Have you seen the virtuosity he exhibits in works like the Mephisto Waltz the fingers were flying on those double octaves and chords. It is a crying shame ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados JCI would love you to send me that link thank you. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears Yes Bolet was another Titan of the keyboard , I will always remember a fabulous Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto from him in the City halls in Glasgow and after it he came back on and his encore was the Bach / Busoni chaconne, it b... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I some time ago listened to and read about Nyiregyhazy and came to the conclusion of are we talking about the same person here, because the Nyiregyhazy portrayed here and the one I listened to were totally different. I came to the conclusion t... | |
| can a spectrogram like spec be trusted Quite frankly who is going to care very much unless you are going to entertain the bats. It's all relative after 20k. |