What Pogo to purchase?

[Coopmv]

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Yes.  I'm a member of the Museum and usually subscribe to a number of their concerts.  I don't recall if it was last season or perhaps (senior moment) the previous season.  I'm sure if you google "Pogorelich NY Metropolitan Museum" you will come up with the details or if you are lucky a review.

I used to be an associate member of the Mets (the museum, not the opera).  However, I don't think there was much of any member discount for season's tickets.  One of the best concerts I ever attended there was the concert given by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert in the mid 80's.  Pinnock even verbally introduced every work that was to be performed that evening ...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a DG Pogorelich box.

[Coopmv]

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a DG Pogorelich box.

How many recordings has Pogo made with DG anyway?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

How many recordings has Pogo made with DG anyway?

I have about a half-dozen CDs myself. And there are several more.

[Coopmv]

I have about a half-dozen CDs myself. And there are several more.

I only have two; Bach and Scarlatti.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I only have two; Bach and Scarlatti.

His Scarlatti disc is wonderful. As is his Pictures recording (though I sympathize with nut-job's criticism).

If I had to choose a favorite Pogo disc it'd probably be his Chopin second PC disc. Wonderful energy.

Others I'm still undecided about. But I'm optimistic.

[Mandryka]

If I had to choose a favorite Pogo disc it'd probably be his Chopin second PC disc. Wonderful energy.

Mine would be the Brahms and the Castello Reale Di Racconi DVD

There are rumours that he's ill -- maybe that explains why the New York concert was a dud. It's true that all the reviews of his New York museum concert a couple of years ago that I can find on the web are uniformly bad. It reminds me of the reviews I've seen of Natan Brand playing, or Pletnev doing Chopin Etudes in Amsterdam. Or maybe the first performance of The Rite of Spring or Eroica 

They're so bad I really wish I could have been there!

Does anyone know how to get bootlegs of his Carnegie Hall recital -- the one where he plays this extraordinary Islamey?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cepieLOSu24

[Bunny]

I used to be an associate member of the Mets (the museum, not the opera).  However, I don't think there was much of any member discount for season's tickets.  One of the best concerts I ever attended there was the concert given by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert in the mid 80's.  Pinnock even verbally introduced every work that was to be performed that evening ...

While it's true that there is very little discount, try getting the tickets if you aren't a member!  The concert tickets are offered to members a year ahead and the good concerts sell out very fast. 

[Bunny]

Mine would be the Brahms and the Castello Reale Di Racconi DVD

There are rumours that he's ill -- maybe that explains why the New York concert was a dud. It's true that all the reviews of his New York museum concert a couple of years ago that I can find on the web are uniformly bad. It reminds me of the reviews I've seen of Natan Brand playing, or Pletnev doing Chopin Etudes in Amsterdam. Or maybe the first performance of The Rite of Spring or Eroica 

They're so bad I really wish I could have been there!

Does anyone know how to get bootlegs of his Carnegie Hall recital -- the one where he plays this extraordinary Islamey?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cepieLOSu24

He didn't look ill at the concert and I didn't hear that he had been ill.  I didn't bother to read the reviews, the less I dwelled on the experience the better.  Now, I'll work on forgetting it again.  I was very, very disappointed and I suppose the knowledge of how wonderful he should have been made it all the worse.

[Coopmv]

While it's true that there is very little discount, try getting the tickets if you aren't a member!  The concert tickets are offered to members a year ahead and the good concerts sell out very fast. 

I am old enough to conclude that the golden days of concert going were in the 80's when I was able to attend Concerts at the Met given by the English Concert and Trevor Pinnock, at Carnegie Hall by the ASMIF and Iona Brown, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Karl Munchinger, at Avery Fisher Hall by John Eliot Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir.  I attended concerts given by the I Solisti Veneti and Claudio Scimone as well as the Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi at the Mostly Mozart Festival in 99 or 2000.  These days, there are no longer any orchestras/conductors that truly excite me.  I attended some concerts given by Kurt Masur and Colin Davis during the past ten years but neither is young any more.  These days, listening to my fairly decent sized classical music collection is my only ticket to good music.  I guess I will still go for some piano concerts because there are still a number of concert pianists whose performance I care to attend.  The options are clearly very limited.

[Mandryka]

 

I am old enough to conclude that the golden days of concert going were in the 80's when I was able to attend Concerts at the Met given by the English Concert and Trevor Pinnock, at Carnegie Hall by the ASMIF and Iona Brown, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Karl Munchinger, at Avery Fisher Hall by John Eliot Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir.  I attended concerts given by the I Solisti Veneti and Claudio Scimone as well as the Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi at the Mostly Mozart Festival in 99 or 2000.  These days, there are no longer any orchestras/conductors that truly excite me.  I attended some concerts given by Kurt Masur and Colin Davis during the past ten years but neither is young any more.  These days, listening to my fairly decent sized classical music collection is my only ticket to good music.  I guess I will still go for some piano concerts because there are still a number of concert pianists whose performance I care to attend.  The options are clearly very limited.

I think you're probably right. There are some pianists I would go out of my way to hear. And there are some Baroque groups -- Minkowsky and Haim for example, who maybe are worth the price of the ticket and Gardiner's choral performances  seem to me to be getting better and better -- but the tickets cost and arm and a leg.

But orchestras -- the Lucerne with Abbado is about the only one. And there are some younger conductors worth catching -- Daniel Harding for example. Baranboim's East/West Divan seems more worthy and noble than great music making.

I really don't care for Rattle or Gergev enough to pay the high ticket prices. Mackerras and Colin Davies  are good I think -- but they are old men now.

I'd like to hear Runnicles more -- he rarely plays here in the UK.

[Coopmv]

I really don't care for Rattle or Gergev enough to pay the high ticket prices. Mackerras and Colin Davies  are good I think -- but they are old men now.

My two biggest regrets are I never had the chance to attend performances by either Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic or Christopher Hogwood with the ORIGINAL Academy of Ancient Music.   

[Mandryka]

   

My two biggest regrets are I never had the chance to attend performances by either Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic or Christopher Hogwood with the ORIGINAL Academy of Ancient Music.   

So did you see Furtwangler -- or are you too young?

[George]

So did you see Furtwangler -- or are you too young?

Wow, how cool would that be? 

BTW, you have a few messages. 

[Coopmv]

So did you see Furtwangler -- or are you too young?

I was not born yet when he was around ...

[George]

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a DG Pogorelich box.

Me too. Anyone hear any buzz about this?