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In Reply to: RE: "Who are these people? And how can they be so good?" posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 12, 2016 at 13:44:56
She has a Tchaikovsky CD with more boobage on the cover.
I'm curious to hear the Rachmaninoff 4. Since they don't spell his name correctly, I'm skeptical.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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Sure, we both know he spelled it Rachmaninoff - but there's a movement underway to enforce uniformity in the transliteration of Russian words and names. Not a big deal to me, and I wouldn't read too much into the spelling on the cover - it's hardly the only cover that has the name of the composer spelled that way.
Regarding Daria's Tchaikovksy Sonata disc. . .
. . . it's a very good performance of an all-too-infrequently encountered work (I posted about it a couple of years ago AFAIR), and I don't see anything unusual about the cover.
I've now had a chance to listen to the new download and the Rachmaninoff performance is excellent - with superior articulation in the last movement in particular, not only on the repeated notes, but with the whole pianistic line throughout. The Ravel is very exciting, due to some gear shifts she takes at certain places (unfortunately, one of these is right before the "bassoon solo from hell" in the last movement - the poor bassoonist!). The orchestra could have helped out more on the last note however - not enough oomph and guts for my taste! I also enjoyed the Gershwin, and it's true, she does give us a modest amount of improvisation in the long solo section in the middle. (Improvisation from the academe, as it were - she apparently has a DMA!)
As I mentioned, the only download I could find was a FLAC (which I converted to AIFF) at CD (16/44.1) quality, and I checked one of the tracks with spectrograph software: it's annoying - the original recording obviously has signals which go well above 22KHz, but they're lopped off in the limited CD bandwidth. Other than that, the SQ is pretty good. Even so, the CD-limited bandwidth is annoying enough that I just sent Daria an e-mail to ask if she might know whether a higher-rez version/download might be available at some point. I'll let folks know if she replies. (But if she's like my wife, she'll start running the other way once she hears terms like "24/96" - LOL!)
.... and I'm not going to go through the issue here and now again.
Thanks for the notes on the recording.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
I stated:I also enjoyed the Gershwin, and it's true, she does give us a modest amount of improvisation in the long solo section in the middle. (Improvisation from the academe, as it were - she apparently has a DMA!)I just read Daria's booklet notes, and the additional musical phrases I heard, which I assumed to be improvisation, were not improvisation at all, per her statement:In the present recording, an attempt has been made to perform not only the complete version of 1924, orchestrated by Ferde Grofe, but also to incorporate some of the additional material from the original manuscript, discovered by pianist and Gershwin scholar Alicia Zizzo.Very interesting - so THAT's what I was hearing! So if you're a Rhapsody in Blue compleatist, you HAVE to get Daria's new album! ;-)
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