I was listening to the fugue of the hammerklavier sonate the last few weeks.... in a last attempt to make sense of it... but it remained an uncomfortable...
Vive le Richter! Long may he live! RJM in NYC. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Aug 1, 2006 10:45 pm
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It's a matter of personal opinion of course, but I think Solomon on EMI nailed the fugue with consummate ease and somehow, he seems to bring a musical line out...
Well well, Dmitri, 20 times listening to the fugue of op 106. I hope you will not turn out to be suffering a mental disease now... I hardly make it once every...
Ernst Levy is certainly one of the best--my favorite from beginning to end. An old Kapp LP magically brought back to life by Ward Marston on his fabulous...
I haven't gone back to compare, but Nikolaeva also would be worth hearing in this, an artist who excels in Beethoven and at bringing out the voices in fugues....
well... I agree with Gould that the sonate does not work as a unity.... maybe Beethoven should have released the fugue with the introduction as a solo ...
Neuhaus once said to one of his pupils about one of the pieces (I don't remember which, but it might well have been the fuga): So you say you don't like the...
I just put on Richter's Prague performance of the fugue, of which I keep a copy at my office. Within minutes I had a smile on my lips. I just love the piece....
The best recording of the Hammerklavier fugue, and the Hammerklavier sonata as a whole, remains the Backhaus recording of 1951, in my opinion. I would also...
Dear all, The Danish manuscript for the Richter bio is done as a fine English translation (for our sources, only) and we are working hard with illustrations....
thank you all for your advise...(and the Neuhaus quote ofcourse) I hope there will be more to come... and thank you Soren for the comment on how you experience...
Dear Group, Since many of you live in Europe, you may have heard concerts given by Oleg Maisenberg. I heard him play in Vienna in October of' '04 in a...
Dmitri, On the Backhaus set of Beethoven sonatas: If you have the newer set, that's the one you want. It has 31 stereo performances plus the Hammerklavier in...
Albert, I am not really sure about the similarities with Richter, but Maisenberg really has become an excellent pianist. Especially the 5 CD set you mention is...
I don't know the Ashkenazy recordings..... nevertheless I am surprized to see him on top. I read some bad reviews on his Beethoven recording.... things like :...
If I might add one overlooked entry into the top tier, it would be Tatiana Nikolayeva, who shines especially in the later sonatas. I think her version of Op....
... Some ten years ago I went to a recital by Ashkenazy in Rotterdam. On the programme: op. 111 and Brahms' Haendelvariations. Both pieces were supremely...
Dmitri, You express surprise that I found the Ashkenazy cycle of Beethoven sonatas to be the best among all the 30 or so cycles I have. Well, I was surprised...
Gieseking seems to have recorded Sonata No.15, Op.28 (complete) at EMI's Abbey Road studio on 18 June 1951. It is on Japanese EMI TOCE-11564 (CD) issued in...
Ates Tanin
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Aug 8, 2006 1:24 pm
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thank you for your comments. they are very usefull. and hard to find outside mailing-lists like this one.... since most books try so hard to be objective that...
I've wondered what the complete Beethoven piano sonata discussion makes in Richter list. He never did or wanted to record all of them. To take it back to...
It's probably true that the fugue has a more academic than general public appeal. A proof of that may be that the composer Prof. Karl Aage Rasmussen (soon...
the love of Richter is what we al have in common on this list. and I don't see why discussing pianorepertoire in general -which after all was Richter's...
The much praised Backhaus Beethoven cycle (the newer stereo cycle from the sixties with the 1952 Hammerklavier) is currently available here in a local shop for...
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