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In Reply to: RE: Anyone else a sucker for Piatigorsky? posted by andy evans on September 27, 2016 at 02:36:58
In Brusilow's book "Shoot the Conductor," he has Piatigorsky saying he wouldn't play chess with his wife because she always beat him.
Yes, I'm a fan, but his recording of the Dvorak concerto with Munch doesn't show him at his best.
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Is there another recording of the Dvorak with Piatigorsky apart from the Munch?There are some other fine recordings of the Dvorak:
Rose/Philadelphia/Ormandy - very satisfying
Feuermann/Berlin State Opera Orch/Taube - glorious, from 1929, though he does rush ahead in places
Navarra/Schwarz 1954 - not the greatest sound but excellent playing
Janigro/Vienna State Opera/Dixon 1953 - this one has some eccentric tempi in places, but also some really good playing from Janigro. It's well worth a listen on YT - quite compelling in its way. It's a lot more relaxed and spacious than the Kleiber
Janigro/Koln Radio Orch/Erich Kleiber live 1955 - I like Janigro in this work!
Edits: 09/27/16
There is another recording of the Dvorak concerto with Piatigorsky: with Ormandy and Philly (1946). Here's that recording on youtube in muffled sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOKqN--DP8
My favorite recordings are broadcasts with Rostropovich that are very hard to find:
--with Leinsdorf Cleveland Orch, 1972, a white-hot reading that easily betters the Rostropvich/Karajan version.
--with Kondrashin/RCO, 1977--a notch below the 1972 version in intensity, but with much better sound.
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