BaL 1.11.14 - Chopin: Preludes Op.28

[pastoralguy]

Kenneth Hamilton is a great bloke...a fine pianist, an academic and a witty and entertaining speaker. A sort of thinking man's David Owen Norris. What a pity therefore we are going to have a 'pre-arranged dialogue' format. Why so?

I'm intending to drive to Gateshead from Edinburgh to see this edition and will, hopefully, meet my big hero, Mr. Andrew McGregor. I'll ask him!

[Don Petter]

I'm intending to drive to Gateshead from Edinburgh to see this edition and will, hopefully, meet my big hero, Mr. Andrew McGregor. I'll ask him!

What is all this 'Sage-Gateshead' nonsense? Makes it sound like a cheese.

When did 'The Sage, in Gateshead' disappear?

[Nick Armstrong]

What is all this 'Sage-Gateshead' nonsense? Makes it sound like a cheese.

When did 'The Sage, in Gateshead' disappear?

About the same time Londoners started going to hear chamber music 'at Wigmore'.

[visualnickmos]

About the same time Londoners started going to hear chamber music 'at Wigmore'.

....followed by a walk to Tate Modern

[ardcarp]

Kids here play piano and go Tesco.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

..and when the Lindsay String Quartet stopped being a string quartet.

but the removal of "the" is probably influenced by the sheer laziness of text-speak.

[pastoralguy]

Thought I'd try to reserect this thread since the date is imminent...

[Richard Tarleton]

Both my versions are in the Great Pianists series - Jorge Bolet ("Live at Carnegie Hall"), and Marta Argerich. Both towards the barnstorming end of the spectrum. I've heard Perahia and Demidienko play them live, the latter quite recently.

[kea]

I wonder if Jean Françaix's arrangement of the Preludes for orchestra will get a mention. It's certainly interesting enough for me to revisit occasionally.

[Barbirollians]

Argerich for me - and Rubinstein in his stereo account - don't know his earlier ones.

[Pianorak]

Jorge Bolet ("Live at Carnegie Hall"),

Barnstorming - and among my favourites. Don't know the Demidenko performance but have heard him live playing the Chopin Ballades and Scherzos a couple of years ago.

[Lento]

Barenboim on Spotify makes an interesting contrast to Argerich, imv.

[silvestrione]

Argerich for me - and Rubinstein in his stereo account - don't know his earlier ones.

I thought there was only one Rubinstein, mono from 1946ish?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought there was only one Rubinstein, mono from 1946ish?

I think this is correct - in the RCA boxed set Rubinstein plays Chopin, the Preludes are the 1946 MONO recordings: everything else is Stereo from 1958 - 67.

[Don Petter]

I thought there was only one Rubinstein, mono from 1946ish?

Correct. Recorded 1946, first issued in UK in 1955, according to the Naxos re-issue.