Whose solo piano music floats your boat?

[teamsaint]

Phew. Result ?A score draw ?

OT I suppose,more for your Bernstein thread, , but what is your "go to " CPs , Pulcers ?

[ahinton]

Anyway, to return more specifically to the topic(!) - Sorabji (well, I would say that, wouldn't I!?), Chopin, Liszt, Alkan, Brahms, Debussy, Busoni, Godowsky, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Medtner, Feinberg...there's a few hundred hours' worth to be going on with...

[Pulcinella]

Phew. Result ?A score draw ?

OT I suppose,more for your Bernstein thread, , but what is your "go to " CPs , Pulcers ?

Tricky, and perhaps, as you say, for the Bernstein thread (or a Summer BaL?).
Full version or reduced orchestration version to consider, too.
And the soloist.
I 'go to' Bernstein on Sony more often than not, but mainly I suppose because of an incarnation I have of it, coupled with Poulenc's Gloria and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.

[Beef Oven!]

1898

Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata #2
Maria Lettberg. Capriccio complete set CDs

One of my favorites. I shall be adding some of his piano sonatas to my DAP to listen to on the go. I will put 2, 7 & 9. Anyone think that I'm missing a special one?

I'll be taking them from the Lettberg set, I can't find my Ogdon CDs!

[Pianorak]

You are missing 1, 3, 4 and 5 - all very special. Glad to see someone else has the Lettberg Scriabin set.

[Richard Barrett]

The absolutely essential ones for me are 7 and 10. I don't know the first five so well.

[Beef Oven!]

You are missing 1, 3, 4 and 5 - all very special. Glad to see someone else has the Lettberg Scriabin set.

Yes, I ummed and ahed for ages and finally bought the Lettberg set in 2014/15 (?)

At this rate I'll end up putting them all on!

You couldn't pick one for me, from that lot?

[Barbirollians]

Beethoven
Schubert
Chopin
Debussy
Rachmaninov
Mozart
Schumann
Brahms
Bach ( as the piano is a keyboard)
Shostakovich

[Beef Oven!]

The absolutely essential ones for me are 7 and 10. I don't know the first five so well.

Yes, 10 was one I nearly put on in the first place.

I wanted to keep it down to 5, but Pianorak has thrown a spanner in the works!

[ahinton]

The absolutely essential ones for me are 7 and 10. I don't know the first five so well.

The absolutely essential ones for me are all of those numbered from 1 to 10.

I heard Jonathan Powell give all 10 in chronological order in a recital in London a few years ago; it seemed to me to make a new work in its own right, a kind of autobiographical sonata. I'd love to think that he'll record them some day. Peter Donohoe's also been giving programmes of all 10 recently but not in order of composition.

[Beef Oven!]

The absolutely essential ones for me are all of those numbered from 1 to 10.

I heard Jonathan Powell give all 10 in chronological order in a recital in London a few years ago; it seemed to me to make a new work in its own right, a kind of autobiographical sonata. I'd love to think that he'll record them some day. Peter Donohoe's also been giving programmes of all 10 recently but not in order of composition.

With limited space on a DAP, and with so much quality music to choose from, the opportunity cost of putting all ten on is too high.

So come on, play the game - which one?


P.S. That Powell gig must've been something special!

[Pianorak]

You couldn't pick one for me, from that lot?

Er - today and at gunpoint I'd say No. 4 (but it'd have to be Shura Cherkassky).

[Serial_Apologist]

With limited space on a DAP, and with so much quality music to choose from, the opportunity cost of putting all ten on is too high.

So come on, play the game - which one?


P.S. That Powell gig must've been something special!

Very personal, but mine would be No 5, given that almost all of Scriabin's advancements to his harmonic language are contained and in place, but not yet overdominating to the extent of limiting the options, (a problem I also experience sometimes with Messiaen), as seems (to me) to happen after the Fifth, along with the Poem of Extasy, both composed around 1907.

[Beef Oven!]

Thus far - 2, 7, 9, 10 and a toss-up between 4 & 5, it seems (ahinton abstaining).

[Richard Barrett]

come on, play the game - which one?

Now it's which one!!! For me that would be no.10. It has the most original textures and form, owes least to previous concepts of material and pianism, and has the most startlingly ecstatic mode of expression.