Cesar Franck piano music. Prelude, Chorale et Fugue and Prelude Aria and Final plus other pieces.
Performer : Stephen Hough, piano.
Hough is currently including prelude, chorale and fugue in recital programmes, including a recital I attended at the Barbican. Though this recording is in fact 20 years old, it stands up with his current interpretation and the rest of the disc is equally good.
Sunday, 25 September 2016
Exercises In Stasis
Piano music by Morton Feldman ( Intermission 5, Piano Piece 1952, Extensions 3 and Palais de Mari ) and George Crumb ( Processional and A Little Suite For Christmas )
Performer : Steven Osborne, piano.
How softly can you play a note ? Where silence and sound merge.
Performer : Steven Osborne, piano.
How softly can you play a note ? Where silence and sound merge.
Saturday, 24 September 2016
Virtuosity Serves the Music
Chopin piano concerto no 1 and Liszt piano concerto no 1
Performers : Martha Argerich piano, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Filling in a repertoire gap with these two after hearing Argerich at the proms.
Performers : Martha Argerich piano, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Filling in a repertoire gap with these two after hearing Argerich at the proms.
One Out Of 99's Not Bad ?
Liszt, The Early Beethoven Transcriptions.
Performer : Leslie Howard piano.
Leslie Howard achieved a monumental feat with his traversal of the entire output of Liszt for piano, amounting I think to 99 discs. This is volume 44, a three CD set comprising transcriptions of Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 7th symphonies and the funeral march from symphony no 3. There are other snippets such as Adelaide transcriptions and Berlioz's march to the scaffold.
Performer : Leslie Howard piano.
Leslie Howard achieved a monumental feat with his traversal of the entire output of Liszt for piano, amounting I think to 99 discs. This is volume 44, a three CD set comprising transcriptions of Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 7th symphonies and the funeral march from symphony no 3. There are other snippets such as Adelaide transcriptions and Berlioz's march to the scaffold.
Friday, 29 July 2016
Blisztering !
Liszt : Etudes D'execution Transendante.
Performer : Dinara Klinton.
I saw Dinara playing last summer at a piano school week and it is a pleasure to see this new release garnering such favourable reviews.
Performer : Dinara Klinton.
I saw Dinara playing last summer at a piano school week and it is a pleasure to see this new release garnering such favourable reviews.
Advocating Dvorak
Dvorak piano concerto, Schumann piano concerto.
Performers: Stephen Hough piano, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Both composers linked to Brahms, both composers only piano concerto. One secure in the repertoire, the other less familiar. But with Hough's advocacy on this disc and in concert, the attractions of the Dvorak are becoming ever clearer.
Performers: Stephen Hough piano, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Both composers linked to Brahms, both composers only piano concerto. One secure in the repertoire, the other less familiar. But with Hough's advocacy on this disc and in concert, the attractions of the Dvorak are becoming ever clearer.
Brighton ( or Hove's ) Finest
Martin Butler : Dirty Beasts and other chamber works.
Performers : Simon Callow narrator, New London Chamber Ensemble, Navarra String Quartet, Leon Bosch double bass, Martin Butler piano.
Setting of three macabre children's poems by Roald Dahl, pieces for wind ensemble and string quartet and combinations thereof plus solo piano works.
Performers : Simon Callow narrator, New London Chamber Ensemble, Navarra String Quartet, Leon Bosch double bass, Martin Butler piano.
Setting of three macabre children's poems by Roald Dahl, pieces for wind ensemble and string quartet and combinations thereof plus solo piano works.
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