Baby Wants the Best Piano SoundPlaying EVER!!! Music Unimportant...

[snyprrr]

I'm talking things like Pogo's Ravel, Kocsis Debussy/Bartok, ah, that Philips Piano Sound!...

I just heard some of Weissenberg's Debussy,... seems to be in this category...

Beroff's Messiaen... Debussy, for that matter...



I can't take Great Playing in Bad Sound,... or Bad Playing with Great Sound (though, I can sometimes live with it)...

CRITIQUE AWAY- Positive, or Negative, please just regale with your Best/Worst Audiophile Piano

[aukhawk]

Two or three fairly recent issues spring to mind, but I'll go with ...

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[Mirror Image]

Silvestrov's piano music should be just the thing. I'm thinking, in particular, of this disc:

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[Mandryka]

I hope you have a good hifi, if you're listening through your phone or similar it's another matter.


Hinrichs, the one that Todd likes, some Bingen transcriptions, is special for sound, not truthful, too close, but special. It's worth hearing for the sound of the piano, you may enjoy it. It's only really for people who really get off on the sound of a big modern piano - I can't handle it myself. Michel Block's Liszt, which is another one that Todd likes, is a similar sound, maybe not as hardcore Steinway fetisch orgasm aids.

Voodos's Brahms is one that comes to mind as being nicely recorded, I listened to it a couple of weeks ago. Also exceptional, and this time it's a performance I like, is on DVD - some Beethoven from Arrau on a label called Classic Archive. Generally Arrau was well recorded, check his late Schubert for example.  And check some David Fray too, he's been well recorded, Schubert sonatas.

There are some Feldman things too, let me know if you're interested and I'll check. And some Chopin, on fortepiano, that are beautifully recorded.

I remember thinking that the last couple of Pollini things - Chopin late works and Debussy preludes II , sounded rather  truthful, I'd need to check to be sure.

Less ravishing, seductive, but I'd say more truthful, more like really having a piano in the room, is  Hardy Rittner's Schoenberg.

[snyprrr]

I hope you have a good hifi, if you're listening through your phone or similar it's another matter.


Hinrichs, the one that Todd likes, some Bingen transcriptions, is special for sound, not truthful, too close, but special. It's worth hearing for the sound of the piano, you may enjoy it. It's only really for people who really get off on the sound of a big modern piano - I can't handle it myself. Michel Block's Liszt, which is another one that Todd likes, is a similar sound, maybe not as hardcore Steinway fetisch orgasm aids.

Voodos's Brahms is one that comes to mind as being nicely recorded, I listened to it a couple of weeks ago. Also exceptional, and this time it's a performance I like, is on DVD - some Beethoven from Arrau on a label called Classic Archive. Generally Arrau was well recorded, check his late Schubert for example.  And check some David Fray too, he's been well recorded, Schubert sonatas.

There are some Feldman things too, let me know if you're interested and I'll check. And some Chopin, on fortepiano, that are beautifully recorded.

I remember thinking that the last couple of Pollini things - Chopin late works and Debussy preludes II , sounded rather  truthful, I'd need to check to be sure.

Less ravishing, seductive, but I'd say more truthful, more like really having a piano in the room, is  Hardy Rittner's Schoenberg.

Just the kind of Post I was looking for. Your Volodos/Brahms immediately caught my eye- his SONY Liszt has a great recorded piano image.

And yes,... curious about this like Pollini,... always going to be some piano "sound" going on there.



ahhhh, piano timbre, sumptuously recorded, immaculately played,... tinkle tinkle indeed!!!

[Mandryka]

Just remembered this



I wonder who engineered this one, because whoever it was was very talented. It would be good to know if s/he did anything else.

And this, which is possibly the best sounding modern piano op 106 I can remember, though I expect there are well produced recordings in some sets.