[CanadianMaestro]

Cortot never recorded the transcendental as far as I am aware but who knows, he would have made sublime poetry out of these etudes! His b minor sonta is still my reference recording. You are too mean about his hissing!

He's not hissing. The recording is full of hisses....the rec engineers were asleep?
 

 
thank god for Bach's cello suites..

 
Fournier is still my fav recording. He has such a poetic touch with these suites. Don't care for Starker or Rostropovich.

 

[uchihaitachi]

He's not hissing. The recording is full of hisses....the rec engineers were asleep?


Fournier is still my fav recording. He has such a poetic touch with these suites. Don't care for Starker or Rostropovich.

I thought you blamed the reptiles!

 

[Quinto]

Fournier is great, still deeply in love with my Anner Bylsma (with the Stradivarius Servais) recording.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

I thought you blamed the reptiles!

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Magnificent set.
 

 

 

[uchihaitachi]

DISCLAIMER - TOTAL hissfest (at least few hundred reptiles), but a godlike recording nonetheless!

 
 
 
 
 
Fascinating video description.
 
In his book "Horowitz," Glen Plaskin writes,"the french master (Cortot)did give him(Horowitz) occasional lessons and assignments. These began in 1928 and continued sporadically for the next few years. Cortot was struck by the clarity and projection of Horowitz's tone but showed distain for the idea of making a career on temperament and technical brilliance. 'Horowitz has a great genius for getting things ready for performance' Cortot would tell his students. But Cortot made no secret of his reservations about Horowitz's intellect,and was never convinced that as a performer he desired to be a re-creator in service of the composer. A Cortot pupil,Thomas Manshardt,remembered that Cortot believed Horowitz 'came to study in order to discover how he,Cortot, managed the double notes in the Etude en Forme d'une Valse by Saint-Saens,which Horowitz concidered a miracle of velocity and light brilliancy as played by Cortot. Cortot thought this an inadequate reason for studying. Years later he gleefully declared "I never told him how it was done." '

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Somehow, I have not warmed to Horowitz's recs of Romantic/post-Romantic composers. I do like Rubinstein's Chopin.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

  DISCLAIMER - TOTAL hissfest (at least few hundred reptiles), but a godlike recording nonetheless!

 
 
 
 

LOL Escaped from the Galapagos.....

 

[inanevoyage]

If I absolutely adore Bach's No. 5 in C Minor, especially how it explores the deepest range of Cello, what else would I like?
 

 

[jegnyc]

The other five?  

 
How about the two Brahms cello sonatas, especially the dark toned first.

 

[Quinto]

 
 
Cello!

 

[inanevoyage]

Great stuff, thank you!

 

[jegnyc]

Kodaly and Britten both wrote wonderful pieces for solo cello.
 

 

 

[Head1]

I like Dezső Ránki in this Schubert sonata:
 

 
 
Also been listening to another Hungarian pianist, who sadly passed away recently.
 
RIP Zoltan Kocsis:
 

 

[Fugue]

I just bought Kocsis' Liszt Concertos--staggeringly good.