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Originally posted by FRJames View PostBritten - War Requiem (Decca) - SACD & Vinyl issues.
Hybrid SACD Edition presenting 24-bit audio. Lavishly illustrated and documented soft cover book, housed in a deluxe rigid slipcase, presenting: An introduction and technical note on the new transfers and HD remastering by Decca Classics Label Director & Reissue Producer Dominic Fyfe, including reminiscences fr
Presumably these are 60th anniversary issues even though they aren't labelled as such (vinyl is at bottom of page)"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Mandryka View Post
In the booklet he says "In the Goldberg Variations, the one thing that rivals Bach’s complete intellectual mastery of his craft is his inspired, creative playfulness." And he does seem to put the emphasis on playfulness.
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
But was it as properly soporific as its origins would suggest it should be?
And in his interview in the Guardian article he debunks the theory and says:
This story contains a truth of the mythological kind, if not the historical. For what music could possibly be better suited to warding off the solitary despair of insomnia (or, by extension, that of human existence itself) than the Goldberg Variations, with their constant interplay of reassuring regularity and exhilarating novelty? Far from lulling anyone to sleep, this is a work very much capable of bringing the suffering insomniac to accept his wakefulness – even cherish it.
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Originally posted by Mandryka View PostSteven Osborne Debussy Etudes.
I heard him play them in a concert and it was terrible - so I’ll be interested to hear this if it’s streaming anywhere.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...-pour-le-piano
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostI have also heard him play these in concerts. I didn't think he was terrible at all - perhaps a case of chacun à son goût, though he may play better or worse from day to day. He didn't have the forcefulness of say Uchida or Livia Rev in some of the pieces - but does that really matter?
Anyway, it's neither here nor there really, the recording will be released very soon, and that's that.
The Debussy etudes are very different from other Debussy material I think. And for me, the pianists who make them work, make them "come off the page", are few and far between. Anthony De Bonaventura, Anatoly Vedernikov, Nina Tichman, Michel Ferber, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's first recording, the Japanese one, sometimes Michel Beroff on Denon and Michael Korstick -- I blow a bit hot and cold about those twoLast edited by Mandryka; 06-10-23, 16:25.
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Originally posted by FRJames View Post
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Originally posted by RichardB View PostIt certainly does. I shall be downloading that for listening on a long flight tomorrow.
Replacement final movement. No Grosse Fuge
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