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  • oddoneout
    Full Member
    • Nov 2015
    • 9145

    Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
    Good start to todays concert.
    I wasn't able to listen to it all, but enjoyed what I heard. Unfamiliar composers and a welcome move to a different era.

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    • JasonPalmer
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      • Dec 2022
      • 826

      Well today it started with bach, now we have some indian music. Well....i did not expect that, still, all good when you have an hour to kill,.
      Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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      • oddoneout
        Full Member
        • Nov 2015
        • 9145

        Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
        Well today it started with bach, now we have some indian music. Well....i did not expect that, still, all good when you have an hour to kill,.
        Soul Strings apparently. Not a bad thing to acknowledge that it's not just Western Europe that has music...

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        • kernelbogey
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5736

          Just remembered, half way through, to tune in to Mariam Batashvili's lunchtime concert from last Monday (29 May) - Liszt, Chopin, Schubert - highly recommended by Martin Handley* who was on presenter duty there.

          Edit: *He confessed to an ambivalence about Liszt's music (which I share) but added something about this being a convincing perormance....

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          • JasonPalmer
            Full Member
            • Dec 2022
            • 826

            Live from wigmore today, nice.
            Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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            • Ein Heldenleben
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              • Apr 2014
              • 6754

              I have to get this off my chest but I really don’t like Pletnev’s Chopin playing in this live Edinburgh recital.
              The slow tempi in the Bacarolle , the over the top agogics. The ludicrous right hand staccato in the main theme of the Polonaise Fantasie. It’s all very virtuosic and a massive piano sound but it sounds too much like Rachmaninov (piano music not his playing ) for me. Every so often there’s some wonderful phrasing but it’s all too pulled about and lacking in rhythmic drive.

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              • Pianorak
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3127

                Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                . . . The ludicrous right hand staccato in the main theme of the Polonaise Fantasie. . .
                Yes, what on earth was all that about??

                My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                • Ein Heldenleben
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2014
                  • 6754

                  Originally posted by Pianorak View Post

                  Yes, what on earth was all that about??
                  I just know. I lost count of the number of times his performance flew in the face of Chopin’s instructions - chiefly in the matter of tempo indication. I’m not sure he even played the Polonaise rhythm correctly. On the plus side his two nocturnes were fine.

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                  • JasonPalmer
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                    • Dec 2022
                    • 826

                    Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post

                    I just know. I lost count of the number of times his performance flew in the face of Chopin’s instructions - chiefly in the matter of tempo indication. I’m not sure he even played the Polonaise rhythm correctly. On the plus side his two nocturnes were fine.
                    Reminds me of a recital of chopin music i went to in dublin many years ago, was very crash bang loud, totally at odds to how i expected it to be played.
                    Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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                    • gradus
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5604

                      Poorest Chopin playing I've heard was at a Snape recital given by Andnes some years ago. He seemed utterly unengaged and wanting to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible. I suppose all artists have off-days. Contrast a recital by Steven Osborne at the same venue around the same time that confirmed Steven as an extraordinary musician and one of my favourite pianists.

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                      • Ein Heldenleben
                        Full Member
                        • Apr 2014
                        • 6754

                        This Paul Lewis performance of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto scaled down for string quartet is very , very good indeed . Exceptionally refined playing and , in the confines of the Wigmore Hall , no need to hammer the keys - not that a player of his quality ever does.

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                        • Bryn
                          Banned
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 24688

                          Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                          This Paul Lewis performance of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto scaled down for string quartet is very , very good indeed . Exceptionally refined playing and , in the confines of the Wigmore Hall , no need to hammer the keys - not that a player of his quality ever does.
                          There was/is a very fine recording of the chamber version, in a HIPP performance, by Robert Levin et al on DG. Oh, and Wigmore Hall's management would not approve of our use of the definite article in association with the hall's name.

                          I must catch up with this Paul Lewis performance.

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                          • oddoneout
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2015
                            • 9145

                            Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                            This Paul Lewis performance of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto scaled down for string quartet is very , very good indeed . Exceptionally refined playing and , in the confines of the Wigmore Hall , no need to hammer the keys - not that a player of his quality ever does.
                            I agree. It was so good that, having missed Hannah French's introduction, I didn't immediately realise it wasn't an orchestra and was just puzzled how we seemed to have jumped to Afternoon Concert!

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                            • Bryn
                              Banned
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              From the online listing, it would appear that, like Levin, Paul Lweis used not a version with string quartet but string quintet.
                              Last edited by Bryn; 11-09-23, 13:46.

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                              • Ein Heldenleben
                                Full Member
                                • Apr 2014
                                • 6754

                                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                                From the online listing, it would appear that, like Levin, Paul Lweis used not the version with string quartet but string quintet.
                                Yes indeed - added double bass.

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