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In Reply to: RE: I need recommendations posted by Penguin on March 12, 2015 at 15:56:02
I have never heard a piano version of TROS that really got me excited. That piece deserves a full orchestra. Too many tonal colors lost with just piano, but this is just my opinion, of course.
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Boulez with Cleveland on DG.
what I look for in Le Sacre is timing precision and dynamic expressions.
Tonal values are lucky strike extra for me. Maybe this is why I like Stravinsky conducting his own.
If a performance has it without losing the first two of my criteria, I am all for it tho.
. . . the piano versions can be fascinating in their own right. The Three Scenes from Petrouchka vie with Gaspard de la nuit (and a couple of other pieces I suppose) for being the most technically difficult piano solo in the standard repertoire. For that aspect alone, it's very interesting to me to hear how different pianists succeed or fail at the challenge. (And IMHO, most fail!) And you can't deny that you're hearing some details in the piano versions that you don't hear in the orchestral versions. Overall, I think the piano versions are certainly interesting for a change of pace - of course, I'm a pianist, so I'm biased. ;-)
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My daughter told me that every ballet has a piano version for the practices, some are quite remarkable :).
For the full experience you do need the full orchestra, i agree. Some ballets make very interesting piano pieces.
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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