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In Reply to: RE: They may be third-world, but a lot of them have more money than I do! posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 08, 2016 at 00:39:43
would be forbidden on other download sites as well. (How I wish HD Classics would break up the Maazel Sibelius set.
I'll give you your money back if you don't like it! I would like to see his Mozart and Schumann PC's re-released someday too.
My appreciation for Davidovitch revolved around the 2nd mov't of the 2nd--the way she handles those pearly runs every time the main theme comes back.
The exquisite lyrical stretches of the 1st mov't of the 1st seem to tempt pianists into experimenting with phrasing, etc., when personally I prefer steadiness and delicacy. Rubinstein would be the exemplar here, Earl Wild too, IMHO (and if you find the famous RCA recording a little coarse in the strings, Wild's on Reader's Digest is far better recorded). Sokolov, IIRC never breaks the spell with "imaginative touches" either.
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That would be the Haskil/Markevitch No. 2 on Philips. One of the interesting features of this recording is that the Cortot re-orchestration is used - it's pretty wild in places!
They don't get much better, IMNSHO.
You don't have to convince me about Sokolov - I'm a BIG fan too (even if he can be a bit erratic sometimes), and I do plan to download that Eurodisc Chopin album.
BTW, I'm sorry that Ivan Moravec never recorded either of the Chopin concertos. In his early-80's master class I was in, he played a couple of parts of the E-minor Concerto, but I guess he never played it in public (?).
will measure up to the Zimerman above.
He gets just about everything right, even the things he does different seem suddenly right.
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there are a ton of pieces of music that I have an imprinted version in my mind where hearing one small note played a slightly different way will jar me but it soon passes and I can enjoy an entirely different interpretation of a piece I dearly love.
Good example is above. Everyone loves a Gershwin tune, even Vaclav Neumann!
My new favorite Concerto in F.
I love that recording, even though it's getting a bit long in the tooth sonically.
Of course, it was OK to do the Cuban Overture at that time, since Cuba was a fraternal socialist nation! ;-)
Just about every measure. I listened a couples times in an effort to acclimate, but no luck. The orchestral intro to the 2nd movt of the 2nd is really slow, Bruckner slow.
. . . some listeners might consider that second Zimerman DG recording mannered, but I'm just astonished by the perfection and unity of expression between soloist and orchestra. No other recording comes close in that regard. That of course doesn't mean that other (entirely legitimate and more conventional) interpretive approaches aren't also possible.
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