BaL 24.11.12 & 19.10.13 Mozart's Piano Sonata no. 8 in A minor (K.310)

[Karafan]

I echo the many sentiments in favour of the inestimable Mr Plaistow! A splendid and learned tutor with a deftness of touch and smiling delivery - one of my all time favourites.

BTW, I assume that the examples played of Pires arose from her DG set rather than the earlier Denon traversal of the sonatas.....?

K.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

BaL 19.10.13 - Mozart Piano Sonata no. 8 in A minor, K.310

9.30 a.m.
Stephen Plaistow surveys recordings of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A minor and makes a personal recommendation.

Available versions:-

Claudio Arrau (DVD)
Paul Badura-Skoda
Daniel Barenboim (CD)
Daniel Barenboim (DVD)
Roland Batik
Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano)
Christian Blackshaw
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Alfred Brendel (3 versions)
Shura Cherkassky
Marta Deyanova
Imogen Cooper
Konstanze Eickhorst
Michael Endres
Karl Engel
Christoph Eschenbach
Caroline Fischer
Reine Gianoli
Walter Gieseking
Emil Gilels (CD)
Emil Gilels DVD
Richard Goode
Glenn Gould
Helene Grimaud
Friedrich Gulda (2 versions)
Ingrid Haebler
Stanley Hoogland
Jeno Jando
Sung-Suk Kang
Aleck Karis
Peter Katin
Wilhelm Kempff
Walter Klein
Evgeni Koroliov
Lili Krauss
Dinu Lipatti (3 versions: January, July & September 1950)
Alexei Lubimov (fortepiano)
Leon McCawley
Warren Mailley-Smith
Milos Mihajlovic
Yoshiko Okado
Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
Murray Perahia
Vlado Perlemuter
Daniel-Ben Piennar
Maria Joao Pires
Jean-Baernard Pommier
Siegbert Rampe (fortepiano)
Rosita Renard
Sviatoslav Richter (CD)
Sviatoslav Richter (DVD)
Nadia Reisenberg
Andras Schiff
Artur Schnabel
Oliver Schnyder
Artur Schoonderwoerd (tangent-action piano, fortepiano & unfretted clavichord)
Carl Seemann
Vladimir Selovokhin
Ludwig Semerjian (fortepiano)
Colin Tilney (fortepiano)
Mitsuko Uchida
Christoph Ullrich
Klara Wurtz
Hong Xu
Christian Zacharius
Gerrit Zitterbart

[verismissimo]

What an enormous list! So many more than I would have guessed.

I looked in the Gramophone Classical Catalogue for December 1983 and there were just five versions available: Lipatti, Ashkenazy (nla), de Larrocha (nla), Ranki (nla) and a fortepiano recording by Mary Sadovnikoff (nla, who she?).

[Barbirollians]

Lipatti - studio recording . Incomparable .

[verismissimo]

... and a fortepiano recording by Mary Sadovnikoff (nla, who she?).

American, pupil of Nadia Boulanger, mid 80s, lives in Rhode Island.

[verismissimo]

Lipatti - studio recording . Incomparable .

Heard all 70 then, Barbie?

Tough job for the very excellent Stephen Plaistow.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

An important work for me, having played it for Grade 8 in 1967. Elements of poor technique still persist when I play it, so deeply engrained are the short-cuts I took at the time.

I shall be listening with great interest, having only one recording (Uchida).

[Sir Velo]

Point of order: Bart van Oort's version would have been played on a fortepiano.

[Richard Tarleton]

Tough job for the very excellent Stephen Plaistow.

It'll be interesting to see how long he's been given to do it, after the Verdi fiasco last week

[Nick Armstrong]

Lipatti. Incomparable.

And Stephen Plaistow. Incomparable.

Don't know the Lipatti - like Alpie I only have the Uchida version.

Glad this is one of the sonatas on the new Blackshaw set from the Wigmore, so winningly reviewed by Mahan Esfahani the other week. I hope Mr Plaistow has the inclination - and the time - to give his views on it...

[MickyD]

What an enormous list! So many more than I would have guessed.

I looked in the Gramophone Classical Catalogue for December 1983 and there were just five versions available: Lipatti, Ashkenazy (nla), de Larrocha (nla), Ranki (nla) and a fortepiano recording by Mary Sadovnikoff (nla, who she?).

As an enthusiast of the fortepiano, I confess to never having heard of the latter lady. There was also an interesting complete set of the Mozart sonatas on Accent played on the fortepiano by Temenushka Vesselinova, who also seems to have disappeared from the catalogues.

[Barbirollians]

It is a repeat ! I thought it was familiar .

[Nick Armstrong]

It is a repeat ! I thought it was familiar .

Yes

I spoke too soon...

Glad this is one of the sonatas on the new Blackshaw set from the Wigmore, so winningly reviewed by Mahan Esfahani the other week. I hope Mr Plaistow has the inclination - and the time - to give his views on it...

[Sir Velo]

It is a repeat ! I thought it was familiar .

This happened relatively recently didn't it? I seem to remember that a BAL reviewer was ill and the scheduled programme had to be replaced with a repeat. Wonder what the excuse is this time? Surely an ideal opportunity to give us a conspectus (or should that be traversal? ) of one of those composers who never feature on BAL (e.g. Medtner; Xenakis; Varese etc).

[Nick Armstrong]

Wonder what the excuse is this time?

The reason is - acc. to AMcG - that Stephen Plaistow has been under the weather and couldn't deliver his Kreisleriana BAL originally scheduled for today - shame, hope it's added later to the schedule.

Get better soon, Mr P

(Anyone know what date the Mozart one was first broadcast?)