Proms Chamber Music 2: Nielsen/Mozart (27.07.15)

[edashtav]

Nail struck firmly on head.

That's Jimmy Nail, is it, Bryn, southern country cousin of Jimmy MacMillan?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

even with period instruments accompanying the fortepiano, in this work (K452) it's fatally easy for the wind to overbalance the rather fragile voice of the fortepiano, even when its player is audibly, strenuously attempting to be heard (in this particularly notorious example where the fortepiano player repeatedly 'decorates' and embellishes the piano part so as to draw attention to it but, sadly, all to no avail):
http://www.aam.co.uk/#/recordings/di...-quintets.aspx

I, too, have a problem hearing what the problem is you're describing here, Tony - playing the Finale of the work on the link you provide, I hear the fortepiano quite clearly?

(Lovely performance, by the way - superb playing by all involved.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hadn't heard the Nielsen before, but as edashtav says it's well worth getting to know.

It is - there was a very fine performance from the Galliard Ensemble on a BBCMusMag cover CD from 2004.

[Bryn]

I, too, have a problem hearing what the problem is you're describing here, Tony - playing the Finale of the work on the link you provide, I hear the fortepiano quite clearly?

(Lovely performance, by the way - superb playing by all involved.)

Led me to accessing it on QOBUZ. I see there is a used copy available for around a five (including p&p) via the amazon.co.uk marketplace. Balance sounds fair enough to me, though how much that is down to the recording engineer(s) is open to question.