Saturday Essential Classics

[zola]

Schumann feature...Florestan and Eusebius, blah, blah, Clara, blah, blah, year of song, blah, blah. Followed by Rhapsody in frigging Blue and the Enigma Variations.

[LMcD]

Schumann feature...Florestan and Eusebius, blah, blah, Clara, blah, blah, year of song, blah, blah. Followed by Rhapsody in frigging Blue and the Enigma Variations.

Yes, but did you enjoy it?

[gradus]

There's always the off-switch.
The recordings of the 5 pieces chosen were not my habitual choices but were/are special to Lucy Parham and I always find it interesting when a musician chooses favourite performances. I'd hazard a guess that the Humoreske is not widely known, so it was good to have it included.

[zola]

There's always the off-switch.
The recordings of the 5 pieces chosen were not my habitual choices but were/are special to Lucy Parham and I always find it interesting when a musician chooses favourite performances. I'd hazard a guess that the Humoreske is not widely known, so it was good to have it included.

...and closing the show we have the little heard Variations on a Theme of Paganini. Of course there is always the off switch and the increasingly rarely used on switch as far as Radio 3 is concerned.
Actually, I thought it was a splendid performance of the Humoreske by Richard Goode in the snippet we heard.

[edashtav]

There's always the off-switch.
The recordings of the 5 pieces chosen were not my habitual choices but were/are special to Lucy Parham and I always find it interesting when a musician chooses favourite performances. I'd hazard a guess that the Humoreske is not widely known, so it was good to have it included.

The Schumann selection was peachy.

[pastoralguy]

I often work Saturday mornings so it was a bit of an occasion for me to hear this at home. I enjoyed the selections including the 'Enigma Variations' especially in the light of the fact that I've bought Mrs. PG this Litton Elgar/Holst cd for Christmas

It was good to know she won't be crying into her plum duff after a disappointing rendition of said masterpiece!

[Barbirollians]

The Schumann selection was peachy.

I agree her choice of the VPO/Bernstein Rhenish clearly discomforted A McG which was amusing.

[LMcD]

I agree her choice of the VPO/Bernstein Rhenish clearly discomforted A McG which was amusing.

I'm a little confused by ## 5 and 7 - isn't 'peachy' good?

[jayne lee wilson]

The Schumann selection was peachy.

This was part of Summer Record Review wasn't it?
Which 5 works did Lucy Parham choose, in which recordings...?

I'll try to catch up later, but if she chose Bernstein, my choices probably won't match...(sometimes the more interesting thing...)


I adore Schumann....
Off the top of - my top 5 - well, selections from....

Symphonies - COE/Nézet-Séguin
Concertos - Soloists/Freiburg Baroque/Heras-Casado
Violin Sonatas - Maalismaa/Holmström (New Release)....
Piano Trios - Melnikov/Faust/Queyras (c/w concertos as above)
String Quartets - Leipzig Quartet

[LMcD]

This was part of Summer Record Review wasn't it?
Which 5 works did Lucy Parham choose, in which recordings...?

I'll try to catch up later, but if she chose Bernstein, my choices probably won't match...(sometimes the more interesting thing...)

Introduction and Allegro Appassionato - Andras Schiff/VPO
Frauenliebe und Leben 'Nun hast du mir...' - Ferrier/Walter
Humoreske - Richard Goode
Piano Quartet - 3rd movement - Cleveland Quartet
Rhenish - VPO/Bernstein

[jayne lee wilson]

Introduction and Allegro Appassionato - Andras Schiff/VPO
Frauenliebe und Leben 'Nun hast du mir...' - Ferrier/Walter
Humoreske - Richard Goode
Piano Quartet - 3rd movement - Cleveland Quartet
Rhenish - VPO/Bernstein

Thanks.... come on Lucy, stir yourself, quite a few more recent ones (!), try to keep up now.....!

There's a very useful magazine you may have heard of, been around for a while.... called Gramophone....

[gradus]

It was a selection of her favourite recordings of each piece -Schiff and Goode aren't that old are they?. Daresay she could easily have chosen 5 more modern recordings but faves are faves..

[edashtav]

I'm a little confused by ## 5 and 7 - isn't 'peachy' good?

I meant peachy to mean lovely like a warm embrace, LMcD!

[Tony Halstead]

It was a selection of her favourite recordings of each piece -Schiff and Goode aren't that old are they?. Daresay she could easily have chosen 5 more modern recordings but faves are faves..

That Richard Goode recording of Schumann Humoreske, although beautifully played, featured an horrendous piano whose tuner had evidently decided to stick rigidly to what his tuning machine, (set no doubt to 'equal temperament'), dictated.
Absolutely no 'octave stretching' and absolutely no mollification of the 'D', functioning as a major 3rd in Bb major and a 'perfect 5th' in G minor. Oh dear. This great pianist deserved a more human, less robotic, more sensitive piano tuner.

[visualnickmos]

Thanks.... come on Lucy, stir yourself, quite a few more recent ones (!), try to keep up now.....!

There's a very useful magazine you may have heard of, been around for a while.... called Gramophone....

I thought the brief was for her to choose her favourites, and not with the caveat that they had to be 'recent'