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[Bogey]

From '36:

[Conor71]

Chopin: Etudes - Nikita Magaloff

[The new erato]

I've played 3 single discs from this set, hardly enough  for sweeping generalizations, but the Constanzo Festa disc certainly is extremely fine.  

[The new erato]

Now playing this. Absolutely outstanding, and I can fully understand this recordings exalted status over a long number of years. And to imagine that it took Brilliant for me to buy it  - poor DG! I owe you an apology, folks!

[Que]

Morning!

Q

[Que]

I've played 3 single discs from this set, hardly enough  for sweeping generalizations, but the Constanzo Festa disc certainly is extremely fine. 

I'm not surprised. I came across a Huelgas Ensemble sampler with many excerpts of several discs in that set - it is high on my priority list. I guess I'll go for a Classical Music bonanza with the Christmas bonus!

Q

[Que]

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER
GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE
CLASSIC CD 100 GREATEST DISCS OF THE DECADE

'Revelatory performances. Technically flawless, yet they also convey a wonderful feeling of spontaneity and utter commitment to Schumann's art' (Classic CD) 'No one who loves Schumann should miss this outstandingly fine new disc' (BBC Music Magazine) 'Some utterly magical playing here. An exemplary release' (Hi-Fi News) 'Incredibly tender playing of three musicians who are completely at one with each other' (The Scotsman) 'Music-making just doesn't come much more sympathetic or stylish than this. Marvellously poised and evincing an impeccable sense of teamwork. Do try to make the Florestan Trio your first port of call' (Gramophone)

And what do you think? 
I've shied away from the Florestan Trio before, on account of their tendency to smooth, polish and prettify. On the other hand I need a complete set of the trios, which are scarse and no HIP recording in sight....
The Beaux Arts did not appeal either, despite it being one of their earlier recordings: hard pressed and lacking in charm. How it ought to be done is demonstrated by Pablo Casals et al in his live recordings from the Prades Festivals (M&A).

Q

[The new erato]

I've shied away from the Florestan Trio before, on account of their tendency to smooth, polish and prettify. On the other hand I need a complete set of the trios, which are scarse and no HIP recording in sight....
The Beaux Arts did not appeal either, despite it being one of their earlier recordings: hard pressed and lacking in charm. How it ought to be done is demonstrated by Pablo Casals et al in his live recordings from the Prades Festivals (M&A).

Q

The book "1001 Classical Recordings you need to hear before you croak" is  full of Florestan recommendations. I've never warmed to the Beaux Arts either, I've owned it for years, but my first inkling that this was positively GREAT music came with the Oistrakh trio originally issued by Westminster but on a double DG reissue a couple of years ago which contain one of Schumnn's trios (can't be bothered to check which one I'm afradis, it's Sunday....).

This seems to be currently OOP, but a new Brillaint 10 CD box with the trio's recordings contains it. Cannot vouch for the remasterings, but these guys really plays as if their lives depend on it, and made me realize that there was far more to this music than the BAT's relative anodyne interpretations. One of relatively few BAT clunkers.

[Valentin]

Now playing CD1 from this set from my Chopin collection ...

Probably my favourite recording of the Nocturnes.

[Coopmv]

Chopin: Etudes - Nikita Magaloff

Magoloff was supposed to be the top interpreter of Chopin works for his generation ...

[Coopmv]

I've played 3 single discs from this set, hardly enough  for sweeping generalizations, but the Constanzo Festa disc certainly is extremely fine.  

Morning all.  My set just arrived yesterday.  Thanks to either Q or Erato for providing that heads up on the availability of this set ...   

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD from my Bach Cantatas collection the Sunday after Reformation Sunday before heading out to Sunday service.  Not quite HIP but has some wonderful singing ...   

[Henk]

[Christo]

Learning (in the Braga Santos thread this morning) that vandermolen finally got his copy of the most glorious performance of Braga Santos' finest (his Third Symphony, from 1948) I feel we should share in his delight:

                           

For a first impression of all of Braga Santos' symphonies this review is worth trying.

[Drasko]

[Bogey]

Mahler
Symphony No. 3
Bernstein/NYPO
Sony
Recorded 1960

[Opus106]

Super-Premier Sunday

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
London Symphony Orchestra|Valery Gergiev

Live|27 Sept. 2009
Salle Pleyel, Paris

[Antoine Marchand]

And what do you think?  
I've shied away from the Florestan Trio before, on account of their tendency to smooth, polish and prettify. On the other hand I need a complete set of the trios, which are scarse and no HIP recording in sight....
The Beaux Arts did not appeal either, despite it being one of their earlier recordings: hard pressed and lacking in charm. How it ought to be done is demonstrated by Pablo Casals et al in his live recordings from the Prades Festivals (M&A).

Q

I have the tree piano trios by the BAT (Philips "Original Masters" Edition) and those performances sound excellent to me. Although I am not sure if you listened to the same discs because my versions were recorded in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, August 1971, which it is not very early in the BAT's trajectory. BTW, I love these performances: they are elegant and impassioned with the right balance between the small musical cells and the general structure, IMO one the most difficult points in Schumann's performance.    

About The Florestan Trio: I owned a handful of recordings of them (Dvorak and Brahms), when I bought this CD; therefore, I was aware –I agree with you on this point- of their tendency to be, how to say it, "emotionally restrained"... And I couldn't say that they are turbulent here, but they convey certain sense of intensity that in general works out. My only quibble is that they seem more interested in the long lines –structure- of these works than in those lovely small voices emerging here and there in Schumann... Not the CD of the decade, but recommendable, IMO.          

Finally, on Musica Omnia it is available this really excellent HIP recording of the D-Minor piano trio (with the charming fortepiano of Penelope Crawford):

[Harry]

Chopin: Etudes - Nikita Magaloff

For me, these are the best performances around!

[Harry]

Magoloff was supposed to be the top interpreter of Chopin works for his generation ...

He still is!