I've just been to an unexpectedly rather wonderful piano recital by David Kaddouch here in steamy HK which featured this work which, if I've heard it before, I didn't remember it. I was bowled over by the music (and the virtuosic but unshowy performance on a very fine Steinway in a sympathetic acoustic). Recommendations from our resident Lisztians most gratefully received
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My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson) -
Brendel’s first Philips recording won a Gramophone Award. (His second ‘live’ recording was omitted from Philips’ Complete Recordings box)Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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Belatedly, thanks to Parry 1912. I am now back in the French hovel where the big Brendel box lives and have been able to access his recording. It is an astonishing work - and Brendel's performance strikes me as being almost perfect.Comment
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You may be interested to hear the Variations on 'Weinen, Klagen, Zorgen, Zagen' for organ.
Played here by Vincent Dubois (Titulaire of Soissons Cathedral) on the Oberlinger organ of St Joseph Bonn-Beuel (2011).
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Talking boxes, I have the 8CD Brilliant Classics Maria Yudina archive recordings which contains her 1950 performance of Weinen, Klagen which Richter call "unparalleled". On YouTube - with score.Comment
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Hate to be a bit pedantic, but Brendel's second recording was not live, but made in 1989 in Walthamstow Town Hall. The earlier, slightly preferable, version is from 1977 (a great recording in my book). There is a live youtube version, in a recital that includes the 'Diabelli'.Originally posted by Parry1912 View PostComment
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You are, of course, quite correct. Goodness knows what I was thinking of.
Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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