Jean-Rodolphe Kars anyone?

[dk]

Thoughts, impressions, recommendations?

TIA

dk

[JohnGavin]

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dk

2 things immediately come to my memory:

1. Messiaen
2. He gave up the piano to enter into priesthood. (He had my full admiration for that).

[Frank Lekens]

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dk

1. Messiaen
2. He gave up the piano to enter into priesthood. (He had my full admiration for that).

Debussy.

[Lawrence Chalmers]

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TIA
dk

1. Messiaen
2. He gave up the piano to enter into priesthood. (He had my full admiration for that).

Debussy.
--
Frank Lekens
http://fmlekens.home.xs4all.nl/
https://franklekens.blogspot.nl/

I second the Debussy recordings of Books 1 and 2 of the preludes.

[Henk vT]

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1. Messiaen
2. He gave up the piano to enter into priesthood. (He had my full admiration for that).

Thanks for mentioning his Messiaen. I didn't know Kras recorded it.

Henk

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1. Messiaen
2. He gave up the piano to enter into priesthood. (He had my full admiration for that).

Thanks for mentioning his Messiaen. I didn't know Kras recorded it.
Henk

There is/was an Eloquence 2cd available (listed as not available currently) on Amazon, by Kars of Messiaen selections from Vingt Regards (recorded from live concert in Amsterdam 1976), and the Debussy preludes. I was seriously thinking about it several months ago. Kars is still a priest afaik.
Kars also recorded Debussy/Delius (Fantaisie/Concerto) on Decca with Sir Alexander Gibson.

Ray Hall, Taree

[MickeyBoy]

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dk

I heard him play in 1971 at Warwick University. Memory is vague, but I believe Messiaen was on the program. Memory not vague: I thoroughly enjoyed his playing.

[Dennis Davis]

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I heard him play in 1971 at Warwick University. Memory is vague, but I believe Messiaen was on the program. Memory not vague: I thoroughly enjoyed his playing.

I heard him only the once in concert, at the Proms playing Messiaen's Sept Haikai with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez and again, much later when he had become Pere Jean-Rodolphe, he participated in a Messiaen conference and played for us a movement from Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jesus. Magical!