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Liszt Sonata ? Dont you mean unified and unnecessarily exaggerated version of Chopin's musical passages ?
Oh please. The Liszt is beyond Chopin in many ways.
comparison of a showman and poet thats ridiculous.
What does whether one is a showman and one a poet have to do with the music? The Liszt sonata is nothing BUT poetry.
"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
"It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right."
My all-time favorite, however, has to be Garrick Ohlsson's performance, recently released on Bridge Records. massively underrated and VERY good, paired with the Liszt/Busoni "Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam" fantasy and fugue.
He's playing it on his all-Liszt recital tour in 2011-12!
can't believe i forgot about this gem (unfortuantely not on any commercial releases) in my last post. Definitely one of my absolute favorites, by one of my favorite pianists:
can't believe i forgot about this gem (unfortuantely not on any commercial releases) in my last post. Definitely one of my absolute favorites, by one of my favorite pianists:
Thanks for the link! Absolutely love many of his rhetorical ideas.
"I'm a concert pianist--that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment."--Oscar Levant
The only recording I have of the Liszt Sonata is that made by Pogorelich, and I may have listened to it - once. The Sonata has never appealed to me, so sitting down and comparing various recordings would seem somewhat of a long, tedious task, enhanced, no doubt, by my indifference to the work.
The only recording I have of the Liszt Sonata is that made by Pogorelich, and I may have listened to it - once. The Sonata has never appealed to me, so sitting down and comparing various recordings would seem somewhat of a long, tedious task, enhanced, no doubt, by my indifference to the work.
Regards,
That would be difficult to do, yes. It would be difficult even for me to do, as someone who really likes the piece, but is not familiar with many various recordings of it.
The only recording I have of the Liszt Sonata is that made by Pogorelich, and I may have listened to it - once. The Sonata has never appealed to me, so sitting down and comparing various recordings would seem somewhat of a long, tedious task, enhanced, no doubt, by my indifference to the work.
Regards,
That would be difficult to do, yes. It would be difficult even for me to do, as someone who really likes the piece, but is not familiar with many various recordings of it.
Which is why I always laugh a little when the reviewer at International Piano Magazine says something like "I listened to the 47 versions of Schumann's Fantasy presently available." And then he goes on to compare and contrast them all(most issues contain a comparitive review of all major performances of some major piano work)
I don't know who I like....... a mix of many, I guess. But definitely not Argerich - wayyyyyy too fast to be comprehensive..
Angelina, I know you are not a big fan of Argerich, but I always thought you liked that recording?
True, Argerich is very fast, she takes on Liszt with a breathless abandon, it is hard not to admire her technical address. My piano teacher -in one of his more unbuttoned moments- told me that Argerich had sex with Liszt in that recording.
That would be difficult to do, yes. It would be difficult even for me to do, as someone who really likes the piece, but is not familiar with many various recordings of it.
Nice to see you back. Hope you had a great Easter! I attended services at St. Mark's Cathedral this morning, the music was glorious, inspiring and impeccably performed.
Jason, your teacher has quite a way with words! Who are you studying with? I love Argerich's performance of the Sonata-- all the sweep and passion, intensity and grandeur are there.
Jason, your teacher has quite a way with words! Who are you studying with? I love Argerich's performance of the Sonata-- all the sweep and passion, intensity and grandeur are there.
IMO, you are certainly correct. Nothing matches Argerich's white heat, and look at what she accomplished with the Schumann Fantasy! You need to have been in love to understand this...
My teacher once took me out to dinner at a rather posh London restaurant. After the second wine or so, he started to talk about Rudolf Serkin. I could just see that look in his eyes... he admired Serkin so much, there was the Brahms Bb, the Schumann Abegg, the Schubert D960, the Beethoven Op. 31#3, some Reger. It went on and on.
I have only heard Rudolf Serkin in recordings, my teacher said those never did him justice.
The only recording I have of the Liszt Sonata is that made by Pogorelich, and I may have listened to it - once. The Sonata has never appealed to me, so sitting down and comparing various recordings would seem somewhat of a long, tedious task, enhanced, no doubt, by my indifference to the work.
Regards,
You don't know if you've listened to it or not but you are sure that it has no appeal to you.
The only recording I have of the Liszt Sonata is that made by Pogorelich, and I may have listened to it - once. The Sonata has never appealed to me, so sitting down and comparing various recordings would seem somewhat of a long, tedious task, enhanced, no doubt, by my indifference to the work.
Regards,
That would be difficult to do, yes. It would be difficult even for me to do, as someone who really likes the piece, but is not familiar with many various recordings of it.
Welcome back, I guess your penance is complete and a Happy Easter to you! And if you decide to go ahead with the Venezia e Napoli, please do post it in the Liszt e-cital.
As for the Sonata, my favorite recording is Rubinsteins, though I don't like any one recording in it's entirety. Elements of Horowitz's (the early one), Pletnev, and Bolet's appeal to me greatly along with Polina Leschenko and Cyprien Katsaris. I nearly purchased Olssohns to see what the famed Chopin interpreter can do with real music.
The only recording I have of the Liszt Sonata is that made by Pogorelich, and I may have listened to it - once. The Sonata has never appealed to me, so sitting down and comparing various recordings would seem somewhat of a long, tedious task, enhanced, no doubt, by my indifference to the work.
Regards,
You don't know if you've listened to it or not but you are sure that it has no appeal to you.
No, I have tried several times to listen to the Liszt Sonata without much success; that's one reason I haven't made any repeated attempts to become familiar with the recording I have.
Who are you studying with? 