Clifford Curzon

Started by George, June 26, 2023, 03:30:11 PM

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Quote from: Mandryka on July 01, 2023, 10:32:32 AMCurzon could do passionate. I mean, in terms of passion in performance, the Liszt Sonata here doesn't have anything to blush about next to the likes of Argerich, Richter, Sofronitsky, Arrau. It's just that very often the muse let him down.



Yes indeed this is very good, free. If blind I would have listed a long list of pianists I thought this was before even entertaining Curzon. A shame about the poor recording quality. I listened to the studio recording on Decca after from a 1996 CD, this is not bad at all. But a bit of a low bar when the B minor Sonata, or as Arrau called it Beethoven's Piano Sonata 33  ;D , has such an exhaustive list of great recordings.