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[Mandryka]

I'll see whether or not I can find some of his performances on youtube...thanks!

K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uI5EiDs5-0

[Mandryka]

[Mandryka]

I can't find any details about the organs.

[Que]

I can't find any details about the organs.

I attended one of his concerts (of harpsichord pieces) of the complete keyboard cycle at the Early Music Festival in Utrecht last September. He is good. His approach is imaginative and virtuosic, focused on the unexpected turns and twists and moment of stillness and introspection.

[Brian]

This is only 48 minutes.

Track order:

Op. 119 Nos 1 and 3
Op. 118 Nos 1 and 2
Op. 116 Nos 2-5
Op. 117 No 3
Op. 119 No 4
Op. 117 No 2
Op. 118 No 6

No Op. 116 Nos 1, 6, 7; Op. 117 No 1; Op. 118 Nos 3-5; Op. 119 No 2



Fanny Mendelssohn - Capriccio in B minor; Das Jahr (four months)
Amy Beach - Fantasia Fugata; Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother; Four Sketches
Clara Schumann - four miniatures plus the slow movement only from the Piano Concerto, with Tristan Cornut, cello
Florence Price - Fantasie Negre No 2; four more miniatures

[Madiel]

This is only 48 minutes.

Track order:

Op. 119 Nos 1 and 3
Op. 118 Nos 1 and 2
Op. 116 Nos 2-5
Op. 117 No 3
Op. 119 No 4
Op. 117 No 2
Op. 118 No 6

No Op. 116 Nos 1, 6, 7; Op. 117 No 1; Op. 118 Nos 3-5; Op. 119 No 2

He's playing this stuff live in Canberra next week...

[Kalevala]

This is only 48 minutes.

Track order:

Op. 119 Nos 1 and 3
Op. 118 Nos 1 and 2
Op. 116 Nos 2-5
Op. 117 No 3
Op. 119 No 4
Op. 117 No 2
Op. 118 No 6

No Op. 116 Nos 1, 6, 7; Op. 117 No 1; Op. 118 Nos 3-5; Op. 119 No 2

Only 48 minutes?   

K

[Mandryka]

Only 48 minutes?   

K

I think it's a good thing. After all, the market of people who actually buy the product in any form, rather than stream it, is probably miniscule. And if you stream, it really doesn't matter to you how long the release is. The alternative would be to beef it up with stuff, but maybe he isn't ready to release anything else.  Better to have 48 minutes of performances he's comfortable with than nothing.

[Brian]

I figure Mandryka must be right and those must be the works he feels most comfortable and connected with ... But then I look at my shelf where the Stephen Hough album is excellent and has all of Opp. 116-119 complete...

I would absolutely go see him live though! My only live experience with him was a Mozart concerto when I was only 13 or so years old.

[Todd]

Better to have 48 minutes of performances he's comfortable with than nothing.

Arcadi Volodos' Brahms recording is scantly longer in duration.  Pogorelich's Chopin Scherzi recording is also very brief.  If Anderszewski's Brahms is of similar quality to those recordings, brevity will matter not a whit.  And as you correctly point out, in the era of streaming, it doesn't matter anyway.

[Mandryka]

I figure Mandryka must be right and those must be the works he feels most comfortable and connected with ... But then I look at my shelf where the Stephen Hough album is excellent and has all of Opp. 116-119 complete...

I would absolutely go see him live though! My only live experience with him was a Mozart concerto when I was only 13 or so years old.

His Diabelli Variations was possibly the most impressive piano concert I've been to -- when he's in the mood he can really drive a Steinway, the colours!

[Mandryka]

Pogorelich's Chopin Scherzi recording is also very brief. 

I remember when that was released, he was interviewed by a friend of mine for the BBC, and he made a negative comment about the length. Pogorelich was furious with him, and withering in his reply. Basically he said that what he releases is high art -- and to complain about the length is the height of vulgarity.

[Todd]

Basically he said that what he releases is high art -- and to complain about the length is the height of vulgarity.

Basically true.  Such complaints appeared in the CD era, when people got accustomed to sixty- to seventy-minute releases.  Though we are now a decade out from streaming overtaking CDs as the primary medium of music consumption, the complaint persists for some reason, at least in the classical field.

[prémont]

His Diabelli Variations was possibly the most impressive piano concert I've been to -- when he's in the mood he can really drive a Steinway, the colours!

Sounds like someone who ought to record op. 106.

[AnotherSpin]

I figure Mandryka must be right and those must be the works he feels most comfortable and connected with ... But then I look at my shelf where the Stephen Hough album is excellent and has all of Opp. 116-119 complete...

I would absolutely go see him live though! My only live experience with him was a Mozart concerto when I was only 13 or so years old.

I listened to Anderszewski with the Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra a few weeks before the war began.