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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 07:58:11 AM

7.30 PM (UK time)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z05s

Thanks!  I'll put a memo on my computer calendar to remind me. 

PD

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by vandermolen - Today at 07:53:56 AM

@vandermolen What time is it on?  I'll try and listen to it [Currently watching Nadal warm up vs. an American who is 16 years younger than him.  In Madrid.  Not an open seat in the arena.].

PD

7.30 PM (UK time)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z05s

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 07:49:37 AM

Yes, it's a great set Harry.

TD
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 BBC SO, Andrew Davis
I agree with the view that this is a rather underrated set.
Of course Andrew Davis re-recorded the 7th and 9th symphonies (+ Job) for Chandos (with the Bergen SO). Andrew Davis was scheduled to conduct at the Proms this year - the concert will now be a tribute to Sir Andrew. Tonight the BBC (Radio 3) are broadcasting his last Prom concert featuring VW Symphony No.4 and Tippett Symphony No.4:

@vandermolen What time is it on?  I'll try and listen to it [Currently watching Nadal warm up vs. an American who is 16 years younger than him.  In Madrid.  Not an open seat in the arena.].

PD

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Chopin Recordings

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 07:31:05 AM

Great liner notes! Always nice to read clearly articulated thoughts from the artist and not the usual generic composer bios "Beethoven was going deaf, he was melancholy and listening to Linkin Park in his room all day."

Also takes some guts to name the pianists that inspired you for each piece and say why as that will inevitably draw comparisons.

Yes I liked this and the Moonlight Sonata on that disc very much, if I had to pick one Lim disc to buy I'd likely buy this one over the Liszt Transcendental Etudes. The Annees was sort of like Zoltán Kocsis' in that it was direct and phrasing bordering on slightly hard. But it was never bombastic.

Have you heard the recording of Ji-Yoon Park and Yunchan Lim playing in the Dvorak op 81 piano quintet? Ji- Yu Park is another one to watch!

https://theviolinchannel.com/ji-yoon-park-radio-france-philharmonic-orchestra-concertmaster-new-appointment/

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Favourite pianist who emer...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 07:23:51 AM

I first saw him there in 2002, performing a wonderful quartet for the end of time in a late night concert and Brahms and Ravel trios in Queens Hall. 2002 is when his first Messiaen recording of Vingt Regards was issued.

Gosh -- I thought the Messiaen was earlier than that!  Time plays tricks on you.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Spotted Horses - Today at 07:19:58 AM

Sibelius, Symphony No 4, Vanska, Minnesota



I'm a huge admirer of Sibelius, but the forth symphony doesn't work for me, and Vanska isn't helping.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Chopin Recordings

Last post by Atriod - Today at 07:12:17 AM

I just listened to some scatterings of Chopin Etudes from Cortot (EMI mega box, Biddulph. I prefer Marston's Biddulph transfers over Art&Son for his acoustic era), Friedman (Naxos Historical), Youri Egorov (EMI box), and Horowitz (studio, some live), these were the pianists that Lim mentioned in the booklet. I certainly agree with Lim's description of Cortot. It is nice to see these yoots acknowledge the old wizards like Cortot and not avoid them because of surface noise. Maybe pianists are more forgiving of this than the general public, I recall a Youtube video with a professional pianist that had what must have been a ~$200k hifi saying audiophiles tended to avoid poor sounding orchestral recordings and he couldn't imagine not listening to Lhevinne. Lim's selections include pianists I gravitate to more in the Chopin Etudes as I noticed I don't tend to care for ones like Maurizio Pollini or Ashkenazy. The best performances I have heard are from Juana Zayas.

I am waiting to hear Lim on my main speakers. I sold our speakers at this house and am slumming it with some I had to pull from the speaker graveyard.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Favourite pianist who emer...

Last post by Hobby - Today at 07:07:14 AM

I saw Steven Osborne for the first time in the Edinburgh Festival around 1990. He emerged with his Messiaen I'd say.

I first saw him there in 2002, performing a wonderful quartet for the end of time in a late night concert and Brahms and Ravel trios in Queens Hall. 2002 is when his first Messiaen recording of Vingt Regards was issued.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Last post by aukhawk - Today at 07:04:28 AM

That's just a tagging issue, it's not directly the responsibility of the streaming service.

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Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Favourite pianist who emer...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 06:45:38 AM

I became a member GMG just over three years ago. The combination of the GMG and first accessing Qobuz as a streaming service helped keep me engaged and sane during enforced lockdowns, exacerbated by a hernia that could not get treated for months due to COVID restrictions. I have greatly enjoyed reading the wisdom and learnt a great deal, though some of the petty spats are irritating.

I thought it would be fun and illuminating to start a thread on this topic. Pianists who emerged into the recording domain in the first decade of the 21st century have had about 15 to 25 years to build up a recorded repertoire. As a result I expect a significant range of composers, preferably including both core repertoire and some less well known composers. Through GMG I have had a chance to discover several wonderful pianists who fit the bill - examples being Kosuge, Lucchesini, Schuch and Chamayou. As always members will welcome some flexibility at the margins - selected favourites might have an early recording just before 2000. Equally my intention is to include and welcome diversity across solo piano, chamber music and concertos.

Tobias Koch. Tom Beghin.