Recordings of live performances of note - XXVI

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Jeremy Denk, a pianist I follow, in the UK. I wonder if the last mov. of Saint-Saens' G minor PC was inspired by the last mov, of the Mendelssohn ? Liszt apparently sight read the Concerto when he first saw the manuscript, to Mendelssohn’s astonishment,Mendelssohn himself no minor pianist.

From BBC Radio 3 : “ Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a programme that traces a line from Haydn to Schubert. Joining the orchestra, tonight's soloist, the American pianist Jeremy Denk, performs Mendelssohn's dazzling first piano concerto, written when he was just 21. It's a work that reflects Mendelssohn's own considerable pianistic abilities (he gave the premiere in 1831), with ample room for the soloist to shine in its breathtaking runs.
Two major symphonists bookend the concert. To open, part of a London series of commissions, when the composer was in his sixties, Haydn's Symphony No 102 is a shining example of his mastery of the form. And what better way to conclude than with Schubert's joyous Fifth Symphony, redolent with youthful optimism."

Live from the Lighthouse in Poole,Feb.19,2020:

Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat major, H.1.102
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25

Encore: Repeat of the Concerto’s final mov.

Interval music from CD
Niels Gade: String Quartet in F minor
Kontra Quartet

Schubert: Symphony no 5

Jeremy Denk, piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fgyg

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Post by Bozo
Jeremy Denk, a pianist I follow, in the UK. I wonder if the last mov. of Saint-Saens' G minor PC was inspired by the last mov, of the Mendelssohn ? Liszt apparently sight read the Concerto when he first saw the manuscript, to Mendelssohn’s astonishment,Mendelssohn himself no minor pianist.
From BBC Radio 3 : “ Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a programme that traces a line from Haydn to Schubert. Joining the orchestra, tonight's soloist, the American pianist Jeremy Denk, performs Mendelssohn's dazzling first piano concerto, written when he was just 21. It's a work that reflects Mendelssohn's own considerable pianistic abilities (he gave the premiere in 1831), with ample room for the soloist to shine in its breathtaking runs.
Two major symphonists bookend the concert. To open, part of a London series of commissions, when the composer was in his sixties, Haydn's Symphony No 102 is a shining example of his mastery of the form. And what better way to conclude than with Schubert's joyous Fifth Symphony, redolent with youthful optimism."
Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat major, H.1.102
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25
Encore: Repeat of the Concerto’s final mov.
Interval music from CD
Niels Gade: String Quartet in F minor
Kontra Quartet
Schubert: Symphony no 5
Jeremy Denk, piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fgyg

Regarding live music, I saw Janine Jansen and the NYPO do the Brahms Violin Concerto last evening. It was superb. Afterwards, I spoke with Janine in the Dutch language. She is charming, and a fine musician. All in all, a superb evening.

Mort Linder

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The Philharmonia’s new principal conductor, may be his first appearance here with the orchestra in that principal role,although I'm sure he’s conducted them before. I heard only the Prokofieff ( at about 1:10:00 in ), one of my fav symphonies.My recordings Leinsdorf/Boston Sym. , RCA “Prokofieff Series” lp, and a live 1963 broadcast Ormandy/PO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fhg3

Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 9th February.

Borodin Overture, Prince Igor
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Behzod Abduraimov, piano
Philharmonia
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor

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FYI.The Barber Cello Concerto does not seem played often live (?) , but excellent.

ARTISTS

John Storgårds, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello

PROGRAM

OUTI TARKIAINEN Midnight Sun Variations
BARBER Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op.22
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, "Pastorale"

WATCH ON DSO.ORG/LIVE OR ON FACEBOOK LIVE 3 PM EST ( GMT - 5 )

Will not be archived unless you subscribe later.

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To be clear, Sunday’s live DSO is FREE. If you miss it, can’t get into their archive later to view it unless you contribute $.

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Post by Bozo
FYI.The Barber Cello Concerto does not seem played often live (?) , but excellent.

Reminder.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto No. 23 en La Majeur pour piano et orchestre, K. 488
Frédéric Chopin - Prelude No. 15 en Ré Majeur, op. 28/15 (bis)
Eric Lu, piano

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Concerto en Fa Majeur pour piano et orchestre, op. posth.
Howard Shelley, piano et direction

Frédéric Chopin - Concerto No. 1 en mi mineur pour piano et orchestre, op. 11
- Nocturne No. 20 en do dièse mineur, op. posth (bis)
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano

Eric Lu, piano
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley, piano et direction

All very well done, especially Richard-Hamelin. I do have an lp of the Hummel A minor PC (Op.85 or 87) , but this broadcast was my first hearing of the F major Hummel ( amazing slow mov.) .This concerto served as an interesting “bridge” between the Mozart and Chopin. All 3 concertos, composers, “simpatico” , or “kindred spirits”. I suspect the Hummel rarely heard live.

Enregistré le 23/08/2019 au Concert Hall, Philharmonic, Warsaw

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2605562

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Pianist Igor Levit, live, at Salzburg Festival , not sure when, but probably recently.Posted as I suspect neither work heard live often,especially the Busoni (?).Levit manages to add some lyricism, drama, colorations to the Busoni not present to the same degree in my “dryer” Naxos recording by Wolf Harden.Levit's Busoni well worth hearing, not to be missed,IMHO,quite remarkable.

Liszt, “Weinen,Klagen,Sorgen,Zagen” ,S.179
Busoni, “Fantasia contrappuntista”

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2606031

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Another pianist I follow, Llyr Williams, at Edinburgh Festival ( 2019 I believe ), impressive :

Edvard Grieg - Selection de Pièces lyriques :

Bellringing (''Klokkeklang'), op. 54/6
To Spring ('Til våren'), op. 43/6
March of the Trolls ('Trolltog'), op. 54/3
Puck (Little Troll) ('Småtroll'), op. 71/3
Vanished Days ('Svundne dager'), op. 57/1
The Brook ('Bekken'), op. 62/4
Evening in the Mountains ('Aften på højfjellet'), op. 68/4
Cradle Song ('Bådnlåt'), op. 68/5
Homewards ('Hjemad'), op. 62/6

Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt - Fantaisie sur des thèmes de 'Rienzi'
- Le choeur des fileuses, extrait du Vaisseau fantôme

Richard Wagner - Sonata for the Book of Mrs. M.W., WWV 85
Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau M.W.

Richard Wagner /Franz Liszt - Entry of the Guests, from 'Tannhäuser'
- Liebestod, from 'Tristan und Isolde'

Maurice Ravel - La vallée des cloches, extrait de 'Miroirs' (bis)

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2606667

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Two great concertos heard today :

Shostakovich Cello Concerto #1 :

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2607479 (Altstaedt,Eschenbach,Elbe Phil.,Rheingau Festival,July, 2019,Gersenheim )

Prokofieff Violin Concerto # 1 :

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9305-karina-canellakis-en-simone-lamsma ( Lamsma,Canellakis, Radio Phil.,TivoliVredenburg,Utrecht,Feb.2020 )

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Interesting programme by pianist Cedric Tiberghein,whose career I follow, last week at Wigmore Hall,London. All first hearings for me, except WoO 77,78,79. The Crumb and Cage “Landscape “ really nice.

Beethoven: 5 Variations on 'Rule Britannia' in D, WoO 79
Feldman: Last Pieces
Beethoven: 6 Variations on an Original Theme in G, WoO 77
Cage: 7 Haiku
Beethoven: 9 Variations on a March by Dressler in C minor, WoO 63 (Beethoven at age 12 )

INTERVAL: A recording of William Schumann’s orchestration of 17-year old Charles Ives’ “Variations on America “

Crumb: Processional
Beethoven: 12 Variations on 'Menuet à la Viganò' from Haibel’s “ Le nozze disturbate “ in C, WoO 68 ( LvB age 25 )
Cage: In a Landscape
Beethoven: 7 Variations on 'God save the King' in C, WoO 78

Encore: Bach,”Goldberg” Aria

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Igor Stravinsky
Le Chant du rossignol

Claude Debussy / John Adams
Le Livre de Baudelaire

Interval

Philip Glass
Opening
Études n°9 et n°3

John Adams
“Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes” pour piano et orchestre (création française)

Ian Bostridge ténor
Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
John Adams direction

https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/maison-de-la-radio-auditorium-stravinsky-debussy-adams-glass-bostridge-olafsson-op-de-rf-adams

Feb.28,2020,Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio,Paris.Video.

I heard only the Glass and Adams,starting about 1:18:30.The audience really liked the Glass,Adams works.I have Olafsson’s recent DGG cd of several of the Glass Etudes and can recommend.Concerto interesting, a “ page-turner” for the pianist, but to operate the I-Pad concerto score as the pianist very busy here.The Adams probably a one-hear for me, could have used a touch of Glass’ lyricism.Adams apparently wrote the concerto in 2018 -2019 for Yuja Wang to give the World premiere in Los Angeles in March,2019.
“John Adams est l’un des papes de la musique américaine qu’on a tour à tour appelée minimaliste, répétitive et post-moderne. Il vient diriger sa version du Livre de Baudelaire de Debussy (il s’agit en réalité de l’orchestration des Cinq Chansons de Charles Baudelaire) et son propre Deuxième Concerto pour piano dont la création française sera ici assurée par Víkingur Ólafsson. Spécialiste de la musique américaine d’aujourd’hui, ce pianiste hors norme venu d’Islande s’est produit sur scène avec Björk et a créé six concertos de compositeurs islandais.”

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Rare opportunity to hear Galina Ustvolskaya’s brief 1946 Piano Concerto ( which I enjoy much more than the new Adams’ “Devil” PC ). There is a cd I have and can recommend coupling the PC with her First Symphony, also a very nice work,fww.

R. Strauss: Serenade in G, AV 32
Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto ( About 26:00 in )
Encore: Chopin Mazurka,Op.17,# 4
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Marianna Shirinyan, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen, conductor
February,2020


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fwrp

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Wonderful distractions for our troubled times. And K.1 - K.3 !!

I heard all except K.331. Easy for children to play ; difficult for adults to play, but not for Mme.Queffelec.I’m not a huge fan of the Mozart sonatas, but had forgotten how good K.332 is,inlcuding its last mov. “cadenza”.

MOZART
Minuet in G major, K.1 (Mozart at age 6 )
Minuet in F major, K.2
Allegro in B flat major, K.3
Piano Sonata No.13 in B-flat major, K.333
Piano Sonata No.11 in A major, K.331

Anne Queffélec, pianist

Concert recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 14 September 2018.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000hcs

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I have not heard, nor will, but some here may be interested in Gardiner and his orchestra's recent LvB 8th and 9th at Carnegie :

https://www.wqxr.org/story/listen-beethoven-john-eliot-gardiner-carnegie-hall-orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique/

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Post by Bozo
Igor Stravinsky
Le Chant du rossignol
Claude Debussy / John Adams
Le Livre de Baudelaire
Interval
Philip Glass
Opening
Études n°9 et n°3
John Adams
“Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes” pour piano et orchestre (création française)
Ian Bostridge ténor
Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
John Adams direction
https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/maison-de-la-radio-auditorium-stravinsky-debussy-adams-glass-bostridge-olafsson-op-de-rf-adams
Feb.28,2020,Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio,Paris.Video.
I heard only the Glass and Adams,starting about 1:18:30.The audience really liked the Glass,Adams works.I have Olafsson’s recent DGG cd of several of the Glass Etudes and can recommend.Concerto interesting, a “ page-turner” for the pianist, but to operate the I-Pad concerto score as the pianist very busy here.The Adams probably a one-hear for me, could have used a touch of Glass’ lyricism.Adams apparently wrote the concerto in 2018 -2019 for Yuja Wang to give the World premiere in Los Angeles in March,2019.
“John Adams est l’un des papes de la musique américaine qu’on a tour à tour appelée minimaliste, répétitive et post-moderne. Il vient diriger sa version du Livre de Baudelaire de Debussy (il s’agit en réalité de l’orchestration des Cinq Chansons de Charles Baudelaire) et son propre Deuxième Concerto pour piano dont la création française sera ici assurée par Víkingur Ólafsson. Spécialiste de la musique américaine d’aujourd’hui, ce pianiste hors norme venu d’Islande s’est produit sur scène avec Björk et a créé six concertos de compositeurs islandais.”

Listened to all of this program but in oddball order; thanks for posting.

Adams /Devil is full of drama and detail, but I agree it seemed to lack lyricism, a quality that abounds in most of the rest of the program. Well, one does not want to OD after all. Interesting program, I thought they played the Nightingale with precision and beauty.

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Post by Bozo
Interesting programme by pianist Cedric Tiberghein,whose career I follow, last week at Wigmore Hall,London. All first hearings for me, except WoO 77,78,79. The Crumb and Cage “Landscape “ really nice.
Beethoven: 5 Variations on 'Rule Britannia' in D, WoO 79
Feldman: Last Pieces
Beethoven: 6 Variations on an Original Theme in G, WoO 77
Cage: 7 Haiku
Beethoven: 9 Variations on a March by Dressler in C minor, WoO 63 (Beethoven at age 12 )
INTERVAL: A recording of William Schumann’s orchestration of 17-year old Charles Ives’ “Variations on America “
Crumb: Processional
Beethoven: 12 Variations on 'Menuet à la Viganò' from Haibel’s “ Le nozze disturbate “ in C, WoO 68 ( LvB age 25 )
Cage: In a Landscape
Beethoven: 7 Variations on 'God save the King' in C, WoO 78
Encore: Bach,”Goldberg” Aria

Is there a link for this? TIA.

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Post by number_six
Is there a link for this? TIA.

Sorry,forgot the link (damn shiraz ) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwf8

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Post by Bozo

Post by number_six
Is there a link for this? TIA.

Sorry,forgot the link (damn shiraz ) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwf8

Thanks, listening now.

Funny, here again is the Cage /Feldman /LvB combination.

Not just a chance operation!

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Strauss/Godowski -Der Zigeunerbaron Metamorphose for the left hand-Misha Krivoruchko,pianist

All the practice for 9 minutes of music !

Thank goodness he did not have to learn the right-hand part ,too !

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Post by Bozo
Strauss/Godowski -Der Zigeunerbaron Metamorphose for the left hand-Misha Krivoruchko,pianist
http://youtu.be/ijvpZpD-Pos
All the practice for 9 minutes of music !
Thank goodness he did not have to learn the right-hand part ,too !

But a great 9 min it is despite a rather abrupt end to the video.

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Was not really anxious to hear the Grieg PC, but I do follow this pianist and Vanska was conducting, as well one my favs, Sibelius # 5 , on the program ( plus , at one time I tried to play Lisiecki's encore here ). Glad I did hear. Very fine playing throughout the Concerto, esp. 2nd,3rd movs. Lisiecki will take his place among Canada’s great ones,I believe. Detailed and sharply etched , yet expansive , reading by Vanska of the 5th,great playing by LPO.

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2611244

Enregistré le 05/04/2019 au Royal Festival Hall, London

Arnold Bax - Tintagel

Edvard Grieg - Concerto en la mineur pour piano et orchestre, op. 16
Felix Mendelssohn - Venetianisches Gondellied en sol mineur, op. 19/6 (bis)

Jean Sibelius - Belshazzar's Feast, suite op. 51
- Symphonie No. 5 en Mi bémol Majeur, op. 82

Jan Lisiecki, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

[Frank Lekens]

Post by Bozo
Was not really anxious to hear the Grieg PC, but I do follow this pianist and Vanska was conducting, as well one my favs, Sibelius # 5 , on the program ( plus , at one time I tried to play Lisiecki's encore here ). Glad I did hear. Very fine playing throughout the Concerto, esp. 2nd,3rd movs. Lisiecki will take his place among Canada’s great ones,I believe. Detailed and sharply etched , yet expansive , reading by Vanska of the 5th,great playing by LPO.
https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2611244
Enregistré le 05/04/2019 au Royal Festival Hall, London
Arnold Bax - Tintagel
Edvard Grieg - Concerto en la mineur pour piano et orchestre, op. 16
Felix Mendelssohn - Venetianisches Gondellied en sol mineur, op. 19/6 (bis)
Jean Sibelius - Belshazzar's Feast, suite op. 51
- Symphonie No. 5 en Mi bémol Majeur, op. 82
Jan Lisiecki, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

Not sure if you mentioned this recently: Ingrid Fliter's lunchtime
recital at BBC. From what I've heard of her, she's often worth hearing.
(About 18 days left to listen, I think.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000hc1

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Post by Frank Lekens
Not sure if you mentioned this recently: Ingrid Fliter's lunchtime
recital at BBC.

Had not mentioned her as did not hear that recital. Have not been in much of a Chopin mood lately, but that's just me, I'm sure others here would like to hear her playing.

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Interesting 2-piano recital. I had never heard the Janacek in any version, nor the Brahms Quartet in this version.This Brahms piano version works well I thought, bit darker, more dramatic, slow mov. in this version suggesting more his late solo piano works yet to arrive. At least as played here. I did not hear the other 2 works.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9324-nederlandse-pianovirtuozen

Twee Nederlandse pianovirtuozen nemen plaats achter de vleugel: Thomas Beijer en Nicolas van Poucke. Een heerlijk concert met Johannes Brahms’ Sonate voor 2 pianos opus 34b en Lutoslawski’s hilarische Variaties op een thema van Paganini. De mannen sluiten af met het Sluwe Vosje van Janacek in een fijnzinnige bewerking door multitalent Beijer. Live March 8 ,2020,Hilversum.

Leos Janácek
Het sluwe vosje ; Sel. (Arr.)

Witold Lutoslawski
Variaties voor 2 piano's, "Variaties over een thema van Paganini"

Johannes Brahms
Sonate voor 2 piano's, op.34b

Sergej Rachmaninov
Suite voor 2 piano's nr.1, op.5, "Fantaisie-tableaux" - deel III, "Les Larmes" (Largo di molto)

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Pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati plays Bach’s 3rd and 4th Partitas, an interesting “March,Intermezzo and Waltz “ by Thomas Blomenkamp ( 1955 - ), a composer, work, not previously known to me, and Schubert’s D.958 Sonata, all in Bremen, 2019. My first hearing of this pianist.Posted because , per the BBC presenter , Andras Schiff is very enthusiastic about her Bach playing. I prefer a softer edge here, but , as Schiff apparently notes in his autobiography,what do I know ? I did not hear the Schubert.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3lx

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Post by Bozo
Interesting 2-piano recital. I had never heard the Janacek in any version, nor the Brahms Quartet in this version.This Brahms piano version works well I thought, bit darker, more dramatic, slow mov. in this version suggesting more his late solo piano works yet to arrive. At least as played here. I did not hear the other 2 works.
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9324-nederlandse-pianovirtuozen
Twee Nederlandse pianovirtuozen nemen plaats achter de vleugel: Thomas Beijer en Nicolas van Poucke. Een heerlijk concert met Johannes Brahms’ Sonate voor 2 pianos opus 34b en Lutoslawski’s hilarische Variaties op een thema van Paganini. De mannen sluiten af met het Sluwe Vosje van Janacek in een fijnzinnige bewerking door multitalent Beijer. Live March 8 ,2020,Hilversum.
Leos Janácek
Het sluwe vosje ; Sel. (Arr.)
Witold Lutoslawski
Variaties voor 2 piano's, "Variaties over een thema van Paganini"
Johannes Brahms
Sonate voor 2 piano's, op.34b
Sergej Rachmaninov
Suite voor 2 piano's nr.1, op.5, "Fantaisie-tableaux" - deel III, "Les Larmes" (Largo di molto)

Just listened to the Lutoslawski. Great fun!

Of course I shuddered at the use of the apostrophe to form a plural ("voor 2 piano's") but that's no reflection on these fine performers. Maybe it's okay in Dutch...but I doubt it.

[Frank Lekens]

Post by number_six

Post by Bozo
Interesting 2-piano recital. I had never heard the Janacek in any version, nor the Brahms Quartet in this version.This Brahms piano version works well I thought, bit darker, more dramatic, slow mov. in this version suggesting more his late solo piano works yet to arrive. At least as played here. I did not hear the other 2 works.
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9324-nederlandse-pianovirtuozen
Twee Nederlandse pianovirtuozen nemen plaats achter de vleugel: Thomas Beijer en Nicolas van Poucke. Een heerlijk concert met Johannes Brahms’ Sonate voor 2 pianos opus 34b en Lutoslawski’s hilarische Variaties op een thema van Paganini. De mannen sluiten af met het Sluwe Vosje van Janacek in een fijnzinnige bewerking door multitalent Beijer. Live March 8 ,2020,Hilversum.
Leos Janácek
Het sluwe vosje ; Sel. (Arr.)
Witold Lutoslawski
Variaties voor 2 piano's, "Variaties over een thema van Paganini"
Johannes Brahms
Sonate voor 2 piano's, op.34b
Sergej Rachmaninov
Suite voor 2 piano's nr.1, op.5, "Fantaisie-tableaux" - deel III, "Les Larmes" (Largo di molto)

Just listened to the Lutoslawski. Great fun!
Of course I shuddered at the use of the apostrophe to form a plural ("voor 2 piano's") but that's no reflection on these fine performers. Maybe it's okay in Dutch...but I doubt it.

It's okay in Dutch. Dutch, like German, has *both* its genitive S and
its plural S without apostrophe, except in some special cases where
consfusion over pronunciation might occur. Piano is such a word. So the
Dutch plural for harp is harps (yes, that's the same word as in English
too), but the plural for piano is piano's.

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Post by Frank Lekens
It's okay in Dutch. Dutch, like German, has *both* its genitive S and
its plural S without apostrophe, except in some special cases where
consfusion over pronunciation might occur. Piano is such a word. So the
Dutch plural for harp is harps (yes, that's the same word as in English
too), but the plural for piano is piano's.
--
Frank Lekens

Interesting, thanks!

[Gerard]

Post by Frank Lekens

Post by number_six

Post by Bozo
Interesting 2-piano recital. I had never heard the Janacek in any version, nor the Brahms Quartet in this version.This Brahms piano version works well I thought, bit darker, more dramatic, slow mov. in this version suggesting more his late solo piano works yet to arrive. At least as played here. I did not hear the other 2 works.
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9324-nederlandse-pianovirtuozen
Twee Nederlandse pianovirtuozen nemen plaats achter de vleugel: Thomas Beijer en Nicolas van Poucke. Een heerlijk concert met Johannes Brahms’ Sonate voor 2 pianos opus 34b en Lutoslawski’s hilarische Variaties op een thema van Paganini. De mannen sluiten af met het Sluwe Vosje van Janacek in een fijnzinnige bewerking door multitalent Beijer. Live March 8 ,2020,Hilversum.
Leos Janácek
Het sluwe vosje ; Sel. (Arr.)
Witold Lutoslawski
Variaties voor 2 piano's, "Variaties over een thema van Paganini"
Johannes Brahms
Sonate voor 2 piano's, op.34b
Sergej Rachmaninov
Suite voor 2 piano's nr.1, op.5, "Fantaisie-tableaux" - deel III, "Les Larmes" (Largo di molto)

Just listened to the Lutoslawski. Great fun!
Of course I shuddered at the use of the apostrophe to form a plural ("voor 2 piano's") but that's no reflection on these fine performers. Maybe it's okay in Dutch...but I doubt it.

It's okay in Dutch. Dutch, like German, has *both* its genitive S and
its plural S without apostrophe, except in some special cases where
consfusion over pronunciation might occur. Piano is such a word. So the
Dutch plural for harp is harps (yes, that's the same word as in English
too), but the plural for piano is piano's.

Isn't the plural for harp: harpen?

[Frank Lekens]

Post by Gerard

Post by Frank Lekens

Post by number_six

Post by Bozo
Interesting 2-piano recital. I had never heard the Janacek in any version, nor the Brahms Quartet in this version.This Brahms piano version works well I thought, bit darker, more dramatic, slow mov. in this version suggesting more his late solo piano works yet to arrive. At least as played here. I did not hear the other 2 works.
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9324-nederlandse-pianovirtuozen
Twee Nederlandse pianovirtuozen nemen plaats achter de vleugel: Thomas Beijer en Nicolas van Poucke. Een heerlijk concert met Johannes Brahms’ Sonate voor 2 pianos opus 34b en Lutoslawski’s hilarische Variaties op een thema van Paganini. De mannen sluiten af met het Sluwe Vosje van Janacek in een fijnzinnige bewerking door multitalent Beijer. Live March 8 ,2020,Hilversum.
Leos Janácek
Het sluwe vosje ; Sel. (Arr.)
Witold Lutoslawski
Variaties voor 2 piano's, "Variaties over een thema van Paganini"
Johannes Brahms
Sonate voor 2 piano's, op.34b
Sergej Rachmaninov
Suite voor 2 piano's nr.1, op.5, "Fantaisie-tableaux" - deel III, "Les Larmes" (Largo di molto)

Just listened to the Lutoslawski. Great fun!
Of course I shuddered at the use of the apostrophe to form a plural ("voor 2 piano's") but that's no reflection on these fine performers. Maybe it's okay in Dutch...but I doubt it.

It's okay in Dutch. Dutch, like German, has *both* its genitive S and
its plural S without apostrophe, except in some special cases where
consfusion over pronunciation might occur. Piano is such a word. So the
Dutch plural for harp is harps (yes, that's the same word as in English
too), but the plural for piano is piano's.

Isn't the plural for harp: harpen?

Haha, yes of course. Stupid. Anyway. The rest is mostly correct, I think.

[Bozo]

A bracing, yet sensitive , account of my fav Poulenc solo piano work, “Les Soirees de Nazelles “, pianist Llyr Williams at a festival in Wales,2019:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gcb7

My recording is Pascal Roge, a little more reserved. Surprised to hear from the BBC presenter Poulenc dismissed this composition as not very good.

[Bozo]

A heads up for Hamelin fans :

Enregistré le 25/08/2019 au Angelika Kauffmann Hall, Schwarzenberg

Henri Herz - Variations sur 'Non più mesta' de 'La Cenerentola' de Rossini

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Sonate en mi mineur pour piano, H. 281

Franz Schubert - Fantaisie en Do Majeur, D. 760 ('Wandererfantasie')

Franz Liszt - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
- Réminiscences de 'Norma'

Claude Debussy - Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses, des 'Préludes, livre 2' (bis)
- Général Lavine - Excentric : Dans le style et le mouvement d'un Cake-walk, des 'Préludes, livre 2' (bis)

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

1300 Brussels time which I believe is currently 0800 US EDT. Not sure when Europe goes onDaylight Savings Time. Tuesday,March 24.
https://www.rtbf.be/musiq3/emissions/detail_concert?programId=2011#livearea

[Bozo]

OSVALDO FATONE (Italy), piano

F. Liszt - Tarantelle di bravura d'après la tarantelle de La muette de Portici d'Auber, S.386

Live from COIMBRA WORLD PIANO MEETING 2017,
Young Talent's Concert 04/02/2017

Grande Auditório do Conservatório de Música de Coimbra

[Bozo]

Not my cup of tea, but may be yours,


Harpsichordist Paolo Zanzu plays Scarlatti in France,2018 :

https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/festival-radio-france-occitanie-montpellier-chateau-d-assas-scarlatti-zanzu

[Bozo]

A rare (?) chance to hear live the Korngold, fantastic work. I did not hear the others.

Enregistré le 22/10/2018 au Brahms Hall, Musikverein, Vienna

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Trio à clavier No. 6 en Sol Majeur, K. 564

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Suite pour Piano à la main gauche, 2 violons et violoncelle, op. 23

Felix Mendelssohn - Trio à clavier No. 2 en do mineur, op. 66

Fanny Mendelssohn - Lied, extrait du Trio à clavier en ré mineur, op. 11' (bis)

Altenberg Trio
Amiram Ganz, Violon (Korngold)

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2617766

[JohnGavin]

but the plural for piano is piano's.

[Frank Berger]

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.

Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add "es,"
such as hero - heroes.

I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

[JohnGavin]

You attributed words to me that were said by someone else. Then you went on another tangent altogether. Be careful when you copy texts.

[Gerard]

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add "es,"
such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The discussion was about the plural piano's in DUTCH. Not English.

[Frank Berger]

Post by Gerard

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add "es,"
such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The discussion was about the plural piano's in DUTCH. Not English.

I didn't know John Gavin was Dutch. Now you know something about
English you might not have known.

[number_six]

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Gerard

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add "es,"
such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The discussion was about the plural piano's in DUTCH. Not English.

I didn't know John Gavin was Dutch.

Frank Lekens might be. It was he who first replied to my query about forming plurals in the Dutch language.

All in all, it is better to have "pluralcy" than pleurisy!

:-)

[Frank Berger]

Post by number_six

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Gerard

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add "es,"
such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The discussion was about the plural piano's in DUTCH. Not English.

I didn't know John Gavin was Dutch.

Frank Lekens might be. It was he who first replied to my query about forming plurals in the Dutch language.
All in all, it is better to have "pluralcy" than pleurisy!
:-)

I wouldn't be the first person to not read an entire thread before
commenting (though I often do). I might have said what I said anyway,
actually.

[Bob Harper]

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add "es,"
such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The apostrophe denotes possession, not the plural, but that rule, which
as far as I know is hard and fast, is more frequently abused than
honored. If I had a nickel for every time I'd seen an incorrect
apostrophe in a plural, I'd be a wealthy man.

Bob Harper

[Frank Berger]

Post by Bob Harper

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that words
ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s," such as
curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant you add
"es," such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The apostrophe denotes possession, not the plural, but that rule, which
as far as I know is hard and fast, is more frequently abused than
honored. If I had a nickel for every time I'd seen an incorrect
apostrophe in a plural, I'd be a wealthy man.
Bob Harper

You would have a lot of nickel's.

[Bob Harper]

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Bob Harper

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos, without an apostrophe.
Apparently this is an exception to a general English "rule" that
words ending in o where the preceding letter is a vowel just an "s,"
such as curio - curios, but if the preceding letter is a consonant
you add "es," such as hero - heroes.
I think the only rule that holds 100% of the time in English is that
there is an exception to everything,

The apostrophe denotes possession, not the plural, but that rule,
which as far as I know is hard and fast, is more frequently abused
than honored. If I had a nickel for every time I'd seen an incorrect
apostrophe in a plural, I'd be a wealthy man.
Bob Harper

You would have a lot of nickel's.

:)

Bob Harper

[Bozo]

If you enjoy the Strauss Oboe Concerto, as I do, another very nice performance given March 11,2020,in Amsterdam, the RCO under Semyon Bychkov with the RCO’s first chair ( I assume ? ) oboist Ivan Podyomov:

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9327-bychkov-dirigeert-tsjaikovski-bij-het-concertgebouworkest

[dk]

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos,
without an apostrophe.

The plural for piano is "piani".

dk

[Bozo]

Post by dk
The plural for piano is "piani".

Here are piani , Rudenko and Lugansky, live, playing "Easter" from Rachmaninoff's Op.5 Suite,as today I believe is Orthodox Easter .Need to start in at about 19:24 ( there is a link in "Show Me" you can click to get straight there ) :

[c***@gmail.com]

Post by Bozo

Post by dk
The plural for piano is "piani".

Here are piani , Rudenko and Lugansky, live, playing "Easter" from Rachmaninoff's Op.5 Suite,as today I believe is Orthodox Easter .Need to start in at about 19:24 ( there is a link in "Show Me" you can click to get straight there ) : http://youtu.be/QfXKKLqpVi4

These live performances of the Suites are spectacular. Fortunately available by lossless download: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8166380--rachmaninov-suite-no-1-2-for-two-pianos. The couplings are great too.

AC

[Bozo]

Young pianist Kit Armstrong (Brendel protege I believe ) at De Doelen,Rotterdam,May 10,2019.Interesting program , I heard only the Beethoven Op.101, very nicely done. In “Notebooks” Richter says Op.101 is “horribly difficult to play”, more so than Op.111, and “riskier” than “Hammerklavier.”

Joseph Haydn
Fantasie voor piano Hob.XVII, nr.4 in C

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Fantasie voor piano Wq.67 , "C.P.E. Bachs Emfindungen"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonate voor piano nr.11, KV.331 "Alla Turca"

Johann Sebastian Bach
Die Kunst der Fuge ; Selections

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasie voor piano 4h KV.608 in f , “Orgelstück für eine Uhr"

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonate voor piano nr.14, op.27 nr.2 , "Mondschein"

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonate voor piano nr.28, op.101

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/8801-kit-armstrong

[Owen]

Post by dk

Post by Frank Berger

Post by Frank Lekens
but the plural for piano is piano's.

The plural for piano is pianos,
without an apostrophe.

The plural for piano is "piani".
dk

That explains that the last time I ordered a grilled sandwich, they
wheeled out a Steinway.

-Owen

[Bozo]

Post by Owen
That explains that the last time I ordered a grilled sandwich, they
wheeled out a Steinway.

2 marks !

[Bozo]

Must see TV for pianophiles.YT sound, but ticket price is good.

Recorded at the Vila-seca Music Festival, Auditori Josep Carreras (Spain) on 11 July 2015.Unfortunately, I am not fluent in Spanish,thus could not hear his several comments during the recital. But the playing !

Programme ( no Intermission ) :
- C. Katsaris: Spontaneous Improvisation on various themes
- F. Liszt: Funeral Prelude and Funeral March • Csárdás obstiné (Arr.: C. Katsaris) • Aria of Don Sanche from the opera “Don Sanche or the Castle of Love” (Arr.: C. Katsaris) • Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125 (Arr.: C. Katsaris)
- W. A. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331
- F. Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
- R. Wagner: Lohengrin’s Rebuke to Elsa (Arr.: F. Liszt) • The Ride of the Valkyries (Arr.: L. Brassin / C. Katsaris)

Encore:
- A. Marcello: Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 1 (Arr.: J. S. Bach / C. Katsaris) • A. Carrasco: Adiós

[Bozo]

A pianist I always try to hear , Severin Von Eckardstein, live in Berlin April 20, 2020, plays and interview ( in English ).Great playing here.

Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Chopin,Nocturne,Op.27,# 2
Medtner,Elegy,Op.59,# 2
Interview
Prokofieff, Sonata # 8 (Maybe a little issue near end, but wonderful reading ! )

Encore : Medtner ( I think )

https://www.schinkelpavillon.de/exhibition/live-stream-monday-friday-8-30pm/ ( Click on word “Home” opening page middle )

[Bozo]

I suspect a rare chance to hear these works live,complete. Not my fav Mompou, but wonderful; I should probably quit procrastinating, get the composer’s recording.

Some respite for our times.Stay well.

Enregistré le 29/01/2019 au Oriol Martorell Hall, L' Auditori, Barcelona

Federico Mompou - Música callada (Silent Music) Livres 1 & 2
- Música callada (Silent Music) Livres 3 & 4

Josep Colom, piano

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert?id=2627304 (Audio, ca. 70 mins. )

[Al Eisner]

Following upm on the Tommasini article posted by Oscaf a day or two
ago, I went to the web site of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center to see what else they might be live-streaming, and found that
today it would be Bartók's Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion. In
fact, they apparently pre-recorded the whole concert for streaming,
including Dohnányi's Serenade for string trio and Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir
de Florence" (possibly his best work). The entirety can be found at
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/live/1937-bartoks-sonata-for-two-pianos-and-percussion-march-15-2020/.
The two string works are terrific, and performances (see that web page
for performers, all CMS regulars I think) did them justice. The
Bartók (with pianist-couple Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung) made less
of an impact, probably because the live-streaming had trouble
capturing the spread-out instruments and dynamic range.

Checking a bit more on that site, I found more Bartók in a recent
radio program,
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/audio/national-radio-series-program-23-international-virtuosity/:

Kreisler Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta for Violin and Piano
Yura Lee, violin; Gilbert Kalish, piano

Bartók Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
Alexi Kenney, violin; Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Alessio Bax, piano

Rachmaninov Suite No. 2 in C minor for Two Pianos, Op. 17
Wu Qian, Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

I was familiar with almost all of these performers (save the clarinetist)
from Music at Menlo. The Kreisle didn't interest me much, but the
other works were great fun - I wish there was video for them.

Both programs worth checking out.

[AB]

Post by Al Eisner
Following upm on the Tommasini article posted by Oscaf a day or two
ago, I went to the web site of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center to see what else they might be live-streaming, and found that
today it would be Bartók's Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion. In
fact, they apparently pre-recorded the whole concert for streaming,
including Dohnányi's Serenade for string trio and Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir
de Florence" (possibly his best work). The entirety can be found at
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/live/1937-bartoks-sonata-for-two-pianos-and-percussion-march-15-2020/.
The two string works are terrific, and performances (see that web page
for performers, all CMS regulars I think) did them justice. The
Bartók (with pianist-couple Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung) made less
of an impact, probably because the live-streaming had trouble
capturing the spread-out instruments and dynamic range.
Checking a bit more on that site, I found more Bartók in a recent
radio program,
Kreisler Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta for Violin and Piano
Yura Lee, violin; Gilbert Kalish, piano
Bartók Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
Alexi Kenney, violin; Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Alessio Bax, piano
Rachmaninov Suite No. 2 in C minor for Two Pianos, Op. 17
Wu Qian, Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
I was familiar with almost all of these performers (save the clarinetist)
from Music at Menlo. The Kreisle didn't interest me much, but the
other works were great fun - I wish there was video for them.
Both programs worth checking out.
--
Al Eisner

many thanks for this post.... the clarinetist is wonderful

AB

[Bozo]

May be of interest . From RTBF ( Google translate ) :

"One of the Klarafestival events was the complete Beethoven quartets performed by the Catalan quartet Casals. The coronavirus pandemic that is shaking the whole world has decided otherwise, since the Klarafestival unfortunately had to be canceled.Musiq3 nevertheless invites you to listen to this complete string quartets by the Cuarteto Casals, in a concert version, recorded at the Auditorio nacional de Madrid from May 24 to 29, 2019.Each concert includes two to three Beethoven quartets but also a recent composition for string quartet commissioned by the Cuarteto Casals."

First of 6 broadcasts is Monday,March 30, 19:00 Paris time,daily thereafter I believe, and usually followed by an archived podcast about a week later.

https://tinyurl.com/vdfzgu3

[Bozo]

Couple of rarities, my first hearing of the Gablenz,Starts at about 1:06:00 into the BBC broadcast. Bit Mendelssohnian to my ear, with some echoes of Brahms and Schumann, refreshing, very lyrical, although overstayed its welcome for me. Worth hearing , but probably just once.The work was written or completed in 1926, but not given its world premiere until 1977 apparently because of a family business the composer had to attend to full time starting 1928 and then his untimely death in an airplane accident in 1937.

Gablenz: Piano Concerto, Op.25
Paderewski: Fantaisie Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra, Op.19
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Plowright, piano
Lukasz Borowicz, conductor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gt45

Bit more about the composer : https://polishmusic.usc.edu/research/composers/jerzy-gablenz/

[Bozo]

Mozart PC #22 (K.482) not my fav Mozart PC, but Pavel Kolesnikov made the first mov. much more interesting than usual, as well as an extraordinary cadenza.Lovers of the slow mov. will find much to admire here. Final mov. quite subdued, pastoral colorations , another great cadenza.Great orchestral support.Cadenzas not identified.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K.482

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gvx4

[c***@gmail.com]

Listening as I type to a live Metropolitan Opera performance from last fall of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (https://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/orfeo-ed-euridice/). Streaming on wqxr.org, tho' I'm listening the old-fashioned way to the broadcast. So far very enjoyable.

AC

Post by Bozo
Mozart PC #22 (K.482) not my fav Mozart PC, but Pavel Kolesnikov made the first mov. much more interesting than usual, as well as an extraordinary cadenza.Lovers of the slow mov. will find much to admire here. Final mov. quite subdued, pastoral colorations , another great cadenza.Great orchestral support.Cadenzas not identified.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K.482
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gvx4

[Al Eisner]

Taking advantage of a free month on the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital
Concert Hall, what I guess was their most recent program, given by
Sir Simon Rattle to an empty nhall on March 12: Berio's Sinfonia
(my firstm hearing, very impressive, I expect to listen again) and
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. With some commentary by Rattle.
Worth checking out.

[Bozo]

Gilels plays live ( video ) , I believe in 1971 , Beethoven’s Piano Sonata # 28,Op.101:

Richter on that Sonata ( in "Notebooks" ) :
“ If I’ve played the Op.110 Sonata fairly often since then ( his first year at the Moscow Conservatory) , it’s because it’s relatively easy to play.No comparison with the Op.101 Sonata,which I played on arriving in Neuhaus’s class and which is horribly difficult,more so than the Op.111, and even riskier than the Hammerklavier,though such a claim will seem heretical to many people.”

Gilels plays Weber’s Piano Sonata # 2,Op.39, live (audio) in 1968, a fav work of Moriz Rosenthal, who listed Weber as one of his fav composers, with Beethoven,Chopin,Schumann,and Schubert.Richter recorded the 3rd Weber Sonata. Both works one hears for me, so I must be missing something.

[Al Eisner]

A video gem from CMS: Benjamin Beilman and Juj+=ho Pohjonen 5 years ago
playing Schubertg's Fantasy in C major D934,
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/video/2015-video-archive-2/schubert-fantasy-in-c-major-for-violin-and-piano-d-934-op-159/

I've never understood why Pohjonen isn't better known nationally (at least).

[In the first few minutes there were several pauses as the streaming
waited for more material, but not afterwards. Hopefully just a glitch
which won't repeat.]

[Bozo]

Post by Al Eisner
I've never understood why Pohjonen isn't better known nationally (at least).

Agreed.

The PC a “guilty pleasure “ of mine, Pohjonen plays S-S PC # 5 in 2017 with Greewich,Conn. USA Symphony, live video, well done by all concerned. Encore , Grieg’s “ Butterfly” :

[Al Eisner]

Post by Bozo

Post by Al Eisner
I've never understood why Pohjonen isn't better known nationally (at least).

Agreed.
http://youtu.be/or5arpx6ZBM

Thanks, I'll take a look. I regard the SS PC's as honest pleasures, not
guilty ones. Now, "Africa" on the other hand.... :)

[Al Eisner]

Post by Bozo

Post by Al Eisner
I've never understood why Pohjonen isn't better known nationally (at least).

Agreed.
http://youtu.be/or5arpx6ZBM

One more fof violin and piano from CMS: Prokofiev Violin Sonata, with
Nicolas Dautricourt and Alessio Bax (2019),
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/video/2019-video-archive-3/prokofiev-sonata-in-d-major-for-violin-and-piano-op-94a/
Very impressive, but you likely need to turn the volume up

By the way, Steve, have you heard Malikova's set of the S-S PC's with
Thomas Sanderling on Audite? Recommended.

[Bozo]

Post by Al Eisner
By the way, Steve, have you heard Malikova's set of the S-S PC's with
Thomas Sanderling on Audite? Recommended.

No,I have not, but thanks for the tip.On my to-hear list, with Maryla Jonas' Chopin. S-S # 4 is usually my litmus test.

[Bozo]

One of my fav concertos, the Brahms “Double” , a live 2016 with the Capucon bros, Nezet-Seguin,Rotterdam Phil at De Doelen:

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/6176-het-rotterdams-philharmonisch-orkest-speelt-brahms-en-sibelius

My recording is Heifetz /Piatigorsky/Wallenstein RCA.

[Bozo]

Post by Al Eisner
By the way, Steve, have you heard Malikova's set of the S-S PC's with
Thomas Sanderling on Audite? Recommended.

Al, I did listen to the S-S # 4 (only) of Malikova/Sanderling on YT. Thanks again !! Absolutely wonderful. My recordings of # 4 are Cortot/Munch/Paris on Naxos cd and R.Casadesus/Bernstein/NYPO, a Columbia lp, but I may have to consider hearing others of hers, possibly adding this set ( post-virus vaccine ).She has, at least in # 4, more sparkle and vitality than either of the other two, yet some elegance ( perhaps not quite as elegant in the finale as the other two, she a bit more jeu d’perle there but still very fine ). Here her recording is :

[Bozo]

Post by Bozo
Al, I did listen to the S-S # 4 (only) of Malikova/Sanderling on YT. Thanks again !!

Like Trump, I lied.Did decide to hear # 2 as well.Excellent:

[Al Eisner]

Strauss Oboe Concerto, Jonathan Kelly/Simon Rattle/small ensemble of
the BP, on Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall, March 7,2020:
https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/52533#
Plus interview with Kelly at the end. The program also includes
a long Beerhoven work I've never heard.

[Bozo]

Debussy’s 1916 Violin Sonata and Franck’s Violin Sonata, Renaud Capucon, Andras Schiff live at 2019 Verbier Festival.Had not heard Schiff recently ( if ever) in this repertoire. I enjoy Debussy’s “ late “ period works, although I do not have a recording of this violin sonata , just the cello sonata.My recording of the Franck is Perlman/Ashkenazy on a London lp, not as transparent as , more lush than, Capucon,Schiff here to my ear :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000h6vk

[Bozo]

Leslie Howard gives a lesson on the 3 Concert Etudes,S.144, of Liszt , about 20 mins. video:

Also there, his lesson the the B minor Sonata.

[Ricardo Jimenez]

Post by Bozo
http://youtu.be/vz55qiWV0s0
Also there, his lesson the the B minor Sonata.

The piano sounds just like the one(s?) used in his Liszt recordings. I
am pretty sure I saw a Steinway logo during the B minor Sonata video.

[Bozo]

https://www.wqxr.org/#!/ NYC In Concert

Garrick Ohlsson, piano, livestreaming in NYC in late March.Had not heard his playing in quite some time, recorded or live. Enjoyed the Beethoven, the Chopin not as much.

BEETHOVEN: Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 22 ( one of my fav LvB sonatas )
CHOPIN: Impromptu
CHOPIN: selected Etudes, Op. 25
CHOPIN: Scherzo No. 3

I did not hear this performance also on the broadcast:

Vienna Piano Trio
- David McCarroll, violin
- Clemens Hagen, cello
- Stefan Mendl, piano

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 "Archduke"

[Bozo]

Very nice 2018 performance in Netherlands by one of the Dutch Jussen brothers ( perhaps one of each ) of Bartok's Op.14 Suite and his Piano Sonata,transparent,lyrical, "night music" and "bird song" highlighted in the Sonata rather than percussion. I did not hear the other works on the program as wanted to hear only the Bartok. https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/7681-twee-zielen-een-gedachte

[Bozo]

A recital of piano 4-hands of Satie’s “Morceaux en from de poire”, Ravel’s “Rhapsodie espagnole” and “Bolero “ , Debussy’s “Nuage et Fete extraits de Nocturnes-Iberia:III. Le nation d’un jour de fete extrait des Images”, pianists Jos van Immerseel and Ayako Ito. I believe in Marseilles recently , playing on a 1907 Erard ( but I am not fluent in French ). The Debussy arranged by one Andre Caplet, the other works apparently by their composers.

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert?id=2628734

[Bozo]

Extraordinary playing, even if this were a studio-edited cd. Live; Mon Dieu !:

Enregistré le 20/11/2019 à l'Auditorium, Parco della Musica, Rome

Frédéric Chopin : 12 Etudes, op. 25

Isaac Albéniz : Livre 3, d' 'Iberia'

Igor Stravinsky : 3 mouvemnts de Petrushka'

Frédéric Chopin : Prélude No. 13 en fa dièse mineur, op. 28/13 (bis)
Johann Sebastian BachBach : Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825 (bis)

Beatrice Rana, piano

[Bozo]

Post by Bozo
Enregistré le 20/11/2019 à l'Auditorium, Parco della Musica, Rome
... Beatrice Rana, piano

The playing sounds even better if you can hear it :

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert?id=2629673

[Bozo]

James MacMillan’s Viola Concerto, Lawrence Powers, violist, Netherlands Radio Phil. under Lahav Shani,Dec.2,2016 in Utrecht:

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/6367-avrotros-vrijdagconcert-melancholie-en-uitbundigheid

This may be the first work of the composer I’ve heard ; if not, other works of his heard earlier did not make a lasting impression. I did enjoy most of this Concerto, would hear it again, perhaps purchase a recording.

Per Wiki: “ The Viola Concerto is a composition for viola and orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. The work was jointly commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Its world premiere was given by the violist Lawrence Power and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 15 January 2014. The piece is dedicated to Lawrence Power...The viola concerto has been highly praised by music critics. Reviewing the world premiere, Fiona Maddocks of The Observer described the piece as an "inventive, three-movement piece" and said it "exploits fully the lyrical qualities of the instrument, launching with a rhapsodic solo ascent and finding bold colours via some hushed string harmonics, dissonances and glissandi. Bright sounds of harp, xylophone, vibraphone and tubular bells offset some more mellow string sounds, including those from the soloist's 400-year-old instrument." He continued, "The work, a major contribution to the repertory, is full of musical debate, not least between the solo viola and the four front-desk players of the viola and cello section, but has little in the way of show-off virtuosity for its own sake. In an unexpected gesture, the soloist finishes fractionally ahead of everyone else after some spectacular, rapid string crossing, leaving his comrades to play two final chords. Counter to its ponderous image, the viola triumphantly proves its fleet-footed ability to gallop home first." Ivan Hewett of The Daily Telegraph called it "a hugely ambitious piece, which summoned starkly opposed worlds of feeling, and forced them into anguished confrontations." David Nice of The Arts Desk also lauded the concerto, saying "the more introspective passages proved haunting in a very MacMillanesque way." The London Evening Standard wrote, "In several respects, MacMillan's concerto refuses to conform to expectations. Muted, brooding timbres make for a surprising opening but suit the viola very well, and a frequently recurring quartet of two violas and two cellos enhances the atmosphere. Similarly resourceful scoring occurs in the finale, where a solo flute invokes the sound world of the Japanese shakuhachi. Also unconventional is the explosive opening of what is otherwise a lyrical slow movement and the viola’s disappearing act at its close."

[number_six]

[from wiki] "...Fiona Maddocks of The Observer described the piece as an "inventive, three-movement piece" and said it "exploits fully the lyrical qualities of the instrument, launching with a rhapsodic solo ascent and finding bold colours via some hushed string harmonics, dissonances and glissandi. Bright sounds of harp, xylophone, vibraphone and tubular bells offset some more mellow string sounds, including those from the soloist's 400-year-old instrument." He continued, "The work, a major contribution to the repertory, is full of musical debate, not least between the solo viola and the four front-desk players of the viola and cello section..."
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Fiona is a guy???

[Frank Lekens]

Post by number_six
[from wiki] "...Fiona Maddocks of The Observer described the piece as an "inventive, three-movement piece" and said it "exploits fully the lyrical qualities of the instrument, launching with a rhapsodic solo ascent and finding bold colours via some hushed string harmonics, dissonances and glissandi. Bright sounds of harp, xylophone, vibraphone and tubular bells offset some more mellow string sounds, including those from the soloist's 400-year-old instrument." He continued, "The work, a major contribution to the repertory, is full of musical debate, not least between the solo viola and the four front-desk players of the viola and cello section..."
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Fiona is a guy???

If I were you I'd ask my money back from whoever sold you that pedia.

[number_six]

Post by Frank Lekens

Post by number_six
[from wiki] "...Fiona Maddocks of The Observer described the piece as an "inventive, three-movement piece" and said it "exploits fully the lyrical qualities of the instrument, launching with a rhapsodic solo ascent and finding bold colours via some hushed string harmonics, dissonances and glissandi. Bright sounds of harp, xylophone, vibraphone and tubular bells offset some more mellow string sounds, including those from the soloist's 400-year-old instrument." He continued, "The work, a major contribution to the repertory, is full of musical debate, not least between the solo viola and the four front-desk players of the viola and cello section..."
********
Fiona is a guy???

If I were you I'd ask my money back from whoever sold you that pedia.
--
Frank Lekens

As it happens, I do make a modest annual donation to Wikipedia, without regret. But I couldn't resist calling out the pronoun faux pas here. Sure, there are British males named Evelyn and Vivian, but Fiona would be a bridge too far...

Turning back to MacMillan, I'll be listening today to a cd of his works featuring Evelyn Glennie -- by all accounts a FEMALE percussionist.

[Bozo]

...., but Fiona would be a bridge too far...

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fiona-maddocks

[Bozo]

Elgar on BBC Radio 3.Today, May 4 “Lunchtime Concert” , his Op.82 Violin Sonata and Op.83 String Quartet, with Brodsky Quartet, pianist Martin Roscoe.Later in the week the Piano Quintet and Violin Concerto with Znaider. I have recordings of all except the Quartet, may have to consider a purchase after hear again, a fine work:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hwdf

[number_six]

Post by Bozo

...., but Fiona would be a bridge too far...

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fiona-maddocks

Thankfully!

[Bozo]

Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in Edinburgh, Feb. 2020,a pianist I follow.Was not particularly impressed first few times I heard his playing a few years ago , but he has become much more interesting,impressive since. Quite an opening “warm up “ choice , which “La Cloche” followed attaca.Not the largest sonority in the Liszt works, but wonderful transparency, rhetoric and colorations, and in rest of the recital as well.He had a plan for this programme , perhaps a study in sonic contrasts in different ages, the Beethoven compared to the preceding Liszts as a group, to the following Scriabin grouping likewise, and within the Sonata itself. ( Or, perhaps I should just shut-up.) The Scriabins played without interruption and very effectively.Kolesnikov notes he is a perfume collector.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hwyv

Liszt: Wilde Jagd from Etudes d’exécution trascendante
Liszt: La Cloche Sonne S.238
Liszt: Vision from Etudes d’exécution transcendante (No 6)
Liszt: Wiegenlied S. 198
Beethoven: Sonata No 17, Op 31 No.2 ‘Tempest Sonata’
Scriabin: Prelude Op 48 No 2
Prelude Op 22 No 3
Danse languide Op 51 No 4
Prelude Op 22 No 4
Poeme aile Op 51 No 3
Mazurka Op 3 No 9
Prelude Op 11 No 13

[Bozo]

Elgar’s wonderful Piano Quintet,Op.84, live in Edinburgh earlier this year, Brodsky Quartet and pianist Martin Roscoe, at about 21:00 into this broadcast, “Nimrod”-like second mov., the work on par , for me, with his Cello Concerto:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hx6k

[Bozo]

I had never heard Isserlis play the Elgar.Not surprisingly, indulgent but excellent , as was the rest of the programme,including Rachmaninoff’s supreme achievement “Dances” ( I dont connect with “Vespers” ). In Mussorgsky’s “Pictures” , I prefer the solo piano version, not Ravel’s ( as I believe did Richter ), but not “Dances” 2-piano version.

First broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, in April 2018.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Elgar: Cello Concerto

Interval Music: Vladimir Ashkenazy, a former Principal Conductor of the RPO, plays Rachmaninov's piano Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op. 42.

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Steven Isserlis, cello
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor

Followed by Bartok's String Quartet No. 5 played by the Calidore Quartet in a performance recorded when they were members of Radio 3's prestigious New Generation Artist scheme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j3hw

[Al Eisner]

I had never heard Isserlis play the Elgar.Not surprisingly, indulgent but excellent , as was the rest of the programme,including Rachmaninoff’s supreme achievement “Dances” ( I dont connect with “Vespers” ). In Mussorgsky’s “Pictures” , I prefer the solo piano version, not Ravel’s ( as I believe did Richter ), but not “Dances” 2-piano version.

I'm pretty sure I'm in a minority here, but for me "Pictures"
doesn't really work as a piano piece (at least much of it). It
needs Ravel, or something like that.

[graham]

Post by Bozo
I had never heard Isserlis play the Elgar.Not surprisingly, indulgent but excellent ,

His recording on Virgin in 1989, with the LSO/Hickox is also excellent
and a good alternative to JdP.

[Bozo]

... a good alternative to JdP.

Yes, Isserlis more sagacious in the live 2018 with Dausgaard than JdP in the 1965 (?) recording with JB.

[Bozo]

Post by Bozo
I did enjoy most of this Concerto, would hear it again, perhaps purchase a recording.

After second hearing today, enjoyed it all, and even more , definitely a major work to acquire. I believe the first recording will be Powers with Martyn Brabbins/BBC Phil , a Hyperion cd to be released May 29,2020.The cd will also have the composer's 4th Symphony, a work with which I am not familiar.

[Bozo]

After second hearing today, enjoyed it all, and even more , definitely a major work to acquire. I believe the >first recording will be Powers with Martyn Brabbins/BBC Phil , a Hyperion cd to be released May >29,2020.The cd will also have the composer's 4th Symphony, a work with which I am not familiar.

The Hyperion : https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68317

[Al Eisner]

I've noticed York Bowen mentioned here over recent years, often with
a flood of suggestions, but I tend to be somewhat resistant to trying
composers "new" to me - so much other stuff to listen to! But I came
across this on the CMS site:
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/watch-and-listen/video/2018-video-archive-3/bowen-phantasy-for-viola-and-piano-op-54/
Matthew Lipman is a fine violist whom I've heard many times in chamber
ensembles; the pianist is Richard Kramer. But it's the style of the
work itself that I find most interesting. I'll have to be adding
Bowen to my "pay attention" list. ;)

[Bozo]

Post by Al Eisner
I've noticed York Bowen mentioned here over recent years, often with
a flood of suggestions,... I'll have to be adding
Bowen to my "pay attention" list. ;)

Agreed about the Viola Phantasy . If you wish more hearings of Bowen, suggest his Violin Concerto, PC # 3, Piano Sonatas #2 and # 5.

[Bozo]

Fans of these particular two sonatas will want to hear these live performances given in Scotland in ? :

Beethoven Piano Sonata no.3, in C major (Williams)
Ligeti: 18 Études: Fanfares, Arc-en-ciel (Driver)
Bach: Corrente from Partita No 1 in B flat major BWV 825 (Driver)
Scriabin: Sonata no. 5 in F Sharp major Op 53 (Gavrylyuk)

Llyr Williams, piano
Danny Driver, piano
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j9c0

[Bozo]

A number of free VOD concerts of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are now available :

https://livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/browse