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In Reply to: "A bit...melodramatic?" - No, not at all posted by Chris from Lafayette on October 6, 2020 at 17:57:25:
I'm falling out of love with the Lortie Chopin Ballades for the same reason but he doesn't apply the "stop and go" routine elsewhere. Except for some of the Mazurkas.
But then there's the Chandos sound.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - HDTT's Rach 2 Rubinstein/Reiner transfer: buy for the artistry, not the sound - jdaniel@jps.net 11:50:24 10/04/20 (53)
- RE: What was often heard along with the Rach 2 but seldom played anymore - B. Scarpia 23:31:09 10/05/20 (10)
- I love that piece! - Chris from Lafayette 09:27:54 10/06/20 (9)
- I heard it Live with SFO/Thibaudet and didn't get it at all, seemed like the kind of Liszt that is caricatured - jdaniel@jps.net 15:17:47 10/06/20 (5)
- Hint: it's just a theme and variations [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:15:52 10/06/20 (4)
- Your point? : ) It still sounded like bombastic, empty rhetoric to me. All downhill from the Dies Irae theme - jdaniel@jps.net 16:43:32 10/06/20 (3)
- Re: Your point? - Chris from Lafayette 17:40:24 10/06/20 (2)
- Re: Your point? - rivervalley817 18:33:16 10/06/20 (0)
- Hey, I said I'll try it again! : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 18:06:36 10/06/20 (0)
- RE: I love that piece! - B. Scarpia 09:37:37 10/06/20 (2)
- RE: ??? nt - B. Scarpia 12:37:26 10/06/20 (0)
- Wait - did I misunderstand? Is that YOU in the trombone closeups? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 12:16:40 10/06/20 (0)
- This one for me will ALWAYS be my go to.... - TWB 15:12:10 10/05/20 (0)
- rach 2 has a near definitive recording (IMO) - DrChaos 23:50:08 10/04/20 (19)
- another good Rach 2nd is Earl Wild - oldvinyl 10:13:14 10/05/20 (1)
- I agree about that Wild performance - Chris from Lafayette 12:50:54 10/05/20 (0)
- I don't even like the Richter - Analog Scott 07:36:40 10/05/20 (9)
- For me, it's no so much erratic as imaginative - de gustibus and all that! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:08:33 10/05/20 (8)
- Enclosed is where I personally lost it with Richter - jdaniel@jps.net 17:01:23 10/06/20 (5)
- RE: Enclosed is where I personally lost it with Richter - alc777 19:44:23 10/06/20 (2)
- Thank you but my very humble issue revolved around the brake/accelerate rubato not sound quality. - jdaniel@jps.net 19:57:19 10/06/20 (1)
- Thanks. Got it. /nt - alc777 20:00:27 10/06/20 (0)
- "A bit...melodramatic?" - No, not at all - Chris from Lafayette 17:57:25 10/06/20 (1)
- Perhaps, but I deal with enough "stop and go" on the way home. : ) - jdaniel@jps.net 18:10:51 10/06/20 (0)
- I know it's different but couldn't we call Lang Lang's Bach "imaginitive?" - Analog Scott 11:25:24 10/05/20 (1)
- It's a personal judgement - you can always say that. . . - Chris from Lafayette 12:18:49 10/05/20 (0)
- I appreciate your enthusiasm but Richter's performance was a bit too fussy for my tastes, IIRC - jdaniel@jps.net 07:11:51 10/05/20 (5)
- rubato & richter - DrChaos 13:59:11 10/05/20 (3)
- Whoah, Chaos! You're really on the road to perdition now! - Chris from Lafayette 15:55:37 10/05/20 (2)
- Absolutism rears it's ugly head. : ) - jdaniel@jps.net 15:26:58 10/06/20 (1)
- Hey - don't give me a bum rap either! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:28:05 10/06/20 (0)
- I think he pulls it off, but that is of course very much personal taste [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 10:14:51 10/05/20 (0)
- No doubt - that Richter recording is a great one! - Chris from Lafayette 00:40:18 10/05/20 (0)
- Regardless of the bad feelings and ill will engendered by that recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 12:57:37 10/04/20 (20)
- RE: Regardless of the bad feelings and ill will engendered by that recording. . . - jdaniel@jps.net 14:50:20 10/04/20 (3)
- There are Dutton remasters of a couple of those titles - Chris from Lafayette 15:01:02 10/04/20 (2)
- RE: There are Dutton remasters of a couple of those titles - jdaniel@jps.net 15:08:45 10/04/20 (1)
- Always glad to contribute to geezer nostalgia! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 15:19:17 10/04/20 (0)
- Rubinstein Reiner has been reissued - oldvinyl 14:33:51 10/04/20 (15)
- I'm generally a big fan of the Acoustic Sounds Living Stereo remasters [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 14:46:00 10/04/20 (14)
- Me too - oldvinyl 14:54:07 10/04/20 (9)
- That reminds me though. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:25:33 10/04/20 (8)
- we can guide you through turntable selection ... - oldvinyl 19:43:36 10/04/20 (5)
- More power to you, and I'm sure you're right about the improvements, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 00:42:46 10/05/20 (4)
- Third Channel - briggs 09:02:39 10/05/20 (3)
- Not just third channel - discreet third channel [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:05:24 10/05/20 (2)
- sound imaging - oldvinyl 10:20:44 10/05/20 (1)
- Dunno, for me, a discrete center channel (as RCA originally recorded Rubinstein/Reiner). . . - Chris from Lafayette 12:26:10 10/05/20 (0)
- RE: That reminds me though. . . - jdaniel@jps.net 16:35:49 10/04/20 (1)
- I've heard it - just not for a long time [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 16:58:51 10/04/20 (0)
- I'm interested but they haven't offered that final set for download yet. One would think it would be a - jdaniel@jps.net 14:52:35 10/04/20 (2)
- RE: I'm interested but they haven't offered that final set for download yet. One would think it would be a - oldvinyl 14:56:20 10/04/20 (1)
- Bax's 2nd on Lp is just magical. - jdaniel@jps.net 15:05:12 10/04/20 (0)
- (Actually, Analog Productions) [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 14:50:51 10/04/20 (0)
Follow Ups
- Perhaps, but I deal with enough "stop and go" on the way home. : ) - jdaniel@jps.net 18:10:51 10/06/20 (0)