TtN - Clara Haskil

[Dave2002]

Erm, Clara Haskil, yes

I'll take that as a NO then for the spaghetti guys! I had thought it might be worth - just for once - going to the Film prom, and maybe even staying on later for the Italian menu. With the riots around though perhaps best not to bother.

Did you listen to the Haskil via the link I posted? Some of the orchestral playing was a bit rough I thought, but I might give it another try.

PS: If you use the Swedish site, then if you click on the down arrow on the Min Radio button you might see

Byt ljudkvalitet: Lag Mellan Hog [shown minus accents here - do we do accents yet?]

This means Change the sound quality: Low Medium High so selecting Hog might give slightly better results.

[vinteuil]

Byt ljudkvalitet: Lag Mellan Hog [shown minus accents here - do we do accents yet?]

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"Låg; Mellan; Hög"

[french frank]

I'll take that as a NO then for the spaghetti guys! I had thought it might be worth - just for once - going to the Film prom, and maybe even staying on later for the Italian menu.

It was more the programme of Morricone that didn't appeal to me.

Did you listen to the Haskil via the link I posted? Some of the orchestral playing was a bit rough I thought, but I might give it another try.

PS: If you use the Swedish site, then if you click on the down arrow on the Min Radio button you might see

Byt ljudkvalitet: Lag Mellan Hog [shown minus accents here - do we do accents yet?]

This means Change the sound quality: Low Medium High so selecting Hog might give slightly better results.

Thanks for the repeated tip - I missed your earlier post. Already on Hög ... You may be right about the orchestra. My attention is riveted on Haskil's playing

[Dave2002]

It was more the programme of Morricone that didn't appeal to me.
Thanks for the repeated tip - I missed your earlier post. Already on Hög ... You may be right about the orchestra. My attention is riveted on Haskil's playing

The last movement of K595 is rather striking. Very clipped articulation from CH and the orchestra at the outset - definitely worth hearing. However, did she record it with other orchestras/conductors? Obviously yes - e.g Ferenc Fricsay - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Piano.../dp/B001N2569E Perhaps the TTN version was this one from 1956 - http://allmusic.com/performance/pian...k-595-f1922407 ? Maybe this is a different version - http://musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1096hi.html - (also?) from 1956.

[aeolium]

The Radio France orchestra was not great in the D minor concerto K466 and tempi were sluggish but Haskil was very good to hear. Any idea which cadenzas were played as the first movement one was not the usual Beethoven one? Were they perhaps by Busoni?

[Dave2002]

msg 12

Spaghetti Western Orchestra?

What's that, exactly? I notice they have a late night Prom! Maybe - http://www.spaghettiwesternorchestra.com/ ....

Already commented on this, but they're apparently on In Tune shortly - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0132nyf
In the meantime, not sure what this is after the Mahler 2 - didn't pay enough attention obviously.

[french frank]

Perhaps the TTN version was this one from 1956 - http://allmusic.com/performance/pian...k-595-f1922407 ? Maybe this is a different version - http://musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1096hi.html - (also?) from 1956.

There's also a CD recording of K466 with Hindemith and the Orchestre National de France. TtN describes them as 'archive performances' so presumably on CD rather than broadcast recordings, as most are (or used to be).

[vinteuil]

There's also a CD recording of K466 with Hindemith and the Orchestre National de France.

I have Clara Haskil K466 with Henry Swoboda* and the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra (neither of which I had ever heard of... ) ; she marvellous, they a bit rough'n'ready... It's a twofer 'The 50s - The world of Clara Haskil' ["Vandisc Belvideo SA produced by Ecofina"] with Schumann cto, Schubert sta D960, and eleven Scarlattis...

[ EDIT *and not Willem van Otterloo as I originally thought - he conducts the Schumann on the other disc... ]

[Lateralthinking1]

"In my lifetime I have met three geniuses; Professor Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Clara Haskil. I am not a trained musician but I can only say that her touch was exquisite, her expression wonderful, and her technique extraordinary."

Charles Chaplin