Quote from: Spotted Horses on Today at 08:08:44 AMYes, it took me forever to like this post.
Quote from: Florestan on Today at 01:20:22 PMComparison between Different Recordings of Two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
If the thread's title means the above, mea culpa.
Quote from: Todd on Today at 12:21:33 PMIncorrect.
Quote from: foxandpeng on April 18, 2024, 11:08:36 AMIvo Jirásek
Symphony - 'Matka Naděje' or 'Mother Hope'
Zdeněk Košler
Czech Philharmonic
Supraphon
Left field discovery while looking for Novak's, 'The Storm' on Spotify (which doesn't seem to be available for streaming).
Can't find much on Jirásek at all, on t'internet. I like this symphony very much, however. Atmospheric, dramatic, thoughtful, punctuated with contemplative passages that build and drop tension, loud and strident brass and percussion... niiiice....
Quote from: prémont on Today at 10:58:04 AMFor some unknown reason Todd used Backhaus' stereo recording for comparison. The earlier mono recording is generally more successful.
I agree that Sonoda is good and well may be among my top ten cycles too. The many excellent cycles available are difficult to rank precisely. But Backhaus' mono is in my top two, Kempff's mono cycle being the other one.
If you read Todd's evaluations closely it's obvious that he first and foremost is led by his taste, like all of us.
Quote from: Herman on Today at 09:54:05 AMI would caution against taking Bernstein's characterisations of Mahler's music too seriously. They're often deeply reductive and yet hard to shake. In one of those 'Bernstein sits down at the piano to explain music' video's he boiled down Tchaikovsky's 4th to "I want it, I want it" as if it were a rock song.
Quote from: Brian on Today at 11:16:21 AMIt is because he is trying to rank his personal #11-20, not his top 10, and the mono version is already in his top 10.
Quote from: Florestan on Today at 11:36:31 AMBTW, the thread deals with two Beethoven piano sonatas —— the thread's title is inaccurate.
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