Chopin PC's 1 & 2 CD reccommendations

[Solitary Wanderer]

Which is the one to get?

Argerich with Dutoit and the MSO on EMI?

[Bonehelm]

Krystian Zimmerman.

[Gustav]

Krystian Zimmerman.

which one though? I much prefer the earlier one with Giulini and LSO.

[Don]

Which is the one to get?

Argerich with Dutoit and the MSO on EMI?

I'm not keen on the Argerich.  My favorites are Rubinstein, Pollini, Pires, both Zimmerman discs and Francois.

[Josquin des Prez]

Krystian Zimmerman.

Yes!

Karajan, the greatest source of orchestral power.

No!

[Bonehelm]

Yes!

No!

Can you just crawl back to whatever hole you came out of? No one wants you here.

[Josquin des Prez]

No one wants you here.

That's precisely why i'm here. This forum needs a villain of sort else strange things are prone to occur, such as people believing that Elgar is a greater composer then Beethoven, or that every composer is 'great' as long as somebody out there likes their music. Those are the dangers bound to befall an emasculated civilization, particularly among those so called 'intellectuals' who are quite at ease within contemporary educational centers, where boys enter as boys and come out as rabid feminists, eager to engage in empty gymnastic in semantics to help create a postmodernist utopia.

[George]

Which is the one to get?

Argerich with Dutoit and the MSO on EMI?

Yup.

[orbital]

If you have to have the two on one CD.

[Great Gable]

I have the two with Zimmerman/Giulini and they are very good. I also have several versions of each concerto singularly, with I think, 4 or 5 by Rubinstein. One of them he takes the slow movement a little fast for my own tastes but it can't be considered a criticism and his delicacy of playing more than makes up for it. Another one I have is Pogorelich's no. 2 with Abbado. I remember reading the review in Penguin (can't find the old edition) and they didn't like it at all. It's my favourite - displaying lot's of fire and passion - wonderful.

I always hoped Ashkenazy would do the two - I love the rest of his solo Chopin.

[orbital]

Another one I have is Pogorelich's no. 2 with Abbado. I remember reading the review in Penguin (can't find the old edition) and they didn't like it at all. It's my favourite - displaying lot's of fire and passion - wonderful.

I have not heard Pogorelich here, but as a fiery PC#2 there is the Haskil/Markevitch rendition which is definitely among my favorites.

[George]

I always hoped Ashkenazy would do the two - I love the rest of his solo Chopin.

Seconded.

[Mark]

which one though? I much prefer the earlier one with Giulini and LSO.

Seconded. As for Argerich/Dutoit, I wasn't as impressed as I'd hoped to be.

[Holden]

If you have to have the two on one CD.

Who is that - it looks like Hofman?

[sidoze]

I always hoped Ashkenazy would do the two - I love the rest of his solo Chopin.

His early recording of number 2 on Testament is quite good but not up with the best performances.

Argerich with Dutoit and the MSO on EMI?

definitely no. You should probably wait until the Berezovsky recording comes out soon.

[MN Dave]

I'm not keen on the Argerich.  My favorites are Rubinstein, Pollini, Pires, both Zimmerman discs and Francois.

Is this Rubinstein with Barbirolli? I just picked this up.

[Que]

Is this Rubinstein with Barbirolli? I just picked this up.

Those are his 1st recordings - from the '30s.

Q

[MN Dave]

Those are his 1st recordings - from the '30s.

Q

Yeah, I was wondering if these were the recordings Don referred to as favorites.

[Que]

Yeah, I was wondering if these were the recordings Don referred to as favorites.

Despite their age and cuts, they are mine anyway! 

Q

[MN Dave]

Despite their age and cuts, they are mine anyway! 

Q

Great! I know I have some good ones then.