BaL 12.1.19 - Prokofiev: Violin concerto 1 in D

[visualnickmos]

Can we do that one again with Marina Frolova-Walker ?

Excellent idea!

[DracoM]

Oh, absolutely - I have no doubt that she'd get the correct location of the Nielsen's sunrise! - it's totally a case of my personal dislike of the stream of adjectives and similes that is her personal style (and which I've mentioned on a couple of H&N).

Manner not matter was the basis of my bristling.
And I just felt she signalled the Frang choice pretty early on - like almost from the off.

[edashtav]

Can we do that one again with Marina Frolova-Walker ?

Why not?
Perhaps a Duel can be arranged?

I'm in the Underthecountertenor lobby, admiring KM' s wonderful ability to translate her feelings and observations into lively prose enriched with imaginative similes. She has self-confidence and is unprejudiced by "received wisdom".

Tom Service later told us that Classical CD sales grew last year. I sustain that trend ... by ordering the Frang.

[Bryn]

Why not?
Perhaps a Duel can be arranged?

I'm in the Underthecountertenor lobby, admiring KM' s wonderful ability to translate her feelings and observations into lively prose enriched with imaginative similes. She has self-confidence and is unprejudiced by "received wisdom".

Tom Service later told us that Classical CD sales grew last year. . . .

Then we heard the downside in the news that followed the programme, 1 in 10 'classical' streamings were of Einaudi.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Manner not matter was the basis of my bristling.

And I just felt she signalled the Frang choice pretty early on - like almost from the off.

I agree - but didn't mind that.

[visualnickmos]

Frang; didn't quite hit the mark for me. Something about the 'orchestral' that sounded a little 'unProkofian'. Too delicate perhaps, soft-focus.....

[BBMmk2]

Ferney, yes!

How come the Frank Peter Zimmermann not in bold type? The reviewer liked that one for the modern versions?

[Alison]

Ah - I'm more of DracoM's opinion - that the "imaginative and telling choice of descriptive words and phrases" is (to paraphrase her own description of the Chung recording) more concerned with Molleson than with Prokofiev.

Heigh-ho; chacun a son wotsit, and all that ...

Ah thanks Ferney, just reading that post has got something out of my system.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

How come the Frank Peter Zimmermann not in bold type? The reviewer liked that one for the modern versions?

I think that that was her "runner-up", Bbm - the Frang was the one that got the laurels.

[Pulcinella]

I think that that was her "runner-up", Bbm - the Frang was the one that got the laurels.

I thought in her summing up that we were going to have joint winners, but she did indeed ultimately plump for Frang.

[edashtav]

Then we heard the downside in the news that followed the programme, 1 in 10 'classical' streamings were of Einaudi.

LUDOVICO EINAUDI

Pronounced Ey-no-dee. Origin: Possibly, a contraction of I [have] no ideas.

His forename, Ludovico, reminds one of the unintended consequences of the Ludovico Technique in Clockwork Orange :

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Einaudi.

With his royalties, shouldn't it now be "Zweiporschen"?

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah - I'm more of DracoM's opinion - that the "imaginative and telling choice of descriptive words and phrases" is (to paraphrase her own description of the Chung recording) more concerned with Molleson than with Prokofiev.

Heigh-ho; chacun a son wotsit, and all that ...

Absolutely, and my wotsit gets completely turned off by KM, I just can’t listen to her, I’m afraid. Gave it a try but lasted only a few minutes

[BBMmk2]

I thought in her summing up that we were going to have joint winners, but she did indeed ultimately plump for Frang.

What artists though. Frang and Sondergard!

[jayne lee wilson]

Any comment on the recent Petrova/Odense/Poska? I loved that one, though I haven't listened to many others recently, and the c/w Nielsen was an influence of course........