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Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations

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Posted on March 11, 2008 at 11:01:13
Mike K
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 I dont care much for classical music, but I really do like solo - repeat
solo - classical guitar and piano.

I have some of the Naxos guitar collections discs, and really like
them. I have some Parkening, Segovia, Bream, and other guitarists
whom I enjoy a lot. I have miscellaneous solo piano recordings,
including Gould's Goldberg Variations.

So I would welcome your recommendations in these areas, as many or as
few as you care to make. I'm trying to build up my collection - albeit
slowly - and I'd prefer not to make too many expensive mistakes when
purchasing.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mike

 

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Your preferences for guitar suggests to me ....., posted on March 11, 2008 at 11:57:17
Chuck Y
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 that you might really enjoy music for solo piano by Albeniz. This music has been transcribed for guitar and is, actually much better known in its guitar form. Iberia Suites. I have three different versions. Hamlin on Hyperion, Heisser on Erato, and Ricardo Requejo on Claves. I perfer the latter but it is probably OOP.

Debussy Preludes and Images - lots of excellent performances. My preference is Paul Jacobs on Non-such but in modern performances on very well produced CD's I really enjoy Noriko Ogawa on BIS. FWIW, if you want to hear Debussy on guitar, I really enjoy an CD by the Amsterdam Guitar Trio on RCA 7800-2-RC. This also includes music by Faure and Chopin transcribed for piano.

Keeping the Spanish theme going - Goyescas Siute for Piano by Granodos. Eric Parkin on Chandos; or, Goyescas and Pieces Espanles by Manual DeFalla on played by Ralph Votapek on Ivory Classics; or, 12 Danzas Espanolas and 6 Espanolas and Escenas Romanticas by Grenados as performed Heisser on Erato.

Or, Manual de Falla - La Obra Para Piano. I have Heisser's on Erato.

I think you would find the Albinez and Falla recordings more instantly recognizable as 'Spanish' guitar music.

Now if you want some recommendations that have nothing to do with guitar music, are their any composers whose music is attractive to you in its orchestral or chamber styles? I could go on recommending solo piano music beyond most folks threshold of pain I think. :-)

 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on March 11, 2008 at 13:57:30
Bigromano
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 Not classical and not solo but... do some research on Fareed Haque. He is an amazing guitar player and his instrumental CD "Deja Vu" is among the favorites in my collection.

 

Piano: Anything by Moravec, esp. his Chopin [nt], posted on March 11, 2008 at 14:00:53
Charlie F.
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 (:~)

 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on March 11, 2008 at 19:44:27
Thornhill
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Check out Gulda's recording of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas

 

Chopin- Four Scherzi- Antonio Barbosa, posted on March 11, 2008 at 22:45:03
Todd Krieger
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 Chopin- Four Scherzi- Antonio Barbosa - Connoisseur (The greatest "unknown" pianist of all time. Only on vinyl)
Vladimir Horowitz Plays Scriabin - RCA (Will raise the dead)
The Virtuosity of Earl Wild - Ivory Classics (Great sampler, best Chopin A-Flat-Major Polonaise IMO on recording)
Ayako Uehara- Tchaikovsky Piano Works - EMI (I like her Tchaik "Grand Sonata" better than Richter's)

 

Some wild guesses on the piano front, posted on March 12, 2008 at 00:49:08
k-k-k-kenny
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 You mention the Goldberg variations, so I have in mind smaller scale piano works, or those which comprise a series of shorter parts.
A few possibilities, all on CD:
Bach - Well tempered clavier. Richter is very satisfying. So, too, is Evgeny Koroliov - more recent and a bit more expensive at the usual outlets.
Chopin - Etudes, Preludes, Waltzes, or, at 5-7 minute length, Polonaises. I'm not a huge fan of the waltzes meself, but the others never pall. Just about every piano slinger has had a crack at one or more of them.
Rachmaninov - Preludes. Ashkenazy has done them all, Richter did most of them, and they're not expensive. My personal favourite is Emil Gilels' playing of the G Minor prelude Op. 23 No. 5 (is it?) - the history of Russia in around 3 minutes' profoundly moving pianism, available on a Brilliant Classics compilation - the one with the blue cover - which has lots of other great material on it.
Busoni's transcriptions of Bach. The only ones I'm familiar with are those of Paul Jacobs - The Legendary Busoni Recordings. Fabulous.

 

Ha!, posted on March 12, 2008 at 06:31:23
Charlie F.
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 You beat me to it!

After I left the "Moravec" post, I remembered this integrale. This is my first visit since.

To me, this Gulda is always good, usually intriguing, and sometimes fascinating. His Andante in the Pastorale is my favorite performance of that movement in the dozen or so recordings I've heard.

Yours,
-=- Charlie F.

 

Check out these guitarists, posted on March 12, 2008 at 07:38:20
Budrew
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 Raphaella Smits
Lily Afshar
Dale Kavanagh
Aaron Brock
Cristina Azuma

I have a lot more that are not "strictly" classical guitar if interested.

 

Lots, posted on March 12, 2008 at 10:19:10
rlindsa
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 Mozart Piano Sonatas, esp. K. 284, 310, 311, 330, 331. I like de Larrocha, but lots of people recorded them

Scarlatti Sonatas (there's about 535 of them) - mostly performed on harpischord, but Horowitz, de Larrocha, Landowska (maybe) and probably others recorded them on piano. Horowitz's "The Celebrated Scarlatti Recordings" contains some good ones.

Glenn Gould recorded a lot of Bach keyboard pieces on piano - Goldberg Varations, Tocattas, French Suites, Well-Tempered Clavier, The Art of the Fugue, etc.

Beethoven Piano Sonatas - Moonlight, Pathetique, Appassionata, Tempest, L'es ADieux, etc. Again, lots of performers/performances to choose from

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Rachmaninoff - 24 Preludes, Piano Sonatas, Etudes

Chopin - LOTS; Rubinstein is the easy choice here, but there are lots to choose from

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsodies

Lots of others

rlindsa - new vinyl freak

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. (Albert Schweitzer)

 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on March 12, 2008 at 23:46:57
zuki
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Bach on Guitar, posted on March 16, 2008 at 09:23:37
JimC
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 I suggest you look for Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas by Paul Galbraith on solo guitar. Beautifully played and well-recorded. Available at Amazon and probably other places.

 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on May 23, 2016 at 18:40:30
Tweaker456
 Mike, I might suggest a few of Lilly Afshar's recordings. Hemispheres, A Jug of Wine and Thou, Possession, and Bach on Fire. Great stuff, IMO. Tweaker

 

So many pianists, so little time, posted on May 23, 2016 at 19:28:22
Bill Way
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 Rubinstein playing Chopin - so many recordings over many decades, all wonderful.

Garrick Ohlsson playing Chopin - all of Chopin. Also wonderful to hear how his Chopin has changed over the years he has been recording it.

Louis Lortie playing Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage on Chandos. Two hours of Liszt at his most impossible.

All of Glenn Gould, and don't miss the Zenph/Sony "re-performance" of his legendary 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations (HDtracks)

Claudio Arrau playing Chopin

Rubinstein playing Brahms

Luis Grané playing Isaac Albéniz' "Iberia" (24/96 from playclassics.com) - I am completely enchanted by this piece and performance; wonderful recording, too.

Other essential pianists:
Emmanuel Axe, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Wilhelm Kempf, Mauricio Pollini, Rudolf Firkunsky, Murray Perahia, Rudolf Serkin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Schnabel, Andre Watts, Dinu Lipati, Youri Egerov, Alfred Brendel, Vladimir Horowitz, Moriz Rosenthal, Dick Hyman (Scott Joplin specialist), Hyperion Knight, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Andras Schiff, Angela Hewitt.

WW
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Gulda's Beethoven, posted on May 24, 2016 at 07:55:09
Kas
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 It'd be cheaper to check out in its other incarnation:

 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on May 24, 2016 at 12:35:49
6bq5
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 Basically Bull
is the title to an Alan Feinberg piano album of compositions by John Bull, a late 16th / early 17th century composer-
I like it very much.

For Guitar - Michael Hedges, Leo Kotke, John Fahey, John Williams...
Happy Listening

 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on May 24, 2016 at 19:56:15
drobin07
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 A few piano CDs that I enjoy that haven't been mentioned:

Martha Argerich, debut recital (and almost any other of her solo piano albums)

Ekaterina Derzhavina, Haydn piano sonatas (which get far too little attention)

Daniel Gortler, Mendelssohn Songs without words

Maria Joao Pires, Chopin Nocturnes

Xiajin Wang, Rachmaninoff Moments Musicaux, and other pieces.

The Argerich, Gortler and Pires are on Tidal, so you can sample them first

David







 

RE: Seeking solo classical guitar and piano recommendations, posted on May 28, 2016 at 21:20:27
fantja
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 Thanks! for sharing- All.

 

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