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Posted on September 15, 2020 at 11:50:00
Chris from Lafayette
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 OK - I've committed to obtaining and listening to some recent recommendations here from other inmates, and I can remember the following:

  • Bruckner: Symphonies 6 and 9 - Ballot
  • Chopin: Nocturnes (Supraphon remaster) - Moravec
  • Various: More Dutton remasters of 70's RCA and Columbia/CBS quad recordings
  • Ravel: Orchestral Works (SACD incarnation) - Boulez

Am I missing anything? (No, jdaniel, I won't be ordering any London Baroque - at least this time around!) And BTW, I did receive that Mehta/Bavarian RSO blu-ray set of Mahler 3 and 5 - I just haven't been able to listen to it yet - I already know the Fifth is excellent, since I had it on SACD.

EDIT: Oops! I forgot about the Matsuev/Chailly/Lucerne Rachmaninoff Third blu-ray - that one goes on the list too!

 

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Anything by Vlado Perlemuter, posted on September 15, 2020 at 18:22:05
John Marks
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 And I have a couple of new recs I will start new threads on.

ATB,

John

 

Ah - Thanks, John! I DID listen to some Perlemuter recordings a few days ago, posted on September 15, 2020 at 18:40:55
Chris from Lafayette
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 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.

 

Nimbus gave him the royal treatment: not just an Lp release, but 45rpm Lp release! nt, posted on September 15, 2020 at 19:15:28
jdaniel@jps.net
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RE: Nimbus gave him the royal treatment: not just an Lp release, but 45rpm Lp release! nt, posted on September 15, 2020 at 20:23:59
alc777
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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...

 

"Wow! Who is this guy and why haven't I heard of him?", posted on September 17, 2020 at 15:12:31
John Marks
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 Music to my ears!!!

Please pass on my admiration for her!

amb,

john

 

Done! The items have been ordered! [nt], posted on September 18, 2020 at 17:49:35
Chris from Lafayette
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