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Drasko

#3140
February 10, 2009, 01:48:48 AM
Quote from: jlaurson on February 09, 2009, 09:59:51 AM
I thought I could masque the absence of essence with an extra of exuberance.

Who needs an essence with all this Exuberance Alliterated (wow, that sounds almost as good as Prometheus Unbound).

I'd be buying that set even without all the Exuberance Expressed. I'm slowly getting into french baroque viol music, having already Marais 4th Book by Savall and Pandolfo's Forqueray pere this set will nicely round up starters kit.

jlaurson

#3141
February 10, 2009, 01:54:01 AM
Quote from: Drasko on February 10, 2009, 01:48:48 AM
I'd be buying that set even without all the Exuberance Expressed.

Wait... so we, horribly, have alliterated all in incredibly vapid vain???

Drasko

#3142
February 10, 2009, 02:01:39 AM
Quote from: jlaurson on February 10, 2009, 01:54:01 AM
Wait... so we, horribly, have alliterated all in incredibly vapid vain???

Well... look at it from the bright side... at least no essence was wasted.

DavidRoss

#3143
February 10, 2009, 03:53:40 AM
Quote from: Drasko on February 10, 2009, 02:01:39 AM
Well... look at it from the bright side... at least no essence was wasted.



Are all your vital bodily fluids intact?
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Renfield

#3144
February 10, 2009, 04:49:18 AM
Quote from: jlaurson on February 10, 2009, 12:35:54 AM
AAArgh.... am again aggravated by bumbling, blistering brainiac bastard. Crimminy.  ;)


Quote from: DavidRoss on February 10, 2009, 03:53:40 AM


Are all your vital bodily fluids intact?


;)

Dancing Divertimentian

#3145
February 10, 2009, 04:49:48 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on February 10, 2009, 03:53:40 AM
Are all your vital bodily fluids intact?

Nice. 8) Only it needs the right general:




Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

DavidRoss

#3146
February 11, 2009, 05:04:27 AM Last Edit: February 11, 2009, 05:12:11 AM by DavidRoss
Quote from: donwyn on February 10, 2009, 04:49:48 PM
Nice. 8) Only it needs the right general

I stand corrected!   8)

How 'bout, after they mistakenly start the nuclear holocaust: "Well, Mr. President, it's not fair to condemn the whole program just because of one slip up, is it?"

P.S. Thanks for the reminder about the Mullova Brahms 2-fer, Don.  I downloaded the VC a couple of years ago and liked it, have been meaning to buy the CD so I just did!
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

rubio

#3147
February 11, 2009, 10:18:29 AM
Anybody who knows how Annie performs the Schubert D960 and the Liszt B minor?

"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley

George

#3148
February 11, 2009, 10:51:28 AM
Quote from: rubio on February 11, 2009, 10:18:29 AM
Anybody who knows how Annie performs the Schubert D960 and the Liszt B minor?



I can get back to you about it, I got that one last year and haven't sat down and listened to it yet.

rubio

#3149
February 11, 2009, 11:13:07 AM
Quote from: George on February 11, 2009, 10:51:28 AM
I can get back to you about it, I got that one last year and haven't sat down and listened to it yet.

That sounds good! And while I'm at it - have you heard these ones by Serkin?

   

I'm listening to his M&A Beethoven piano sonata set, and I'm stunned :o. This Beethoven playing hit all my weak spots.
"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley

Drasko

#3150
February 11, 2009, 01:24:15 PM
Quote from: donwyn on February 06, 2009, 09:55:52 PM
Michelangeli on Music & Arts.

Beethoven piano sonatas Op.22 (11/11/78, Paris) and Op.26 (4/13/82, London).

Chopin 2nd piano sonata (10/29/73, Tokyo).




In all this exuberance of bodily fluids missed this somehow. Don't know about Music & Arts transfer but I do have that Beethoven op.26 (BBC Legengs) and Tokyo Chopin op.35 (Tokyo FM) and both are in very good sound. As for performances I'm very, very fond of Beethoven, it has this somewhat hard to describe sense of defiance in funeral march that always sounded more heroic than funereal to me. Chopin is also very good, bit on cooler end of Michelangeli's spectrum but I do find in it some cold intensity (sidoze found it to cold for his taste). Not familiar with Beethoven op.22 from Paris.   

George

#3151
February 11, 2009, 02:11:42 PM
Quote from: rubio on February 11, 2009, 11:13:07 AM
That sounds good! And while I'm at it - have you heard these ones by Serkin?

   

I'm listening to his M&A Beethoven piano sonata set, and I'm stunned :o. This Beethoven playing hit all my weak spots.

Yep, that Waldstein is phenomenal. I'd get the mono LvB Serkin CD from the above Sony set. His Schubert rubbed me the wrong way at first, I only have the one with D 959. I listened again recently and liked it more.

For Serkin, I enthusiastically recommend the Mendelssohn Concerti with Ormandy and chamber work with the Busch quartet.

All of his Beethoven is recommendable, but the earlier the better I have found.

George

#3152
February 11, 2009, 04:45:08 PM
Quote from: rubio on February 11, 2009, 10:18:29 AM
Anybody who knows how Annie performs the Schubert D960 and the Liszt B minor?



The Schubert on there is from 1968. It is OK, but nothing special IMO. The Liszt is from earlier in 1953 and after a few minutes of listening to it, I can say that this is an Annie Fischer CD you can pass on.

I like her Schumann and certainly her Beethoven, but outside of these two composers, she hasn't really wowed me. 

Dancing Divertimentian

#3153
February 11, 2009, 06:24:02 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on February 11, 2009, 05:04:27 AM
How 'bout, after they mistakenly start the nuclear holocaust: "Well, Mr. President, it's not fair to condemn the whole program just because of one slip up, is it?"

Yeah, the irony there is delicious! ;D ;D ;D

One more: "There's no fighting in the war room!!!" 8)

QuoteP.S. Thanks for the reminder about the Mullova Brahms 2-fer, Don.  I downloaded the VC a couple of years ago and liked it, have been meaning to buy the CD so I just did!

Great! Hope you like the VSs.
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

mahler10th

#3154
February 11, 2009, 06:35:19 PM
I am considering buying a Liszt Piano Concerto, but I don't know what it is.  It was referred to on radio as 'the famous one' - but what is his famous one?

Dancing Divertimentian

#3155
February 11, 2009, 06:37:05 PM
Quote from: Drasko on February 11, 2009, 01:24:15 PM
In all this exuberance of bodily fluids missed this somehow.

Don't get us started on bodily fluids.

QuoteDon't know about Music & Arts transfer but I do have that Beethoven op.26 (BBC Legengs) and Tokyo Chopin op.35 (Tokyo FM) and both are in very good sound. As for performances I'm very, very fond of Beethoven, it has this somewhat hard to describe sense of defiance in funeral march that always sounded more heroic than funereal to me. Chopin is also very good, bit on cooler end of Michelangeli's spectrum but I do find in it some cold intensity (sidoze found it to cold for his taste). Not familiar with Beethoven op.22 from Paris.   

Thanks for the info, Drasko.
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

jwinter

#3156
February 11, 2009, 06:48:43 PM
Quote from: mahler10th on February 11, 2009, 06:35:19 PM
I am considering buying a Liszt Piano Concerto, but I don't know what it is.  It was referred to on radio as 'the famous one' - but what is his famous one?

His 2 piano concertos are frequently coupled together.  Both of these CDs are less than $10, and are pretty safe bets IMO (hard to go wrong with Richter or Cziffra).  The Cziffra also has Totentanz, which also might be what they were referring to:

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Dancing Divertimentian

#3157
February 11, 2009, 06:49:56 PM
Quote from: mahler10th on February 11, 2009, 06:35:19 PM
I am considering buying a Liszt Piano Concerto, but I don't know what it is.  It was referred to on radio as 'the famous one' - but what is his famous one?

There are only two Liszt PCs in the main repertory. A third PC recently discovered isn't well known and IIRC not up to the other two. But what the announcer is referring to I don't know.

Usually the two PCs are packaged on a single disc so if you're looking to buy just one you end up with both anyway.
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

jlaurson

#3158
February 11, 2009, 07:00:19 PM Last Edit: February 12, 2009, 05:59:49 AM by jlaurson
Quote from: mahler10th on February 11, 2009, 06:35:19 PM
I am considering buying a Liszt Piano Concerto, but I don't know what it is.  It was referred to on radio as 'the famous one' - but what is his famous one?

I find these two recordings to be very good, indeed:



Liszt, Piano Concertos, Ozawa/Zimerman

and



Liszt, Piano Concertos, Plasson/Freire

(Better still, for being complete-complete and dirt cheap.

Coopmv

#3159
February 11, 2009, 07:21:46 PM
Looks like the new Helene Grimaud's Bach keyboard works recorded on DG do not have the greatest reception, albeit from only two reviews ...

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Keyboard-Concerto-Pieces-Limited/dp/B001D0RRXE/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_c
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