BaL 17.06.2017 - Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

[cloughie]

Just these on my shelves:Richter
Kovacevich
Katchen
Mustonen
Lewis P

Katchen the long term favourite.

Hope the move went well Alps.

[Bryn]

Just these on my shelves:Richter
Kovacevich
Katchen
Mustonen
Lewis P

Katchen the long term favourite.

Hope the move went well Alps.

Currently listening to the Mustonen. I had forgotten just how quirky it was. Katchen up next - what a well filled disc that is, with the Op. 111 Sonata and Op. 89 Polonaise as 'make-weights'. I see it is currently available, new, at bargain price from an amazon.co.uk marketplace supplier. Someone should surely strike while the iron's hot.

[vinteuil]

I see it is currently available, new, at bargain price from an amazon.co.uk marketplace supplier. Someone should surely strike while the iron's hot.

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[... make that six on order ]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Incidentally, would it be a good idea to nominate deputy for regular threads, such as this?

Well - the problem with a case like this (when the Host-in-Charge-of-Thread's Internet connection goes to pot - or "down South" as it's known hereabouts), how would the Deputy know when her/his services are required?

[Bryn]

Well - the problem with a case like this (when the Host-in-Charge-of-Thread's Internet connection goes to pot - or "down South" as it's known hereabouts), how would the Deputy know when her/his services are required?

Could not a series of beacons be lit on intervening hill-tops between Host and Dep?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

One for the Musical Confessions thread, instead of this, perhaps: I have NO copy on my shelves, not even a BBC MM one (but that's because there isn't one with them on yet). Just not my period/interest. But I shall try to listen, to find out what I've been missing, and what the appeal is to those of you who clearly find lots to admire in this work.

I have only one version: the Brendel (Vox). But I do have the sheet music, and intend to learn it one day.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Could not a series of beacons be lit on intervening hill-tops between Host and Dep?

Well, those of us in The North could always use our pigeons, of course. I hadn't thought of that.

[greenilex]

Love those beacons...just don't put them on Stormy Weather as they won't light.

[verismissimo]

Interesting that Lewis is the one dividing boarders thus far. No wonder I like it so much.

[verismissimo]

Well, those of us in The North could always use our pigeons, of course. I hadn't thought of that.

Homing ferrets, ferney?

[silvestrione]

Listened to the Philips Arrau today. Made in his 80s, it doesn't have the vigorous attack that maybe you need at times in this work, but there's lots of compensation. I remember Paul Badura-Skoda saying on the radio years ago, something like, Arrau plays with total absorption in the music that is very involving, but if you look again at what he is doing, you see how carefully thought-out it is. Time, and your heartbeat, stops eventually in the 20th variation (he's no more interested in the Andante marking than Schnabel), and then 21 is extraordinary: coming back down to earth with a bump is not the half of it. Listening today, I heard lots of echoes I hadn't noticed before, in the fughetta, var. 24, of the Goldberg Variations (e.g. of the Goldberg fughettas, but also the cadence of var.13).
Arrau not a 'Library choice', I imagine, but I would not be without it.

[Richard Tarleton]

My next live Diabelli after Chorzempa was John Lill in the early 70s, who doesn't seem to have recorded it - like Chorzempa he paired it IIRC with the Waldstein, tho with the usual slow movement.

[Bryn]

My next live Diabelli after Chorzempa was John Lill in the early 70s, who doesn't seem to have recorded it - like Chorzempa he paired it IIRC with the Waldstein, tho with the usual slow movement.

Great pity that Lill did not record it for release. I wonder if there is a recording of a performance for radio broadcast sitting in a vault somewhere.

Oh, and my count is up to at least 39 now. Quite forgot about the Anda in a Brilliant Classics box.

[BBMmk2]

Could not a series of beacons be lit on intervening hill-tops between Host and Dep?

This was a serious idea.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Homing ferrets, ferney?

No - I always walk like this.