BaL 24.12.16/10.12.22 - Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 in C, K467

[vinteuil]

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... I don't think he referred to Schoonderwoerd at all - nor yet Viviana Sofronitsky.

[verismissimo]

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... nor yet Viviana Sofronitsky.

... whose set is very much filled with musical pleasures.

[Bryn]

I haven't had time to catch this but - was there any mention of my current favourites, Schoonderwoerd or Brautigam?

Brautigam, yes, and as ISTR he was runner-up in the fortepiano options.

[vinteuil]

Particularly liked the Gilels - think I'll have to find a copy.

... embarrassing confession time - - I thought I was bein' so clever puttin' in a swift order for a Gilels, on offer cheaply -

http://amzn.eu/dZUlg0X

Only realizing later that DON had been referring to Gilels with Kondrashin / USSR SSO and not with Konwitschny / Leipzig Gewandhaus.

Sadly I think not enuff pennies in the piggy bank for the Kondrashin at the moment -

http://amzn.eu/hy3yveV

Still, I'm sure the Konwitschny will be interesting ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's rather sad that Ingrid Haebler's beautiful recording is now deemed unworthy of being available.

[vinteuil]

It's rather sad that Ingrid Haebler's beautiful recording is now deemed unworthy of being available.

... well, it is available - at a price...

http://amzn.eu/80CarPT

[ I got it for quite a lot less... ]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... well, it is available - at a price...

http://amzn.eu/80CarPT

[ I got it for quite a lot less... ]

For another £42, you can buy the composer's complete works plus extras.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... well, it is available - at a price...

... and, at another price:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Piano-Concertos-Nos-21/dp/B001N21ADA

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and, if you're quick, and don't mind second-hand:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Piano-Concertos-Nos-20-21/dp/B000053GZ7

It's probably as well to wait until the recording is re-reissued, which it surely must be before too long.

[Barbirollians]

A very odd BAL in which DON did not have time to play extracts from some classic versions - Lipatti , Kovacevich , Anda but had time for those he dismissed out of hand like Barenboim's turgid slow movement and a long middle of the road extract from Buchbinder .

[visualnickmos]

... embarrassing confession time - - I thought I was bein' so clever puttin' in a swift order for a Gilels, on offer cheaply -

http://amzn.eu/dZUlg0X

Only realizing later that DON had been referring to Gilels with Kondrashin / USSR SSO and not with Konwitschny / Leipzig Gewandhaus.

Sadly I think not enuff pennies in the piggy bank for the Kondrashin at the moment -

http://amzn.eu/hy3yveV

Still, I'm sure the Konwitschny will be interesting ...

Serendipity is often a wonderful thing..... Let us know....

[Barbirollians]

A very odd BAL in which DON did not have time to play extracts from some classic versions - Lipatti , Kovacevich , Anda but had time for those he dismissed out of hand like Barenboim's turgid slow movement and a long middle of the road extract from Buchbinder .

Listening to the Lipatti/Karajan today just makes me crosser about this BAL . I was reminded of Lipatti's terrific cadenzas for this work as well as playing so far beyond that of the winner in poetry and virtuosity that its omission beggars belief .

[rauschwerk]

Listening to the Lipatti/Karajan today just makes me crosser about this BAL . I was reminded of Lipatti's terrific cadenzas for this work as well as playing so far beyond that of the winner in poetry and virtuosity that its omission beggars belief .

Ah well, it seems some of us have had enough of experts...

[Petrushka]

So many of the post BaL comments above, broadly similar to those we get after most Saturday mornings, confirm my feeling that Building a Library is past its sell by date. That, and the suspicion that reviewers seem to be under pressure to ensure a HIPP 'winner' in this kind of repertoire, make me think a completely different format is needed, perhaps a mix of BaL and Interpretations on Record, taken out of Record Review and given a R3 programme of its own.

[Nick Armstrong]

Building a Library is past its sell by date.

Well I think it's rather the other way round... The programme is true to its remit, more or less. Haven't the majority of 'regulars' here just outgrown it? Exactly as ferney observed up-thread:

I don't think that we Forumistas (with our libraries of thousands of CDs) are necessarily the target audience for the discs chosen as the "one-if-you-only-have-one" for the Library; but the best reviews are those that do exactly what you say here, Alpie - bring the attention of people like (some of!) us to recordings of which we might otherwise be unaware.

And while I agree that

...a completely different format is needed, perhaps a mix of BaL and Interpretations on Record, taken out of Record Review and given a R3 programme of its own.

.... yes, an additional programme along those lines is needed by R3 Forum 'regulars' - but there's still a place for BAL, for those at a more... formative stage of their music library-building.