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Responses from rvpiano
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc geoffkait,gotcha. | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc Absolutely right. They’re not all created equal. | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc Harry James, yes.Wonderful! | |
| Best debut album Absolutely without a doubt:Glenn Gould — Goldberg Variations | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados So does mine! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Although Volodos may be my favorite among pianists performing today, i really don’t like his way with Brahms as represented in this album. He plays in a hushed, sort of reverential manner, eviscerating the bones of the music. It almost sounds im... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados New on Idagio: “Volodos Plays Brahms,” a disc from 2017.I’d be interested in opinions of his Brahms interpretations. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The particular disc of the “Dances” with great sound that I’m listening to is a Sony Essential Classics with music also by Smetana and Offenbach. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Newbee,Reference Recordings LP’s are fantastically good. I’ve just never had much luck in finding good sounding CDs, even though my player automatically reads their HDCD encoded discs. I’ll have to try your examples of good ones. I’ve noticed t... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I just rediscovered a wonderful version of the Symphonic Dances by an old colleague of Rachmaninoff’s: Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra.Really outstanding performance. Maybe my current favorite version.On my system, the sonics are m... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert,Yes, I believe the two greatest Rachmaninoff conductors today are Pletnev and Ashkenazy, both extraordinary pianists as well. (Although Ashkenazy just retired.) | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The works are the 11th and 12th Piano Concertos. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados A recording on Idagio inspired the above post:Alexander Schimpf with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie.Although it’s a version without winds (Mozart’s original draft,) the genius of invention still shines through. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados A lifetime project of mine, consciously started as a teenager, is baring fruits now in my advanced years. I determined quite early that Mozart’s piano concertos were too precious to spoil by listenIng to them too often. Hence, throughout my life... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados apm18,I agree with you that the Johanos recording is very dry and somewhat sterile. I must admit that I recommended it on the basis of this being an audiophile site. That particular disc has really excellent sonics. Performance-wise there are ma... |