In Reply to: Amphissa - I salute you! posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 2, 2010 at 00:40:20:
I do too. However, it is fiendishly difficult to draw out the line from all the gazzillion notes of gnarliness, so I've only heard 2 recordings that I think are really good. The best IMO by a huge margin is Yakov Kasman's live performance during the Van Cliburn competition. I'm convinced that performance won him the silver. It was really quite spectacular, probably contributed to because of the intensity of live performance. There are a few studio recordings that are pretty good. But most performers just don't get it and its a waste of time listening to them.
I keep waiting for some intrepid virtuoso to tackle the complete score. No one, to my knowledge, has ever played the complete version but Rachmaninoff himself.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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Follow Ups
- Sonata 1 - Amphissa 07:25:30 04/02/10 (2)
- So is that a similar situation to the Second Sonata? - Chris from Lafayette 11:21:45 04/02/10 (1)
- Agree - Amphissa 16:53:18 04/02/10 (0)