Debussy Preludes and other bits

[Bryn]

I don’t know that she recorded the Preludes, BBm, although she did a fine disc of the etudes

I think the Études might be said to qualify as "other bits".

[silvestrione]

This session could have proved expensive for me, but fortunately I already had the Osborne. I have ordered the Cho, which was delightful. Perhaps, in the end, the Hough was just a little over-pedalled for me, and I checked the Harriet Smith Gramophone review, where the word 'arch' appeared, which is enough for me...it is that quality that puts me off him, all (that I have tried) except the Liszt concerto disc, where he is completely in his element, in live performances.

[BBMmk2]

I don’t know that she recorded the Preludes, BBm, although she did a fine disc of the etudes

Ah yes, I have that recording too! Now you mention it, she hasn’t has she!

[kea]

Such a pity that the 4 CD set issue of the Saga set was incomplete*. Good to have what was included though.

*Missing from the CDs, though present in the 6 LP box, are:

Masques
L'Isle Joyeuse
Rèverie
the 3 Éstampes
Valse Romantique
Petit Négre

She appears not to have recorded the third of the Images Oubliées, Quelques aspects de Nous n'irons plus au bois parce qu’il fait un temps insupportable.

Is this the same as or different from the recordings released on Hyperion? I have those and am a fan.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is this the same as or different from the recordings released on Hyperion? I have those and am a fan.

Different - the SAGA recordings date from about twenty years earlier than the Hyperions.

[Bryn]

Is this the same as or different from the recordings released on Hyperion? I have those and am a fan.

These are rather earlier analogue recordings originally issued on LP between 1974 and 1981. The LPs I have are in a boxed set of German pressings, rather better than the standard UK Saga pressings. I too also have the Hyperion CDs which were recorded in 1990 and 1991.

[kea]

Cheers all. I will keep an eye out for the Saga issues.

[Bryn]

Cheers all. I will keep an eye out for the Saga issues.

Here's a starting point for the CD box. I think I had better back up mu set to hard disc, just in case.

The LP boxed set of 6 is even more like hen's teeth.

[BBMmk2]

I’m rather a fan of both Hough and Osborne, was wondering about getting their respective recordings?

[gradus]

I’m rather a fan of both Hough and Osborne, was wondering about getting their respective recordings?

Me too, especially of SO's jazz-tinged phrasing in one of the BAL excerpts.

[Barbirollians]

Me too, especially of SO's jazz-tinged phrasing in one of the BAL excerpts.

I didn't warm to the jazzed up Poissons D' Or at all.

[Barbirollians]

Seong-Jun Cho's recording arrived yesterday.

I am immensely impressed by it . Extremely sensitive limpid, poetic and idiomatic playing . Both sets of Images are quite wonderful and heavens can he play quietly .Mouvement and Poissons d'Or in particular have a sensitivity missing from Osborne's recording extracts played on Record Review .

Immediately prompted to order his recent Chopin disc .

[Beresford]

I was most taken with the Cho extracts - Osborne is too hard edged for me in this repertoire for all his extraordinary skill . Then again nobody has ever shifted me from my devotion to Livia Rev's Saga recordings of Debussy piano music .

I notice from the France Musique website that Livia Rev has died aged 101.

https://www.francemusique.fr/actualite-musicale/la-grande-pianiste-livia-rev-est-morte-60622

http://liviarev.com/fr/