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In Reply to: RE: No one is advocating mediocre performances - there are heaps of excellent modern interpretations .... posted by John C. - Aussie on December 10, 2011 at 15:56:41
There's no other like Richter today as I can see.His story telling transcends crappy recording.
Then again, I get a kick out of Paderewski's record even. ( here's 'nother pianist who had that special something )
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The only two recent pianists I like better than Sokolov are Stephen Hough and Ayako Uehara...............
Any Schubert or Beethoven pieces you can recommend by him?
Or can you recommend me the piece you think he's on par with Richter.
Thanks!
I see that a new Sokolov Complete Recordings Box Set was just released last month.
I'll give it a shot.
A little excerpt from YouTube:
it should give me a good cross section of what he does.
Along with Schubert's No.21, It also contains Prokofiev's No.8 & 9 which I can compared to Richter. ( '61 DG Stereo & '58 Monitor Mono LPs)
Call me crazy but I am not a big fan of DVD watching of concerts. I enjoy biography and what not but all that visual stuff distracts me from actually listening to the contents.
I think YouTube is cool just to sample some new music but watching above segment, all I could think of was 'Ginsu Knife~'.
Anyways, looking forward to Sokolov vs Richter. :)
Sokolov has a double CD set of the Schubert G-major and B-flat-major Sonatas - yes, I think the B-flat is comparable to Richter's.
He's got several Beethoven Sonatas too - all of them comparable to Richter's. His recording of the Diabelli Variations is a bit more problematical - it doesn't hit its stride until he's about a third of the way through. He has a recording of the Hammerklavier (I'd guess it's hard to find these days) which features a rather slow tempo for the final fugue - but his articulation of the subject is very detached, which keeps up the liveliness and injects air into the textures. Like Richter, Sokolov is often a very original thinker, even if you don't always like what he comes up with.
I agree with Todd's recommendation of the Chopin Etudes Op. 25. I've heard no better performance of this complete set - recorded in concert BTW.
"Or can you recommend me the piece you think he's on par with Richter."
Chopin Etudes Op. 25........... Richter was great, but Sokolov was great too...............
Richter is maybe the best example to demonstrate how one could listen through a bad analog recording and still hear a great performance, where a bad digital recording (or digitization of a bad analog recording) would make him think he's listening to a "mediocre" performance...........Another example of this is George Szell.............
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I love many of his performance in spite crappy RCA records.
He also had a strong style as Szell ( albeit different ) in that it really doesn't matter if all of audiophile trimmings are not there as stylistic charms still come through.
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Enjoying over 8000 CDs via Sennheiser HD800 headphones & a NuForce DAC9 on a Meridian Sooloos system
"Richter had more talent in his smallest fart than Lang Lang and Kissin have in their entire body."
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