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Headphoneus Supremus
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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.
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-Putin).
You got that the wrong way around
oops. should have known.
A favorite of mine:
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.
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.
^ Sounds even better with a Guinness in hand.