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In Reply to: RE: Cello Night: Bach, Dvorak and Vaughan Williams Exquisite Miniatures posted by jdaniel@jps.net on September 25, 2016 at 22:21:42
So far, I'm liking the Bach Suites with Isang Enders on Berlin Classics. Great sound and a thoughtful performance. Too bad about the LP surfaces.Edit: Wow, I know the pianist in your video clip. Very fine.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
Edits: 09/26/16Follow Ups:
I find Piatigosky compelling. Hugely famous in his time and married into the Rothschilds. Good chess player like his wife.
Any more fans here?
Gonna be a busy day what with the Living Stereo SACD re-issue being up for streaming at 176kHz 24-bit on ClassicalOnlineHD.
Living Stereo SACD is almost free on Amazon, so '1-click' did it!
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It seems that in his later recordings (Dvorak Concerto with Munch, Brahms Double Concerto with Hefetz and Wallenstein), Piatigorsky couldn't seem to find the center of the pitch in many cases.
One recording of the Dvorak I'm about to order is the Thauer/Kosler/CzPO album on DG. Anja Thauer was a babe cellist from the past who no doubt would have been a rival to Jackie. Tragically, she committed suicide at the age of 28. The performance is (mostly) available on uTube, and, although I don't generally trust uTube SQ, there's enough there so that you can tell that Kosler, typically, did not enforce accurate rhythmic subdivisions of the dotted rhythms in the first few seconds or so. I'm still interested in hearing the performance to see what Thauer did with the solo part, so I'll order a copy.
BTW, there's a connection to Andy's post about Ludwig Hoelscher's recording of the Dvorak: at the age of 14, Thauer studied with Hoelscher for a year before she left Germany and entered the Paris Conservatory to study with Andre Navarra.
YEs?
In Brusilow's book "Shoot the Conductor," he has Piatigorsky saying he wouldn't play chess with his wife because she always beat him.
Yes, I'm a fan, but his recording of the Dvorak concerto with Munch doesn't show him at his best.
Is there another recording of the Dvorak with Piatigorsky apart from the Munch?There are some other fine recordings of the Dvorak:
Rose/Philadelphia/Ormandy - very satisfying
Feuermann/Berlin State Opera Orch/Taube - glorious, from 1929, though he does rush ahead in places
Navarra/Schwarz 1954 - not the greatest sound but excellent playing
Janigro/Vienna State Opera/Dixon 1953 - this one has some eccentric tempi in places, but also some really good playing from Janigro. It's well worth a listen on YT - quite compelling in its way. It's a lot more relaxed and spacious than the Kleiber
Janigro/Koln Radio Orch/Erich Kleiber live 1955 - I like Janigro in this work!
Edits: 09/27/16
There is another recording of the Dvorak concerto with Piatigorsky: with Ormandy and Philly (1946). Here's that recording on youtube in muffled sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOKqN--DP8
My favorite recordings are broadcasts with Rostropovich that are very hard to find:
--with Leinsdorf Cleveland Orch, 1972, a white-hot reading that easily betters the Rostropvich/Karajan version.
--with Kondrashin/RCO, 1977--a notch below the 1972 version in intensity, but with much better sound.
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