The list so far:
Kempff ("the" baseline?)
Rubinstein
Brendel
Steven Lubin
Melvyn Tan
Ashkenazy
Radu Lupu
Serkin
Goode
Perahia
Glenn Gould
Kissin
Pollini
and then there are also these one:
Barenboim
and an other one... (the same combination)
and plus there are the non-complete series, that we might not want to leave out:
Annie Fischer (Evi said that we do not want to miss out on this one.)
Gieseking (I do not know this, but I would be interested in his version)
Horowitz
This is a lot, probably too many. Please reveal your preferences.
Preparing to hear Barenboim play the Beethoven piano concertos
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Hello I am here too! (Having finally made the enormous investment into creating a google account. ok, so it was only ten seconds or so, but still - another password to remember...)
ReplyDeleteI don't have a favourite recording (yet!) but am really looking forward to the debate. If there is a classic or traditional recording, maybe we should start there. Tamas - is that what you mean by a baseline?
I also thought it would be fun to look up reviews of the recordings we are listening to and see if we agree with reviewers.
Liz
p.s. Happy August 20th!
ReplyDelete...although Hungarian national celebrations seem to get less and less happy. I recently asked my mother-in-law to send some national dress for the boys so that they can participate in 'International Evening' at Art's school. She refused on the grounds that these things are being worn by the rightwing crazies now.
Yes, perhaps we should look at a classic interpretation first. I am not sure if there is one, though. Evi said that the Kempff series is the closest to such a thing, in her view.
ReplyDeleteyes this Kempff one certainly doesn't sound like an off-the-wall performance: Kempff and Van Kempen in the Jesus Christus kirche...
ReplyDeletedoes anyone have it?
ReplyDelete(First, I have to apologize of my unintended misspelling Melvyn.)
ReplyDeleteLiz, I am afraid you should buy some mothballs if you have traditional Hungarian dresses - I hope not too much. Nowadays really the rightwing put his hand on it...
I don't want to say Kempff is not among the great pilgrim fathers, e.g. in Schumann, too. His empathy is really catching. However, I am afraid, at the end of his career he was too old to notice he was too old. In such a situation a good friend is the best possible thing:)