Strange comment this morning re. non-availability of Joshua Rifkin's version of BWV 216. Not only is it listed as being in stock at Tower, Japan, it was also included in the Bach Christmas marathon in 2005 on Radio 3. Some one has clear been doing their homework.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostStrange comment this morning re. non-availability of Joshua Rifkin's version of BWV 216. Not only is it listed as being in stock at Tower, Japan, it was also included in the Bach Christmas marathon in 2005 on Radio 3. Some one has clear been doing their homework.
If there were an easily-available copy at a more reasonable price I wd certainly want it!
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... well, a copy at over £21 only to be found on a Japanese site - it's not easily available as far as I can see. I certainly couldn't find it using my normal searching skills. I don't think his comment was all that strange.
If there were an easily-available copy at a more reasonable price I wd certainly want it!
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I could not agree with Andrew McGregor about the Rostropovitch/Britten live 1961 Aldeburgh recording of the Arpeggione sonata, an extract of which he played before today's BaL. He suggested that it displaced the Decca recording which they later made of this work, making the latter sound flat and lifeless by comparison. For me that recording is one of the great chamber music recordings of the last century. And the recording quality is superb, so that it brings out fully the wonderful quality of Britten's accompaniment, whereas the 1961 Aldeburgh recording rather obscured that, with the piano sounding somewhat in the background.
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Originally posted by aeolium View PostI could not agree with Andrew McGregor about the Rostropovitch/Britten live 1961 Aldeburgh recording of the Arpeggione sonata, an extract of which he played before today's BaL. He suggested that it displaced the Decca recording which they later made of this work, making the latter sound flat and lifeless by comparison. For me that recording is one of the great chamber music recordings of the last century. And the recording quality is superb, so that it brings out fully the wonderful quality of Britten's accompaniment, whereas the 1961 Aldeburgh recording rather obscured that, with the piano sounding somewhat in the background.
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A very good discussion by Marina Frolova-Beethoven (with little nods of encouragement from AMcG) of two recent sets of recordings of the complete Scriabin Piano Sonatas this morning. Two very different sets of insights into the works by Peter Donohoe on SOMM, and Garrick Ohlssen on BRIDGE were illustrated. I want both - these are terrific works that I have only very recently returned to after many a year not listening to them - but I agreed that the Lancastrian pianist had something very special indeed to communicate from the works.
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostA very good discussion by Marina Frolova-Beethoven (with little nods of encouragement from AMcG) of two recent sets of recordings of the complete Scriabin Piano Sonatas this morning. Two very different sets of insights into the works by Peter Donohoe on SOMM, and Garrick Ohlssen on BRIDGE were illustrated. I want both - these are terrific works that I have only very recently returned to after many a year not listening to them - but I agreed that the Lancastrian pianist had something very special indeed to communicate from the works.
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I also got a lot out of this discussion, love Marina ! I do part company with Scriabin as his mid-period turns into his late period (both piano and orchestral works) - but his early stuff is right up my street. Fascinating to hear those transitions illustrated clearly in this discussion...
However, I would have welcomed some more direct comparative musical illustrations - they discussed the difference between the two pianists in various works and sections of works, but I don't think we ever had the same excerpt played by each so that we could hear a direct comparison.
I must say, I liked the crystalline clarity of Ohlsson's recording - at least as it came over on the bedside Pure DAB radio. Donohoe's playing was immense but the use of pedal plus recording quality seemed to give a much 'wetter' piano sound which appealed to me less.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
"There is not much to see here," said I.
"Nor to hear, miss," returned Mr Vholes. "A little music does occasionally stray in; but we are not musical in the law, and soon eject it."
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... perhaps someone should tell him that (at least, he has led us to believe) : he has left the Law now. He is a civilian...
Something more Calibanesque, perhaps?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by aeolium View PostI could not agree with Andrew McGregor about the Rostropovitch/Britten live 1961 Aldeburgh recording of the Arpeggione sonata, an extract of which he played before today's BaL. He suggested that it displaced the Decca recording which they later made of this work, making the latter sound flat and lifeless by comparison. For me that recording is one of the great chamber music recordings of the last century. And the recording quality is superb, so that it brings out fully the wonderful quality of Britten's accompaniment, whereas the 1961 Aldeburgh recording rather obscured that, with the piano sounding somewhat in the background.
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I also got a lot out of this discussion, love Marina ! I do part company with Scriabin as his mid-period turns into his late period (both piano and orchestral works) - but his early stuff is right up my street. Fascinating to hear those transitions illustrated clearly in this discussion...
However, I would have welcomed some more direct comparative musical illustrations - they discussed the difference between the two pianists in various works and sections of works, but I don't think we ever had the same excerpt played by each so that we could hear a direct comparison.
I must say, I liked the crystalline clarity of Ohlsson's recording - at least as it came over on the bedside Pure DAB radio. Donohoe's playing was immense but the use of pedal plus recording quality seemed to give a much 'wetter' piano sound which appealed to me less.
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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