But what's his specialty (what he loves to play most)? Every pianist has strengths with certain comps.
Richter - Beethoven, Schumann, Rachman
Brendel, Kempff - Beeth, Schubert
etc
Sokolov is quite amazing with Chopin and Prokofiev
But what's his specialty (what he loves to play most)? Every pianist has strengths with certain comps.
Richter - Beethoven, Schumann, Rachman
Brendel, Kempff - Beeth, Schubert
etc
He only records in complete live performances, never in studios so his discography is limited. But from what I heard,
Bach rachmaninoff chopin, schubert they are all exceptional
Sokolov is quite amazing with Chopin and Prokofiev
He only records in complete live performances, never in studios so his discography is limited. But from what I heard,
Bach rachmaninoff chopin, schubert they are all exceptional
^ Always Ludwig, Quinto!
And Wolfie too never forget Him.
It must have been an amazing period in Vienna. Wolfie praising Ludwig as a musician of real significance (paraphrasing).
Haydn lauding Wolfie (in a letter to Leopold) as "the greatest composer known to me".
I've been looking into this, and planning on blogging on the subject for a while (just need to finally get it finished), but the meaning of musical directions has changed over the years. Now we seem to take them as a straight indication of speed, but originally they were often more about attitude. For example, allegro meant "cheerful" (and still does in Italian) which suggests moving forward with some energy but not necessarily "fast".
There is a lot of confusion about andante, which a lot of people think means "at walking pace" - which of course could mean almost any tempo. In fact, this was originally a reference to the "walking bass" style of continuo, so is a direction to bring out this aspect of the music, implying a certain deliberateness of tempo. Although this meaning faded somewhat, it does seem to be the overt meaning of the direction for the slow mvt of Prokofiev's 2nd violin concerto.
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Actually I think even the slowest versions still have the "con moto" quality that qualifies it as allegretto. AFAIK, no-one has actually tried to make it sound like the Symphony 3 funeral march (if they did it would probably be about 20 minutes long!). This IS sort of relevant, as questions of interpretation relate directly to what might be considered "best" in classical recordings,but if not feel free to consider this the Final Word.That's all good and fine but the attitude of many recordings of LvB 7.II is "grave", or at least nowhere near "allegretto". I'm all for interpretive breadth, but at some point this and this are getting so far apart it's hard to call them the same piece. Whatever we want allegretto to mean it can't mean both these things. But that's all I'll say, as it seems people consider such talk "off-topic."
BTW, CanadianMaestro sent me a lovely private email and we are all friends again. Cheers!
^ @leomitch: Thumbs up. I have several Beaux Arts Trio sets (Haydn complete Piano Trios, beeth, Mozart, some Schubert) and they are always enjoyable.
As for whiskey, I prefer red wine and Port. Belgian beer too. My liver's too precious.
Mine is too and normally I would be drinking Yellowtail Shiraz from Australia, but I needed something a little stronger today as my COPD is being a beggar more than usual!
Warm regards
Leo
Hmmmm....I'm not an MD, but I didn't know that hard liquor could reduce COPD congestion. If anything, alcohol would suppress respiration....
Take care.