Liszt PC's 1 & 2 CD recommendations

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Que

#20
December 19, 2007, 09:20:09 PM
Quote from: MichaelRabin on December 19, 2007, 01:06:15 PM
Sorry Que - but was busy & did not see the other forum thread buried deeper down the GMG forum. Any other input besides your "admiration for Richter than love" comment?

Ehhh, no. :)  Since I'm not familiar with other recordings.

Q

BorisG

#21
December 19, 2007, 09:34:37 PM
Cziffra, also Richter.

MichaelRabin

#22
December 20, 2007, 12:56:20 PM
Sorry - it is not the Greig PS but the Liszt PS that is Richter's coupling.

RWetmore

#23
January 19, 2008, 04:59:39 PM
Pennario/Leibowitz/London Symphony Orchestra is really great.

hautbois

#24
January 19, 2008, 06:06:52 PM Last Edit: January 19, 2008, 06:11:22 PM by hautbois

How about Ax/Salonen/Philharmonia on Sony? The 2 concertos are coupled together with the Schoenberg concerto as well so that makes it extremely appealing to me because i have never heard the piece before. I was quite impressed by Salonen's extremely precise and biting Rite of Spring with the same orchestra and label, and of course the top notch recording quality that has so much clarity doesn't hurt as well. Any ideas?

Howard

m_gigena

#25
January 19, 2008, 06:35:10 PM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on December 08, 2007, 04:00:14 PM
Thanks James; I'd read the Richter was a good one too  :)

This one is better. Live.

Holden

#26
January 20, 2008, 01:09:07 AM
Quote from: RWetmore on January 19, 2008, 04:59:39 PM
Pennario/Leibowitz/London Symphony Orchestra is really great.

Randall _ you're back! Good to hear from you.
Cheers

Holden

Sean

#27
January 20, 2008, 07:21:51 AM
I got to know these from a recording by a pianist called Dichter, which I still highly recommend. On CD I had Richter, which really is too subtle and understated for its own good in music that is basically joyful. Zimmerman is another committed and intelligent interpreter.

Dancing Divertimentian

#28
January 20, 2008, 07:41:02 AM Last Edit: January 20, 2008, 07:56:58 AM by donwyn
Quote from: Sean on January 20, 2008, 07:21:51 AM
On CD I had Richter, which really is too subtle and understated for its own good in music that is basically joyful.

It's all good and well not to like Richter's Liszt but to call him 'too subtle' misses the mark - for there is no more animated pianist out there!!

Richter typically goes in for being too excessive, too romantic, etc...NOT for being understated.

This has to be the first time I've ever heard him called out for his meekness (in Liszt)! ;D



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

Sean

#29
January 20, 2008, 08:05:52 AM
Check the recordings out. I think he misses the point of the music on this occasion, playing these works like the Benediction or such.

Dancing Divertimentian

#30
January 20, 2008, 08:20:07 AM
Quote from: Sean on January 20, 2008, 08:05:52 AM
Check the recordings out. I think he misses the point of the music on this occasion, playing these works like the Benediction or such.

If you're referring to the Philips recording, I've "checked it out" aplenty.

There's nothing undernourished about it. 8)

He's all a-crackle in his live Budapest #2 from 1961 as well! So........



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

anasazi

#31
January 21, 2008, 02:26:05 AM
Although I am not a big fan of Liszt's music (so I obviously cannot make close comparisons) I would think that Van Cliburn's 1960's era recordings are at least among the best.  Sound it pretty good analog from RCA and Liszt was one of Cliburn's favorite composers.

RebLem

#32
January 21, 2008, 01:55:18 PM
My faves are the ones by Samson Francois with Constantin Silvestri conducting.
"Don't drink and drive; you might spill it."--J. Eugene Baker, aka my late father.

Sergeant Rock

#33
January 23, 2008, 06:30:58 AM
I'm shocked, shocked, that no one has mentioned Lazar Berman's poetic performances with Giulini and the Vienna Symphony.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Solitary Wanderer

#34
January 23, 2008, 01:55:17 PM
Well, after all that I've just ordered this version:



Thanks for the input everyone - theres other versions I'd like to investigate as well based on the recommendations from this thread  :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

RJR

#35
December 16, 2010, 02:36:09 PM
Lazar Berman.

Daverz

#36
December 16, 2010, 02:46:25 PM
You mean there are people that own more than 1 recording of the Liszt concertos.  :o

George

#37
December 16, 2010, 04:14:56 PM
Quote from: Daverz on December 16, 2010, 02:46:25 PM
You mean there are people that own more than 1 recording of the Liszt concertos.  :o



Yeah, we didn't all strike gold the first time around.  ;)

Me, I started with the Cziffra and son recording on Seraphim.

I must put in a plug for a great recording of Totentanz here - Janis/Reiner.
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