What are you listening 2 now?

[hopefullytrusting]

Is this with or without Schepkin? :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyHbXPNcDnAKE_AVoM2Bt7_OBuuTKQR3

And what about Hieyon Choi (integral released at least as download) ? :

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9768497--beethoven-complete-piano-sonatas

There are so many more that I've come across, but here is one that is very unique - the first "true" Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle that I've seen evidence of - all 32 in a row! @Todd (with intermissions edited out - I will spoil it - it isn't very good, but it is a feat!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2jpuXDHqso

[Todd]

There are so many more that I've come across, but here is one that is very unique - the first "true" Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle that I've seen evidence of - all 32 in a row! @Todd (with intermissions edited out - I will spoil it - it isn't very good, but it is a feat!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2jpuXDHqso

A Covid cycle.  And it's not awesome, you say?  Hmmm.

[prémont]

Per Kynne Frandsen plays the famous 1610 Compenius organ at Frederiksborg Slot

A classic since long in my country. I only wished that the programming had been more interesting.

[Todd]

[prémont]

LvB op. 54. Updated ranking after five more recordings. For the matter of simplicity I only list the ones I would like to revisit at some point.

1. Eduardo Del Pueyo/ Sergey Schepkin, can't choose between them
2. Tengku Irfan
3. Maroussa Gentet / Peter Bradley-Fulgoni
4. Michael Brown
4. Seokyoung Hong/ Drew Petersen
5. Nicholas Walker
6. Alexander Kobrin
7. Ronald Brautigam
8. Joel Schoenhals
9. Dawid Allen Wehr (eloquent and lyrical but I would prefer a little more drive in the Perpetuum Mobile)
10. Robert Maciejowski
11. Maia-Maria
12. Marta Czech
13. Tomer Kviatek
14. Matthew Edwards
15. Nicolas Namorade

[ritter]

The Quatuor Ludwig plays Arthur Honegger's three String Quartets, and is joined by soprano Fusako Kondo for Pâques à New York (to poems by Blaise Cendrars).

CD4 of this set:

[hopefullytrusting]

A Covid cycle.  And it's not awesome, you say?  Hmmm.

If he is to be believed, he learned 18 sonatas in 6 months - even if he is plinking along, but it is something that I would heartily award a pat on the shoulder. I do find it amazing he could do that - I'd rank him between Tier 3 and Tier 4, and, if he practiced more, he'd solidly be in Tier 3, which are all fine performances, in my opinion.

Need to clear my mind:

Feldman's String Quartet No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMUHVza-KA

[Todd]

If he is to be believed, he learned 18 sonatas in 6 months - even if he is plinking along, but it is something that I would heartily award a pat on the shoulder. I do find it amazing he could do that - I'd rank him between Tier 3 and Tier 4, and, if he practiced more, he'd solidly be in Tier 3, which are all fine performances, in my opinion.

Given the free time (ie, mandated lockdown time) he likely had, I can believe he learned eighteen sonatas in six months.  He appears young, so it is quite likely he can improve with time, provided this is what he wants to pursue.  On the face of it, I group this cycle with John Kane's - ie, an amateur pianist devoted enough to lay down the cycle.  That implies seriousness of purpose, which means there's no way it can be among the worst cycles out there.

[Karl Henning]

[Linz]

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in B Major
Japan Philharmonic, Pietari Inkinen

[ritter]

Pi-Hsien Chen and Ian Pace play Boulez (Structures, premier et deuxième livres) and Cage (Music for piano).

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Lina Jonson, Olivia Vermeulen, Matrin Platz, Manuel Walser
La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Le Concert Des Nations. Jordi Savall

[SonicMan46]

Well after a long hiatus, listening to two of my four (others are Annie Fischer & Friedrich Gulda on Amadeo) Beethoven Keyboard Sonatas today - Wilhelm Kempff (mono) and Ronald Brautigam on fortepianos (3 Paul McNulty replicas from periods that match of dates of the compositions).  Dave

 

[hopefullytrusting]

My only 22s for the weekend:

Tatiana Kolesova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0cdckvHgk
Elia Cecino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgVCLQSQFiI
Lou Mac Ott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_kSRsgNYg
Jurica Murai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6CKbPF-mU

[Linz]

Anton Rruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major "Romantische", 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester; Alan Gilbert

[hopefullytrusting]

The tier list:
Tier 1
Brautigam, Kobrin, Del Pueyo, Schepkin, Schoenhals
Tier 2
Ott, Sasko, Edwards, Maia-Maria, Bradley-Fulgoni, Gentet, Irfan
Tier 3
Kolesova, Xu, He, Solomon, Wehr, Andsnes, Buchbinder, Namoradze, Cecino, Ishii, Murai, Mogilevsky, Petersen, Walker, Hong, Brown, Sango, Kviatek, Villar, Frolova, Czech
Tier 4
Wambolt Maciejowski, Muller
Tier 5
Jank (Bad transfer), Sanna (Insanity), Sang-moon (Disqualified)

And, now, a Beethoven Break until Monday morn:



My last classical for this weekend - need to give my brain a rest, lol.

[ritter]

Listening to this recent purchase...

This intelligently and symmetrically programmed CD by Javier Perianes, Josep Pons and the Orchestre de Paris presents (in this order) Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version), Le Tombeau de Couperin (solo piano), the Piano Concerto in G major, Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestra), and Alborada del gracioso (solo piano).

[Linz]

Antonin Dvořák Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 13
Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76
Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner

[prémont]

The tier list:
Tier 1
Brautigam, Kobrin, Del Pueyo, Schepkin, Schoenhals
Tier 2
Ott, Sasko, Edwards, Maia-Maria, Bradley-Fulgoni, Gentet, Irfan
Tier 3
Kolesova, Xu, He, Solomon, Wehr, Andsnes, Buchbinder, Namoradze, Cecino, Ishii, Murai, Mogilevsky, Petersen, Walker, Hong, Brown, Sango, Kviatek, Villar, Frolova, Czech
Tier 4
Wambolt Maciejowski, Muller
Tier 5
Jank (Bad transfer), Sanna (Insanity), Sang-moon (Disqualified)

And, now, a Beethoven Break until Monday morn:

Yes, I understand you well, but still I try to follow you the best I can.

So my updated ranking after four more recordings:

1. Eduardo Del Pueyo/ Sergey Schepkin, can't choose between them
2. Evgeny Mogilevsky
3. Tengku Irfan
4. Polina Sasko
5. Maroussa Gentet / Peter Bradley-Fulgoni
6. Michael Brown (very poetic)
8. Seokyoung Hong/ Drew Petersen
9. Nicholas Walker
10. Haonan Xu ( some wrong notes but a beautiful artistic vision)
11. Alexander Kobrin
12. Ronald Brautigam (leaves me for some reason rather cold)
13. Fuko Ishii (brilliant but somewhat self-indulgent)
14. Joel Schoenhals
15. Dawid Allen Wehr (eloquent and lyrical but I would prefer a little more drive in the Perpetuum Mobile)
16. Robert Maciejowski
17. Maia-Maria
18. Marta Czech
19. Tomer Kviatek
20. Matthew Edwards
21. Nicolas Namorade

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies