Radio 3 - 1300 today Haskill and Osborne

[Pianorak]

R3 - today 13:00

Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, KV330
Clara Haskil, piano

Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Ives: Three-page Sonata
Osborne: Improvisation
Kapustin: 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Nos 3, 7, 18, 23 & 25
Oscar Peterson: Indiana
Young: My Foolish Heart
Steven Osborne, piano.

[french frank]

Interesting to hear what jazz enthusiasts think of Osborne's performance (they usually don't rate classical musicians in jazz). Kapustin has been performed by Osborne for a while, but what he'll make of the jazz classics I don't know. Haskil's K330 more to my taste . Don't know the Ives.

R3 - today 13:00

Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, KV330
Clara Haskil, piano

Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Ives: Three-page Sonata
Osborne: Improvisation
Kapustin: 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Nos 3, 7, 18, 23 & 25
Oscar Peterson: Indiana
Young: My Foolish Heart
Steven Osborne, piano.

[gradus]

I've heard Mr Osborne play My Foolish Heart as an encore in Bill Evans style and beautiful. Should be a great recital as ever with him.

[rauschwerk]

Mr Osborne's recording of a selection of those Kapustin preludes is thoroughly idiomatic, and this gives me every confidence that his grasp of jazz styles is sound.

[Serial_Apologist]

Interesting to hear what jazz enthusiasts think of Osborne's performance (they usually don't rate classical musicians in jazz). Kapustin has been performed by Osborne for a while, but what he'll make of the jazz classics I don't know. Haskil's K330 more to my taste . Don't know the Ives.

Richard Rodney Bennett could be pretty convincing as a jazz pianist, though his improvised phrasing was a often tad wooden; it was his singing that was simply awful, utterly cringeworthy, though Claire Martin would I'm certain disagree...

[Serial_Apologist]

I've heard Mr Osborne play My Foolish Heart as an encore in Bill Evans style and beautiful. Should be a great recital as ever with him.

Being part of the jazz world and being influenced by Bill Evans is fine, especially for a jazz beginner needing to start from somewhere, though one would always eventually hope for something additional to a style already added to by many since Bill Evans's contributions; I personally wouldn't go out of my way to hear someone from essentially outside that tradition mimicking Bill Evans, or anybody else. A classical pianist performing, say Scott Joplin or Eubie Blake rags would be a different matter, given that these have been written down or preserved as piano rolls to be played to scores.

[gradus]

It wasn't a copy/transcription just stylistically linked imv, interesting to hear what he does today, Oscar Peterson is also mentioned on the programme - did someone say Art Tatum.

[Quarky]

I dare say everyone has their views on this performance.

In terms of a performance, I rated the Ives very highly. Interested to hear Steven's non-Jazz improvisation.

In terms of Jazz, I preferred My Foolish Heart to Oscar's Indiana. While Steven may have the speed and dexterity of Oscar, what distinguished Oscar was a rock solid inner rhythm, even when playing at break-neck speed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdd5pn1xs7M). But I daresay everyone else has sussed that out, too.

[johnb]

These "historic" EIF broadcasts are very interesting - I was fascinated to hear Ferrier accompanied by Bruno Walter yesterday. I'll catch up on today's later.

However, as is so often the case with R3's lunchtime "concerts" these EIF compilations are very bity - taking pieces from here and there, with a logic that sometimes escapes me.

Incidentally the Osborne EIF concert was broadcast in full (?) in 2010 and the programme was:

Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
Gershwin - Three Preludes
Ives - 3 Page Sonata
Crumb - Processional
Osborne - Improvisation
Kapustin - 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Nos 3, 7, 18, 23, 25
Oscar Peterson - Indiana
Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales
Rachmaninov - Vars on a Theme of Corelli Op 31

[gradus]

Shame that the Ravel wasn't broadcast, I heard him play it live at Snape and it was memorable.