Do hope Stephen Plaistow is ok.
Today’s repeat reminds one how outstanding he is as musician, writer, broadcaster.
Today’s repeat reminds one how outstanding he is as musician, writer, broadcaster.
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Yes, the tired old cliché "another chance to hear" on the webpage seems exceeding thin and unconvincing.Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
Originally posted by verismissimo View Post
I was listening yesterday to his survey of Schumann piano music. I must have listened to it 6 times, outstanding is the word
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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There a link for that Cali? Sounds just what I need.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I was listening yesterday to his survey of Schumann piano music. I must have listened to it 6 times, outstanding is the word
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indeed and one hopes he recovers fully and quickly, truly grateful for his pointing to Schnabel but perplexed at preferring the somewhat clinical [imho] Goode to the sublime Pires .....According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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*Private Walker voice* I might be able to come up with summink, Captain...Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I have just the one set of Mozart piano sonatas. Walter Klien, which I am more than happy with. I don't feel the need for more sets of this; "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!"Comment
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I feel the same about Mitsuko Uchida's set which I got when it came out.Originally posted by visualnickmos View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I feel the same about Mitsuko Uchida's set which I got when it came out.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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I remember, first time around, wishing SP had not juxtaposed fortepiano versions with modern pianos. The pitch difference is worrying for a start, but firm enthusiast for early instruments as I am, they just sound weak, ill-tuned and jangly when put aside the completely different animal that is the modern concert grand. I would have preferred him either not to have considered fortepiano versions at all, or to have devoted a ten-minute chunk of the review to them. The latter would at least have given us a chance to attune our ears to the very different sound and to concentrate on the interpretations rather than the instruments.Comment
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I was a student working in the wines & spirits dept. at Safeways and I used a fair bit of my Christmas money to buy the set. (£33.50 on December 29th 1989!)Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
It's a superb set. I love it.Comment
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What slightly surprised me about that BAL was that much of the way he was praising Pires more or less throughout, and indeed it was ravishing, and I thought this is going to be his choice, then, wham, at the end he proclaimed Richard Goode.
I'll have to LA to listen more carefully as to how he built that judgement.Comment
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