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Finished the whole Ron Chernow " Alexander Hamilton " biography , first book I’ve read in years. Glad we saw the musical first. Both amazing.Many parallels to today. Remarkable political discord, fears of civil war and secession, fiercely opposite US reactions to the French Revolution,all between Co...

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Largely agree.

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For Eric le Sage fans, 2 not oft heard live works ( at least in my experience ), Mozart PC # 16, K.451, and Faure’s Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra, Op.111, Jan.13,2020 at the Concertgebouw,Amsterdam, with Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Gordon Nikolic ( also Faure’s “Pelleas “ Suite and Mozart...

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Bernd Zimmermann's brief but effective Violin Sonata "Phantasy" , and Martinu's Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras,Piano and Timpani, amazing.

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I heard all, admire but still dont connect much with # 41. Enregistré le 31/10/2019 au PBA Bruxelles Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : - Symphonie n° 39 en mi bémol majeur , KV 543 - Symphonie n° 40 en sol mineur, KV 550 - Symphonie n° 41 en do majeur, KV 551, "Jupiter" Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Phil...

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Pianist Javier Perianes,Orchestra de Paris,Josep Pons, Harmonia Mundi cd, free listening of entire cd here: https://www.nporadio4.nl/cds/javier-perianes-jeux-de-miroirs Solo piano version of the complete, and orchestral version of part of , “Le tombeau de Couperin” ; Piano Concerto in G ; solo piano...

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Try Kapustin’s Bagatelles Op.59! Thanks , I did. I may have heard a couple of these before, but not all, here played complete by the composer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1iQdxAmaog Very fine works, but on balance I find the Bartok set more interesting. Another fav set of piano Bagatelles for...

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IMHO, essential viewing of Nelson Freire live solo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95k3bhIYM8 Villa-Lobos, “Danca do Indio Branco “ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5j9gYb4aI8 Villa-Lobos, “Alma Brasileira “ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV-AM_00_rs Nelson Freire em Brasília Concerto realizado ...

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Vaughan-Williams' Piano Quintet,Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble,"Moveable Feast " cd, extraordinary work.

Different performance here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3na3sPQXmHA

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Bartok's Bagatelles,Op.6,Zoltan Kocsis,Hungaraton ( I think ), amazing,especially #10, audio with score:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iaprGXqViY&t=24s

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If you are not up for 34 , here are 2 essentials,IMHO,treasured objects in my collection despite the usual sound issues with many of his recordings.What a pity he was never in the USA or recorded for RCA ,etc., but maybe he'd say otherwise: https://tinyurl.com/v6yfc94 ( Rare ) https://arbiterrecords...

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And now : https://www.amazon.fr/Milestones-Legend ... sic&sr=1-1

That may wipe out my 2020 Social Security COLA adjustment.

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Fww; I know nothing about this new (?) release or the transfers, was posted at another group who also unfamiliar :

https://www.scribendumrecordings.com/ou ... d/11414200

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:23 pm
Pianist Diane Andersen’s 1996 Arcobaleno cd of solo Bartok,...

Allan Evans' Dec.,2109, Bartok blog very much worth re-visiting: https://arbiterrecords.org/category/blog/

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Brief articles from Sydney Morning Herald today, fww:

https://tinyurl.com/yx7bp9ur
https://tinyurl.com/vuusvl3
https://tinyurl.com/vhr28xp

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Pianist Diane Andersen’s 1996 Arcobaleno cd of solo Bartok, 14 Bagatelles,Op.6 ( ca. 1909-10 ), 4 Dirges,Op.9a (ca.1909 ), and 8 Improvisations,Op.20 (1920 ).The cd also has his Piano Sonata , but I find the other works more interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_IDQmJvtbs (the Andersen cd, ...

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Carlos Surinach’s ( Barcelona 1915 - New Haven 1997) Piano Concerto (1973),Daniel Blanch,pianist,Sinfonia Varsovia,Jacek Kaspszyk,conductor,Columna Musica cd : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ1gwXGEZmU&list=OLAK5uy_m1zLDL8bQVNeZbyROCMYcJL-0qANknwIw&index=1 Interesting, dark, percussive work , virt...

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Per YT poster : “ A piano concerto by Spanish Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols (1912-2002). He dedicated this work to pianist Alicia de Larrocha, who premiered it with Louis de Froment and the Barcelona Orchestra in 1953.” Piano: Angela Cheng Conductor: Hans Graf Calgary Philharmonic O...

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Although his Rach 3 certainly not chopped liver, here live video from a 2017 in Germany ( on a Bechstein, but YT sound ) , especially fine slow mov. ( becoming more the highlight of this Concerto for me ) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzyprubgjo

Encore, Chopin’s “Raindrop” Prelude.

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Thanks I do hope to see the play someday. We'll be in NYC alot this winter season-I should stop by the box office and see what the ticket situation might be like at this point. Regards, Len Fww: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/hamilton-ny-new-york-new-york-01-07-2020/event/030056B4F0E84263 https://ww...

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The 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition Final Round, in which one of the concertos Lu played was the Beethoven 4th. Eric Lu won the 1st Prize and Terence Judd–Hallé Orchestra Prize.The Hallé, Edward Gardner, conductor, Leeds Town Hall . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8WC4g23nuo There are al...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:36 pm
Lance love all his symphonies but haven't listened to this one in a long time-it'll be on tonight while I'm in the kitchen! Regards, Len

" I often cook with wine.Sometimes,I even add it to the food." WC Fields

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Whether satisfied with the results, or not, or like the work or not, a performance I dont think you’ll want to miss. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Marlis Petersen (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Kwangchul Youn (bass) Rundfunkchor Berlin Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Pe...

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Today I viewed a YT where an audience clapped at the end of the 2nd mov. of LvB Op.109 piano sonata !! Fortunately the pianist did not acknowledge.I suspect he was not happy. I have also attended a lieder recital where audience applauded after every song in a Schubert cycle.

Egads in both cases.

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Thanks for the tip, especially since # 2 is the only Tchaikovsky symphony I listen to with any regularity, # 5 only once in great while.

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Despite not great sound, coughing, and applause after 2nd mov., a very nice 2018 live LvB Op.109 by Lu, especially final mov.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ST7GxL2lKU

A wonderful Prokofieff 7th Sonata by Lu in 2017 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VjeY2gshzk

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From Australian writer Richard Flanagan( born 1961). Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” and is the author, most recently, of the novel “First Person.” More on Flanagan, “considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation” , accord...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:01 pm
Wow, here in NYC it's tough and expensive to get seats-where'd you see it? Regards, Len

Downtown Chicago this past Saturday.Today was its last day in Chicago, then the production moves to San Francisco.

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Trump is an imbecilic madman we should not have to suffer gladly. Should not demean apes,Machiavelli,or Nixon by mentioning them in same breath as Trump.Saw a performance of the musical "Hamilton " over this past weekend, a reminder how far leadership and wisdom in the USA has fallen.

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A pianist new to me.Here a warm-hearted , nostalgic vs. dramatic , distinctive view of the Ballades that works for me most, but not all, of the time ( I dont connect with the PIT although I think well-played ), the Chopin starting at about 47:00 in . I did not hear the Schuberts. Enregistré le 12/11...

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Last night heard a Deutsche Welle re-broadcast of Kirill Petrenko's March (?),2019 debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin,Beethoven 9. Correction August,2019, and not his debut with the BPO ,but " inaugural" concert. Apparently,can hear it on BBC Radio 3 Jan. 6 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/program...

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Last night heard a Deutsche Welle re-broadcast of Kirill Petrenko's March (?),2019 debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin,Beethoven 9. Not sure I agreed with all his tempo choices, but a stunner.Would suggest it may be worth the price of admission at the BPO's Digital Concert Hall. There is a ...

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https://tinyurl.com/tbscn6y

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New Onyx label cd by the Macedonian.The Prokofieff the more interesting of the works,IMHO, but free listening here of complete cd : Prokofieff, Tales of an Old Grandmother,Op.31 Mussorgsky : Night on Bald Mountain Rimsky-Korsakov : Sheherazade https://www.nporadio4.nl/cds/simon-trpceski-tales-from-r...

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2018 Leeds Competition winner Eric Lu live recently : Brahms Intermezzi voor piano (3), op.117 - nr.1 Schumann Thema met variaties, 1854, "Geistervariationen" Chopin, Frédéric Preludes , op.28 - compleet Schubert, Franz Impromptu's voor piano (4) D.899, op.90 - nr.3 29 december 2019  Koninklijk Co...

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Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:34 pm
Thanks for this review ! I have the pianist’s Somm cd of the Dale and Hurlstone piano sonatas, the Hurlstone a work that deserves to be heard more, a fine reading by Bebbington.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCI1tCH ... o&index=11

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Pianist Severin von Eckardstein's live Alkan Piano Sonata " Les Quatre Ages" , 2001 recital in Siegen,Germany. Stunning.Not to be missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TqWqdM1rWw&t=8s

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Sabaneev Piano Trios, my Genuin cd, Ilona Then-Bergh,violin,Wen-Sinn Yang, cello,Michael Schafer,piano. Amazing music.

Here, too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxK379u ... -hp5MwtU4I

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Gabriel Dupont’s “ Poeme “, my Mirare cd, also here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFepzzOcRk0&t=3s

Marie-Catherine Girod : piano
Quatuor Pražák

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Hans Gal,Violin Sonata,Op.17, Nurit Pracht,Konstantin Lifschitz, Nimbus cd “The Emigre Composers”.

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And after the Janacek,Protopopov's Piano Sonata No.2, Stefan Schleiermacher,pianist,"Soviet Avant Garde" cd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzW8PWB-aU8

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Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:59 am
Isabelle Faust,Eva Kupiec playing Janacek's wonderful Violin Sonata,Harmonia Mundi cd.

A different recording of that Janacek Violin Sonata:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-yVswUQAs

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Isabelle Faust,Eva Kupiec playing Janacek's wonderful Violin Sonata,Harmonia Mundi cd.

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23 year - old Anton Webern’s Quintet for Piano and Strings,M.118, written 1907, brief (11 minutes) , but intense ( ! ) work I’ll want to re-hear, my first hearing yesterday in a different live broadcast.He had just started to study with Schoenberg A 1986 DGG recording of the Webern by LaSalle Quarte...

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Very fine recital from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland recently, a young Norwegian pianist I follow, having his cd of the Mozart PC’s 21,22 . If you have not heard the Nielsen work, recommended ; I enjoy it more than the Grieg Ballade. Andsnes recorded the Nielsen on his debut solo cd . Grieg – Lyri...

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Done recently, approx. 60 minutes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000cnmr

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:38 am
Listening just now, not sure what else will be heard , but presenter says Mozart,Ravel and Schumann:
https://www.kusc.org/radio/on-demand/sundays-live/

Schumann's "Arabesque" , Op.18 from 2014 , Mozart K.332 Sonata from 2017,and 2015 Ravel's "Valse Nobles et Sentimentales".

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The Dec.22 memorial programme of relatively recent live playing from KUSC Radio ( scroll down to Dec.22, click on arrow ) starting with a 2014 recital performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No.10,Op.14,# 2.Listening just now, not sure what else will be heard , but presenter says Mozart,Ravel and Schumann...

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Thanks for this review ! I have the pianist’s Somm cd of the Dale and Hurlstone piano sonatas, the Hurlstone a work that deserves to be heard more, a fine reading by Bebbington. He has a number of recordings of rarely heard works including some premiere recordings.Was also interested in your work wi...

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The Chopin Ballades, worth hearing. YT I suspect from one of the Vox cd's, apparently originally on lp,label ?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-eBidEhKQ

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