On Jan 17, 2:06 pm, JohnGavin comcast.net> wrote:

Not so, actually; he began it aged 22 and it was written over quite a
few months, on and off and he was 23 when he completed it.

Best,

Alistair

I am sentimentally attached to I solisti veneti on Erato because I
heard Scimone and his group perform one of them on a concert when I
was about 16: I and several other members of my high school orchestra
went out for pizza with the ensemble after the concert. Claudio
Scimone seemed surprised that I knew who Luigi Dallapiccola was.

They also played the Verdi string quartet with more than one on a
part, a perfectly authentic practice in the minds of many composers
from many traditions: adapt to the size and constitution of the
ensemble you have available. I actually wish the HIPsters would leave
19th century Italy alone, and I was very depressed to see that Flórez
is going to participate in a HIP recording of Sonnambula on Oiseau-
Lyre. Mercifully, there is no end to the live material from Italy
available on CD.

-david gable

I had the distinct pleasure of hearing Marc-Andre Hamelin at Boston's
Jordan Hall (proclaimed by Garrick Ohlssen as being the best hall for a
piano recital in the world, and there's some merit in that statement).

The program was:

Two sonatas by Haydn:

Sonata in F Major, Hob. XVI: 23
Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 41

Alexis Weissenberg's Sonata in a state of Jazz

Chopin

Barcarolle
Ballade No 3
My Joys

Liszt-Schubert

Standchen
Ave Maria

Villa-Lobos Rudepoema

Having put PBS on and seeing the Encore! program come on, I was hoping
to see some of the Van Cliburn competition footage. Instead, I got
snippets of playing with James Conlon's voice stepping on the music
trying to explore in 25 minutes whether piano performers should "be"
the music or "play" the music. Surprise! They should do both. No one
could have been more shocked than I was at this revelation.

Instead of a variety of contestants we got a lot of footage of Joyce
Yang playing a number of works quite nicely, but she never played a
complete one, and Conlon and interviewees stepped over her playing with
sheer abandonment. Do they now think we can't handle more than 60
seconds of classical music without some talking head telling us some
deep music truths that could be printed in a fortune cookie?

Disgusting.

-Owen

If you are a piano fan, or piano man, a gorgeous hour awaits here with
Stephen Prutsman, a pianist heretofore, but not hereafter, unknown to
me :

http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/wmcontent/568.asx

Enjoy Ravel,Bach,2 great compositions by the pianist, and Wagner-
Liszt.

Regards,Rugby

On Jan 26, 4:19 pm, Jeremy Meyers sonybmg.com> wrote:

You might wish to consider the St. Petersburg Soloists on Arte Nova
74321 30480. Excellent playing and recording, and at £5, worth every
penny!

On Jan 26, 7:28�pm, "thorenstd...@yahoo.com" yahoo.com>
wrote:

The fairly new Beethoven DVDs of the 32 Sonatas played by Barenboim
have been arriving by mail. Coincidentally, I also received the live
Gilels box of Beethoven from Brilliant Classics last week.

So, in close proximity I listened to the Sonata #8 (Pathetique) the
#25 in G, and the Sonata op. 26 (Funeral March) played by both
pianists in live concert situations.

Barenboim has undoubtedly mastered this music, but again, where is the
intensity, the urgency? He underplays so much of it in a refined but
borderline somnambulistic manner. The Finale of the Pathetique is
almost prettified playing.

In a similar post about Barenboim and Gilels' Beethoven, Tom Deacon
commented that Gilels often squeezed his interpretations out of the
same tube. Well, I am finding over and over just the opposite.
Gilels is the one who continally takes risks, goes out on a limb, to
communicate Beethoven's intensity, furious concentration - Gilels
played Beethoven more as a matter of life and death. (I'm speaking of
his live recordings vs. the studios).

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:21:46 -0500, O denofinequityx.com>
wrote:

In article
bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, A. Brain
NOSPAMatt.net> wrote:

This reminds me of the night of one thousand knives. The Democrats are
ganging up and throwing the Clintons under the bus. I've always said
the Democrats tend to cannibalisism, but the response against Bill and
Hillary astounds me even at my jaded age at how quickly the worm turns.

You can run adulterous affairs in the White House, lie before Congress
and grand juries, lob missiles in Pakistan to divert attention from
your dalliances, cut the knees off your best friends when it suits you
politically, and plead guilty to charges that cost you your law
license, and the Democrats not only stand behind you, they fight for
you, tooth and nail.