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In Reply to: RE: Scott, I agree with the ones you mention posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 28, 2014 at 00:01:10
1. I wish you would name them.
2. Excellent points about Janis.
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Regarding your first point, I feel that if I named others, there would be two problems:
- I would doubtless forget some pianists I meant to include, and I'd get mad at myself! ;-)
- As a couple of posters have noted, no one plays at such a consistently high level in all repertoire that all criticism can be banished! For instance, I would include Sokolov, but he's too often not to my liking - however, at his best, he's so good that I think he would need to be included regardless. BTW, now that he's just signed with DG, I hope we'll be hearing some of his performances (which have been floating around the internet in various states of fidelity) in improved SQ! Anyway, given the variability of performances in general, I feel that I would need to explain my choices in a lot of cases, which I just don't have time to do right now.
Edits: 11/28/14
What Janis performed he really performed well. Once saw him live doing Pictures. Truly great. Is only problem he tried to copy Horowitz's technique and it eventually ruined his hands. Also I]his repertoire was limited. His Mercury recordings are really very good.
Alan
I would agree with Chris about Richter and about modern players both. Would like to hear more of Moravec, especially in Chopin.
Have you heard the two late CDs the Janis did of Chopin and Liszt? Quite extraordinary.
Other greats to consider among living greats, I think, are Sokolov and Roger Woodward...
Harry
By the way Janis performance on Mercury of the Prokofiev 3rd is my all time favorite performance of that piece. Just love it
Alan
"By the way Janis performance on Mercury of the Prokofiev 3rd is my all time favorite performance of that piece. Just love it"
Yes - not always the fastest by any means (but still faster than a lot of other pianists), but so full of tonal inflection and color! It certainly gives the lie to the idea that Prokofiev is all about mechanistics (I know that's not a word!) and rhythm. No! Those are just the starting points! ;-)
Plus Kondrashin is great and so is the recording. My favourite recording except for Prokofiev himself when I can stand the sound.
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