Quote from: Florestan on Today at 12:17:57 AMWell, I find Hanslick's comment particularly inept in view of the fact that the main theme of the finale has more than a vague resemblance to that of Mendelssohn's VC, and Felix certainly was not a vodka-drinking, unkempt, cursing muzhik.. I wonder what Hanslick may have said about Mussorgsky, who in his late years probably literally smelled like vodka.
Quote from: prémont on Today at 02:18:38 AMDieter Goldmann is a fictitious name. I own one of these budget releases where all three sonatas are attributed to Tomsic. However, I question whether it is her playing the Appassionata Sonata. Indeed, she recorded the Appassionata Sonata for the Koch label, but that is a separate recording. Interestingly, the budget Appassionata is much superior to hers.
Quote from: Luke on Today at 01:45:12 AMNo better St George's Day listening for me, in England, in April, than the overwhelming masterpiece that is April-England, by John Foulds. A piece that gets to the heart of things, one that is always a treat to hear.
Quote from: Madiel on Today at 01:52:06 AMIt turns out that the first 3 sonatas line up perfectly with a single album, where Dubravka Tomsic is listed as performing the Moonlight and Pathetique, followed by Dieter Goldmann playing the Appassionata.
So that is almost certainly the origin. Someone put a bunch of albums together, grabbed the name of the pianist on the first one, and, being a lazy so-and-so who probably barely understood classical music, went no further.
EDIT: In fact over the years there seem to be at least THREE different albums of the Moonlight/Pathetique/Appassionata combination where the first two sonatas are Tomsic, and the Appassionata is someone else's. All of them have the sort of cheap reissue look about them.
Quote from: Madiel on Today at 01:47:47 AMYes I know, but what struck me is that none of the individual tracks after the first one have any information. It turns out that this is partially Amazon's fault - their interface is highly clumsy and basically it's suggesting that Beethoven guest stars on the first track along with Tomsic, whereas it's just Tomsic after that. But in addition to that, we are probably dealing with the kind of release where someone entered the absolute minimum metadata they could get away with.
Quote from: prémont on Today at 01:42:55 AMThis is the heading, hinting at Tomsic for all the tracks:
Beethoven - Piano Classics
Dubravka Tomsic
102 SONGS • 10 HOURS AND 56 MINUTES • MAY 01 2009
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