Schubert Piano Recordings

[George]

Well, your suggestions usually become my shopping list.

Just in the mail today:

if they're even half a good as his bach suites, then you are in for a treat!

[not edward]

Does anyone have a good D959 recommendation or three? FWIW, my tastes in Schubert piano sonatas lean distinctly in the Richterian direction (at least currently).

[George]

Does anyone have a good D959 recommendation or three? FWIW, my tastes in Schubert piano sonatas lean distinctly in the Richterian direction (at least currently).

I was going to say Richter but...how about Yudina? She definitely leans so far in that direction that she all but falls over. 

Buy it here: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=30129&name_role1=2&bcorder=2&name_id=10889&name_role=1

Download movements one and two here for free: Right click on the link: http://www.mariayudina.com/index.cfm I am not sure if that's the same performance (though it probably is), but you'll get the gist. BTW, everything else is downloadable for free too! Or you can just listen. 

[Steve]

I was going to say Richter but...how about Yudina? She definitely leans so far in that direction that she all but falls over. 

Buy it here: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=30129&name_role1=2&bcorder=2&name_id=10889&name_role=1

Download movements one and two here for free: Right click on the link: http://www.mariayudina.com/index.cfm I am not sure if that's the same performance (though it probably is), but you'll get the gist. BTW, everything else is downloadable for free too! Or you can just listen. 

I second the Ritter. 

[Bunny]

if they're even half a good as his bach suites, then you are in for a treat!

I just finished listening to the Wispelwey/Giacometti and it is a treat, indeed.

[Holden]

Schnabel is wonderful in D959 and makes perfect sense of the second theme of the second movement which a number fail to do. Brendel is also very good here

[FideLeo]

if they're even half a good as his bach suites, then you are in for a treat!

A quite youthful-feeling Arpeggione compared to most, and that's why it is good. 

Nowadays we have many Winterreise interpretations that sound like the
protagonist were a seventy-year-old man. 

[FideLeo]

Well, your suggestions usually become my shopping list.

Well, I was hoping that they would make people's "to know" list rather than
their "to buy" list.   

[George]

Who do folks like for the Unfinished Symphony?

Kleiber? Boehm? Walter? Sinopoli? Wand? Or this one?

I have Boehm, It's nice, but a bit slow, so I want another. 

[Florestan]

Who do folks like for the Unfinished Symphony?

Kleiber? Boehm? Walter? Sinopoli? Wand?

I have Boehm, It's nice, but a bit slow, so I want another. 

Harnoncourt maybe?

[George]

Harnoncourt maybe?

I've only liked his Mozart Requiem, but I will sample (I am sure he's fast). Thanks!

[orbital]

Does anyone have a good D959 recommendation or three? FWIW, my tastes in Schubert piano sonatas lean distinctly in the Richterian direction (at least currently).

Not Richterian obviuosly, but Pollini does a very good job in the recital where he played all 958, 59 and 60 form 1980's I think   This is the second recording of those late sonatas that made them meaningful for me (after Richter)

[sidoze]

Does anyone have a good D959 recommendation or three? FWIW, my tastes in Schubert piano sonatas lean distinctly in the Richterian direction (at least currently).

Sokolov, mostly for the harrowing slow movement. I have it somewhere and can upload it if you wish.

I heard him play D958 last week but didn't like it much. The finale was too deliberate, a bore after Richter / 58 / M&A

[Drasko]

Who do folks like for the Unfinished Symphony?

Kleiber? Boehm? Walter? Sinopoli? Wand? Or this one?

I have Boehm, It's nice, but a bit slow, so I want another. 

If Bohm is too slow for you avoid Sinopoli.

[sidoze]

Who do folks like for the Unfinished Symphony?

Kleiber? Boehm? Walter? Sinopoli? Wand? Or this one?

I have Boehm, It's nice, but a bit slow, so I want another. 

Monteux

[George]

If Bohm is too slow for you avoid Sinopoli.

Thanks. That one's OOP anyway.

I am giving Boehm's another chance and my goodness, this is one is SO much better than I recall. I think I am all set for now. 

[Drasko]

Sokolov, mostly for the harrowing slow movement. I have it somewhere and can upload it if you wish.

Yes please.

[orbital]

I heard him play D958 last week but didn't like it much. The finale was too deliberate, a bore after Richter / 58 / M&A

Is that the program that includes Scriabin? If so, how were those?

[sidoze]

Yes please.

I'll try to pick it up tomorrow and upload it this weekend.

Is that the program that includes Scriabin? If so, how were those?

Yeah I loved the Scriabin pieces. 3rd Sonata also seemed too deliberate at times but the left-hand pieces were gorgeous and his trills in the 10th sonata were ferocious. A recording was uploaded to the Sokolov Yahoo group but I don't think it was a professional radio recording. Most likely there will be if he plays the Bad Kissingen festival this summer (they always record him for radio).

Encores were a mixed bag except for the Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu which was breathtaking, even better than the last time I heard him. Some poor devil in front of me was shaking his head in disbelief at the speed and accuracy of the outer sections.

[SimonGodders]

Who do folks like for the Unfinished Symphony?

Kleiber? Boehm? Walter? Sinopoli? Wand? Or this one?

I have Boehm, It's nice, but a bit slow, so I want another. 

I have the Bohm and like it, as well as Toscanini, which I prefer a little more.