soulpope Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 Do really appreciate the late work of Otto Klemperer and this Bruckner 4 "live" performance from April 1st, 1966 @ Herkulessaal, München is no exception ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 Another pearl on the crown of Naxos .... do really wonder, why this superb platter remained the only appearance of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra within their Haydn Symphonies series .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 Recorded in October 1992 .... the third istallment from Harmonia Mundi`s Haydn Piano Trios project .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 Alexandre Kantorow plays Schubert Wanderer Fantasie "live" @ Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin on May 1st, 2023 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 Now playing: Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 / Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra (Sony) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 39 minutes ago, HutchFan said: Now playing: Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 / Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra (Sony) Terrific .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 2, Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 6 Auryn Quartet (Tacet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Ivo Pogorelich plays Haydn Hob 46 "live" in the early 1990's .... faster paced, but what a dance .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Sviatoslav Richter plays Haydn Hob 46 "live" @ Schliersee in 1991 .... the dance is still on, but a different insight and wisdom .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Referentzhunter Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 John Dowland, vol. 1 11 hours ago, HutchFan said: Now playing: Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 / Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra (Sony) 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said: John Dowland, vol. 1 Very good 👍 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Referentzhunter Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 (edited) 7 minutes ago, soulpope said: Very good 👍 .... Calming and meditative... this is a must-have for you (if i may say so) ! Fantastic sound quality also. Edited January 18 by Referentzhunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 24 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said: Calming and meditative... this is a must-have for you (if i may say so) ! Fantastic sound quality also. Agreed on all accounts .... btw got this one 😇😁 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 Obviously the whole career of Sviatoslv Richter was wondrous, but i do prefer his later recordings where his incredible technical furor has been partially suplanted by slowed down and pensive readings .... and this approach suits well with Haydn sonatas .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 As good as it gets .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 A concert which changed his public perception .... and considered by Jorge Bolet as highlight of his career .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 The sonatas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HutchFan Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 13 minutes ago, soulpope said: A concert which changed his public perception .... and considered by Jorge Bolet as highlight of his career .... In what sense, soulpope? Did the concert & recording create a big splash -- and lead to him becoming more well-known & highly regarded? 3 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said: What do you think of this album, Peter? I always enjoy Vásáry's playing. So soulful and poetic. But I was unaware that he'd recorded for Collins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 32 minutes ago, HutchFan said: I What do you think of this album, Peter? I always enjoy Vásáry's playing. So soulful and poetic. But I was unaware that he'd recorded for Collins. HutchFan, I just discovered that Mozart Piano Concerto recording for Collins. You said it all when you described Vasary's playing as "soulful and poetic". That comes through very very well on the 2 Mozart Piano Concertos on the Collins label Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 40 minutes ago, HutchFan said: In what sense, soulpope? Did the concert & recording create a big splash -- and lead to him becoming more well-known & highly regarded? His career never really took off and when he was finally signed by RCA in 1972 and a master-tape of works by Liszt was made but not issued. The tape languished on the shelf for thirty years and was finally issued on CD in 2001 by RCA as "Bolet Rediscovered" (btw a "must have") .... Jorge Bolet - who was already 60 years (!!) at that time - said much later about the Carnegie Hall Concert " I hate to hear myself play, and up till now, there's been only one recording I can stand—and that comes from a 1974 Carnegie Hall recital which RCA put out." Critic Eric Salzman wrote about the released Concert : 'I don't know about you, but much as I like tramping off to unusual places for unusual experiences, I wouldn't normally walk across the street to hear anyone play a piano transcription of Wagner's Tannhauser Overture - unless . . . unless perhaps the player were Liszt himself playing his own arrangement. Well, Jorge Bolet is not Liszt, but he is about as close as you can come these days, and you can hear him playing the bejeezuz out of that transcription in your own living room on a new RCA recording.' Of the Chopin Preludes: 'There was no hyphen involved in these, but the program might just as well have read "Chopin-Bolet", for he takes every possible expressive liberty, playing off the beat, sustaining tones, arpeggiating chords, creating new lines and cross -rhythms, playing fast and free with the tempos, even changing the text here and there. Yet all of it has such authority and sensibility of touch, nuance, color, line, and phrase that one ends up agreeing with Bolet and not the dry-bone notes of the printed music! He re-creates it all afresh.' Concerning the Viennese waltzes: 'In a way, it's a pity that so much skill - and I mean musicality, sensitivity, swiftness, sureness, taste, and communicativeness, not mere facility - is tossed away so lightly, so prodigally, on so many soap bubbles.' Subsequently to this sensational concert it took anothe two years before producer Peter Wadland persuaded Ray Ware (of the L'Oiseau-Lyre/ DECCA label) to meet Jorge Bolet. His reminiscences : "Jorge Bolet had given a recital the day before the sessions, Sunday, 2 October 1977" Wadland picks up the story. ‘I remember the Queen Elizabeth Hall being almost empty, with perhaps as few as 200 people there (after all there had been no publicity) but when it came to the end there was a standing ovation— not only from the audience but also from all the critics—something I have never witnessed before or since. I persuaded Ray Ware, then Label Manager of L'Oiseau-Lyre to meet Jorge and myself for lunch. I was surprised that Jorge seemed slightly mistrustful of our intentions. He had, after all, not had wonderful experiences with record companies. Finally I was able to persuade him to make this record for L'Oiseau-Lyre, and the sessions took place on October 3rd and 4th, 1977, at Kingsway Hall." But it took another four years (during which he toured recurringly) before Jorge Bolet started recording for Decca on ongoing bases from 1981 onwards .... btw unfortunatey the artist became seriously lill and the recordings from the later 80`s suffer from that fact .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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