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In Reply to: RE: Anything by Vlado Perlemuter posted by John Marks on September 15, 2020 at 18:22:05
Yes - I thought the performances were very good. I listened to his 1950's Ravel Sonatine (on Vox), his 1980's Ravel Sonatine (on Nimbus), his Chopin Nocturne, Op. 27 No. 2, as well as some other Chopin and Bach. He does have an impressive clarity to his finger work, but that dry studio ambiance of the Vox recording does him no favors when he's trying to evoke some coloristic expression. Although the Nimbus goes to the opposite extreme (with a somewhat swimmy acoustic), I still preferred that to the Vox engineering. And Perlemuter, based on the tracks I heard, seemed to have lost very little of his Fingerfertigkeit in the intervening 30 years!
Ms. CfL was, I think, even more impressed with him than I was. She kept asking, "Wow! Who is this guy and why haven't I heard of him?" Well, of course he never had a contract with one of the "big" labels AFAIK, so maybe that inhibited his fame among the public. Anyway, I was glad to have finally made his acquaintance via these recordings we listened to on Qobuz.
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I have a few of Perlemuter's LPs and CDs, love his Chopin, but I don't find the Nimbus SAM45 or the CDs attractive. The piano sound is very different from his earlier recordings, sounded hard and glaring to me. I like his earlier Concert Hall and BBC releases. The even earlier Vox release has poor sound as Chris has mentioned. I once pulled out a 3LP box of his Ravel in the record store and smelled heavy mold so I pushed it back. Later I found out that that is a sought after item and cost quite a bit... Oh well...
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