[Light - Man]

I thought you guys might like this one.

 

[uchihaitachi]

Welcome!

I can get on board with a number of those, especially all the Fleisher/Szell collaborations and Rubinstein's Chopin.

My favorite Chopin Etudes is actually Earl Wild's, not a guy generally associated with Chopin. But don't miss Hofmann's live performance of the Butterfly Etude. Here's a taste:



I've never really understood the extravagant praise for Kleiber's Brahms 4th. It's not actively bad, but very constrained and unexpressive. Likewise, Mravinsky's Tchaikovsky.

Earl Wild has some great rachmaninoff
and hofmann's technique is astonishing.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  I thought you guys might like this one.

You know, Lisitsa was banned from performing in Toronto last summer. She had expressed online her views re. the Ukrainian conflict (she's pro-Uk, anti pro-Putin).
 
Edit: My bad. Should read "pro-Putin", Corrected).

 

[Quinto]

 
You know, Lisitsa was banned from performing in Toronto last summer. She had expressed online her views re. the Ukrainian conflict (she's pro-Uk, anti-Putin).

You got that the wrong way around

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  You got that the wrong way around

oops. should have known. 

 
A favorite of mine:
 

 

[uchihaitachi]

  oops. should have known. 

 
A favorite of mine:
 

Her rachmaninoff is splashy, rushed and just not at her best... It was exciting the first time I heard it, but I found it quite one dimensional.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Sounds good to me.....

 

[Light - Man]

I found this interesting - some may not.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Nice thick accent.  She "loves" Rachman. Said so.
Listen to how Rachman himself played them. I think there are some recs of these with him at the keyboard.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

A fine recording/coupling:
 

 

[uchihaitachi]

  Nice thick accent.  She "loves" Rachman. Said so.
Listen to how Rachman himself played them. I think there are some recs of these with him at the keyboard.

He played it very 'matter of factly' and with such ease

 

[CanadianMaestro]

I'm thinking of getting Pires/Mozart Piano Sonatas. I have Uchida, Eschenbach, Schiff. Klien is coming too.
Any thoughts?  I really enjoyed Pires' Chopin Nocturnes and Mozart Ctos.
Will also get her Schubert D.960. Have ot heard her Schubert yet.
 
cheers

 

[gHeadphone]

  Her rachmaninoff is splashy, rushed and just not at her best... It was exciting the first time I heard it, but I found it quite one dimensional.

I've a few versions of the Rach but i really like this myself, its really full of life for me.
 
I suppose beauty is in thew ear of the beholder etc

 

[CanadianMaestro]

^  Sounds even better with a Guinness in hand. 

 

[gHeadphone]

  ^  Sounds even better with a Guinness in hand. 

Ha, so does everything!