BaL 9.02.19 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 in E flat "Emperor"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bravo, sir!

Oh, absolutely - astonishing job, Alpie

[jayne lee wilson]

This seems an almost wilfully perverse choice for a BaL. How do they come up with them? So many more interesting options....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Oh, absolutely - astonishing job, Alpie

I think there have been longer lists. Beethoven’s 3rd & 5th symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s 1st piano concerto, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons all spring to mind.

[richardfinegold]

It's an impossible, even foolhardy, task to pick just one from this lot. NK needs to choose a few, maybe half a dozen, that can realistically be serious contenders in their various ways and proceed to choose one in each category eg HIPP, historical, modern digital, LP era or whatever, otherwise it will be meaningless.

When it was done as a BaL in about 1979 I can recall that Curzon/VPO/Knappertsbusch 'won'. Wonder how it would fare today?

I've got many, many recordings on my shelves but my 'go to' for a long time was Perahia/Concertgebouw/Haitink.

I really enjoy that Perahia/Haitink series. It seems fashionable for critics to bash it.
Fleisher/Szell has been my mainstay for 40 years but I have always liked Brendel, first with Mehta and then with Levine

[verismissimo]

HIPP recordings seem fewer than I'd imagined:

Brautigam/Parrott
Glemser/Weil (?)
Immerseel/Lamon
Immerseel/Weil
Levin/Gardiner
Schoenderwoerd
Tan/Norrington
Others?

Recommendations please!

[vinteuil]

HIPP recordings seem fewer than I'd imagined:

Brautigam/Parrott
Glemser/Weil (?)
Immerseel/Lamon
Immerseel/Weil
Levin/Gardiner
Schoenderwoerd
Tan/Norrington
Others?

Recommendations please!

... there is also Steven Lubin with the AAM/Hogwood

My current choice wd be Schoonderwoerd/Cristofori.

Unreconstructed fans of well-upholstered big-band Beethoven will not like it at all...



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[Bryn]

HIPP recordings seem fewer than I'd imagined:

Brautigam/Parrott
Glemser/Weil (?)
Immerseel/Lamon
Immerseel/Weil
Levin/Gardiner
Schoenderwoerd
Tan/Norrington
Others?

Recommendations please!

Brautigam used a Steinway, not an historic instrument for his Beethoven concerto recordings.

[BBMmk2]

Just a reminder. Before posting omissions (of which I's sure there are quite a few), please check the first TWO posts. Being a long list, it exceeded the maximum number of characters for a single post.

Many thanks for your sterling work on this forum EA! Very much appreciated.

I have Ashkenazy/CSO/Solti, Pierre Laurent Aimard/CoE/Harnoncourt Mitsuko Uchida’s too.

[vinteuil]

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... I think Immerseel/Lamon and Immerseel/Weil are the same thing. (?) My various copies of this have it as Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), Tafelmusik (on period instruments), Jeanne Lamon (music director), Bruno Weil (conductor)

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... I think Immerseel/Lamon and Immerseel/Weil are the same thing. (?) My various copies of this have it as Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), Tafelmusik (on period instruments), Jeanne Lamon (music director), Bruno Weil (conductor)

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And your judgement, vinty?

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Unreconstructed fans of well-upholstered big-band Beethoven will not like it at all...



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As others, I have lots of big-band performances, so many of them excellent, it seems to me.

That will make Sir Kenyon's job doubly difficult.

[verismissimo]

Surprise: only two Karajan recordings - Gieseking and Weissenberg.

[cloughie]

Surprise: only two Karajan recordings - Gieseking and Weissenberg.

...and neither are DG. I suppose that Kempff Leitner, then Pollini Bohm and Eschenbach then Pollini Abbado covered that label over the years.

[Bryn]

Two extreme contrasts are among my favourites, Schoonderwoerd (very HIPP), and Gould/Stockie (outrageously unBeethovian, let alone unHIPP!).

[vinteuil]

And your judgement, vinty?

... as in my #21 above :

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My current choice wd be Schoonderwoerd/Cristofori.

Unreconstructed fans of well-upholstered big-band Beethoven will not like it at all...



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