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Hewitt and Schiff are fantastic!
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IS there ANYTHING that Sokolov plays poorly? That is another pianist I was unaware of until reading about him on this forum. What a giant!
Sokolov played possibly the weirdest recital I've ever been to, out of decades of going to concerts. Technically astonishing, but musically [censored] and perverse to the max. I was totally surprised, since I thought (and still think) very highly of a Chopin etude recording of his. A friend attending with me (a conservatory-trained pianist) said, afterwards, "Some concerts are life-enhancing. That was exactly the opposite - you felt like life was being sucked out of you." So, yeah, he is amazing, but then there are days....
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Where was that recital and what did he play?
Funny coincidence, but I also admire Sokolov based on his YT clips. But I happen to listen to his Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue. I hated his LH and his whole concept of the piece. Next on my line up was Cortot playing the same piece with such grace and gorgeous tone that he debunked my personal Sokolov myth. Needless to say he remains an awesome pianist but not a universal one, I guess.
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Murray Perahia, hands down winner for me. Amen. Schepkin's pretty darned good, too. And John Browning has an absolutely astonishing performance of the Italian Concerto. He plays the solo parts with the sort of freedom a solo performer would have, and the tutti parts the way an orchestra would. I've never heard anyone else do that.
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I can't believe that I didn't mention this previously - especially since I've been listening to it a lot lately:
I've been quite taken by Jeffrey Biegel's Bach on a Steinway disc. In it, I find a wonderful sense of color, articulation, delineation - and drama.
All especially surprising to me, since I've heard (and maybe played) many of the pieces a gazillion times before.
There's probably another thread about it here somewhere - he's a member. I'm sort of wishing for a Vol 2.......
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Here is a steel cage battle to the death between 5 very well known pianists, side by side, playing the D major BK 1 prelude. I found this to be an interesting and entertaining listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1G5ikwyhK0&feature=related
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I don't see how one can say someone is "best"; perhaps just which version or approach you prefer, if that. It's like saying which flower is best.
At one of my lessons recently, my teacher pulled out a handful of recordings of the Bach P&F I'm working on and we listened to them together while he pointed out what he liked or what was interesting about each of them. Each was distinctly different. This was both entertaining and educational, but the point wasn't to choose the "best"; rather, to hear how different intelligences process the same music. There is no one right (or wrong!) way to play it.
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my teacher pulled out a handful of recordings of the Bach P&F I'm working on and we listened to them together while he pointed out what he liked or what was interesting about each of them. Each was distinctly different. This was both entertaining and educational, but the point wasn't to choose the "best"; rather, to hear how different intelligences process the same music. What an excellent lesson that must have been.
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I listen mainly to Schiff, Richter, Gulda and Fellner.
I wouldn't want to choose just one but if push came to shove I think Fellner is closest to my heart.I can't wait for him to record book two.
Wow, thanks. I hadn't heard from him and it's truly marvelous. Too bad this recording isn't on Itunes!
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my teacher pulled out a handful of recordings of the Bach P&F I'm working on and we listened to them together while he pointed out what he liked or what was interesting about each of them. Each was distinctly different. This was both entertaining and educational, but the point wasn't to choose the "best"; rather, to hear how different intelligences process the same music. What an excellent lesson that must have been. Yes - one of many with this teacher.
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How could a musician hate another one. You might not like the way he interprets, RIGHT?
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I don't see how one can say someone is "best"; perhaps just which version or approach you prefer, if that. It's like saying which flower is best.
At one of my lessons recently, my teacher pulled out a handful of recordings of the Bach P&F I'm working on and we listened to them together while he pointed out what he liked or what was interesting about each of them. Each was distinctly different. This was both entertaining and educational, but the point wasn't to choose the "best"; rather, to hear how different intelligences process the same music. There is no one right (or wrong!) way to play it. I like that "how different intelligences process the same music" line. It's funny how using the word "intelligences" instead of "musicians" or "pianists" gives it such a different spin - pragmatically, they are all the same.
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When I'm learning a new P&F, I'll go to iTunes and download as many different performers as I can find, but I find myself returning to Gould, Hewitt and Schiff again and again. I like Gould for his creative interpretation, Hewitt for her precision and attention to detail and Schiff for his sheer virtuosoness (sorry, I made that word up..)
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When I'm learning a new P&F, I'll go to iTunes and download as many different performers as I can find... Why?
"And if we look at the works of J.S. Bach — a benevolent god to which all musicians should offer a prayer to defend themselves against mediocrity... -Debussy
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"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
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she's pretty excellent but i really like the alacrity of Gould
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I like Tureck a lot also, but now that I see her name all in caps, I am strangely compelled to agree with you. she's pretty excellent but i really like the alacrity of Gould Hmm.....although Pogo's caps were oddly compelling, I love the word alacrity, so I am once again on the Gould bandwagon.
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she's pretty excellent but i really like the alacrity of Gould They're different. Can't really compare them. They're both very unique.
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Most definitely. Partitas in particular...
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Bach English Suite #5
Scarlatti Sonata K141 . L422
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Love Tureck and Fischer. There are not too many recordings, but if you can find them, those of Kapell and Lipatti are also extraordinary.
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