Recordings of live performances of note - XXIV

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I suspect the Busoni not often heard live. Played by pianist Igor Levit here :

Liszt, Franz
Prelude voor piano S.179, "Präludium nach J.S. Bachs Kantate "Weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen""

Busoni, Ferruccio
Fantasie voor piano K.256, "Fantasia contrappuntistica"

August 13, 2019, Salzburg

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9208-recital-igor-levit

Levit makes the work more attractive for me than does Wolf Harden in his recording I have, but still a tough nut to crack.

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Pianist Lars Vogt, whose playing I’m enjoying more recently than earlier in his career, at 2019 Edinburgh Festival, exceptional playing throughout, the Janacek , Beethoven played attaca:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007r2c

Brahms: Op.117 complete,Op.119 complete, Book 1 Paganini Variations
Pause
Janacek : Piano Sonata “1905”
Beethoven: “ Appassionata” Sonata

Encores: Brahms , Op.118, # 2 , and a Prelude and Fugue by Friedrich Gulda.

Great Brahms playing, a few smudges in the Paganini reminding how difficult that work is.Fine emotive playing also in the Janacek, distinctive Beethoven,although the attaca added nothing for me, would have preferred a traditional break.

[Bozo]

Wonderful playing. Have heard Chamayou play “Miroirs” several times, one of this best here. The sonatas are gems, the Britten not heard often (? ) I wonder:

Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte - Miroirs
Debussy - Sonate pour violoncelle en ré mineur, L. 135.
Britten - Sonate pour violoncelle en do majeur, op. 65.
Mendelssohn - Song Without Words en ré majeur, op. 109 (encore)

Avec Sol Gabetta, violoncelle et Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Enregistré le 29 juin 2019 à Olsberg

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_les-grands-festivals-de-l-ete?id=2533256

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A chance to hear the now 20-year old cellist who played at Prince Harry’s wedding, and wonder why the Weinberg London premiere not until 2019 ( the Interval discussion suggests he needed an advocate ).

From the BBC program notes for Proms 46, August 22,2019 :

“ Live at BBC Proms : CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla perform music by Weinberg, Howell and Knussen, and are joined by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Elgar's cello concerto. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Dorothy Howell: Lamia (Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1919)
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

Interval: An exploration of the life and work of Mieczysław Weinberg with musicologists Erik Levi and Daniel Elphick

Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder
Weinberg: Symphony No. 3 (1949-50) (London premiere)

The CBSO and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla celebrate the centenary of Mieczysław Weinberg the man Shostakovich hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding composers’ of his day – with a rare performance of his Symphony No. 3, a work that combines folk melodies and dances with confessional urgency. That intensity is shared by Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto, performed here by 2016 BBC Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The concert opens with Dorothy Howell’s radiant tone-poem Lamia (first performed, like Elgar’s concerto, 100 years ago) and also includes The Way to Castle Yonder, a suite from the much-missed Oliver Knussen’s opera Higglety Pigglety Pop! “

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007rkh

Kanneh-Mason played an encore, one of the 24 Preludes for Solo Cello by Weinberg ( whose own Cello Concerto is great). Weinberg wrote them in 1969 for Rostropovich, who apparently never played them publically, perhaps cutting ties when he defected.

Fww, duPre was 20 when she recorded the Elgar in 1965 with Barbirolli/LSO.

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Evgeny Kissin's Beethoven recital at 2019 Verbier.

“ Pathetique “ , “Eroica” Variations, “Tempest “ , “Waldstein”.

Encores: Op.33 Bagatelles, # 5, # 1.

July 24,2019.

Free tv. I'm just listening just now.

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/evgeny-kissin-plays-beethoven-sonates/#

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Post by Bozo
Evgeny Kissin's Beethoven recital at 2019 Verbier.

" Tempest " is shown in the progress bar, but skipped for me.Cant complain, the ticket price is reasonable.

[Bozo]

Been too many years since I listened to the Beethoven and Brahms. The Prokofieff was extraordinary even with Argerich / Dutoit DGG recording in mind , so much so I had to go on to the very fine reading of the Brahms :
Beethoven , Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72b
Sergey Prokofiev , Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, op. 26
Encores:
Rachmaninov , Etude-Tableau in E flat minor, op. 39/5 ( bit more left hand in climax, please, but inspired )
Chopin , Prelude No. 25 in C sharp minor, op. 45 (whether or not Chopin, sensitive playing )
Interval
Johannes Brahms , Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73

RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Gledre Slekyte (conductor), Aleksander Gadzijev( piano ) in Ljubljana,date ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007rkp

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Hans Kox’s 9-minute Piano Quintet No.2, which I decided to hear as intrigued by the length, but actually enjoyed ( perhaps as a result ) , played by a group August 16,2019 at Aula Minor Rolduc :

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9215-de-jonge-beethoven-en-de-jeugd-heeft-de-toekomst

More on the composer :

http://donemus.nl/hans-kox/

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Pianist Wei Luo’s debut album available for free listening at WQXR, she one of WQXR’s “19 for 19” artists to watch , a pianist not previously known to me. Due to time constraints this am, I heard only the 2 Shostakovich Preludes, the slow movs. of the Haydn and Prokofieff, and second Schedrin.Will go back when have more time.Worth hearing , IMHO.

https://www.wqxr.org/story/listen-pianist-wei-luo-debut-album/

Ravel, “La Valse”
Shostakovich , P&F Nos.5,24,Op.87
Haydn, # 52
Prokofieff ,# 7
Schedrin,Two Polyphonic Pieces

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Post by Bozo
A chance to hear the now 20-year old cellist who played at Prince Harry’s wedding, and wonder why the Weinberg London premiere not until 2019 ( the Interval discussion suggests he needed an advocate ).
“ Live at BBC Proms : CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla perform music by Weinberg, Howell and Knussen, and are joined by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Elgar's cello concerto. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Dorothy Howell: Lamia (Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1919)
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Interval: An exploration of the life and work of Mieczysław Weinberg...

https://www.wfmt.com/2019/09/01/concertos-by-moise-weinberg/

[Bozo]

Isabelle Faust,Alexander Melnikov play all Brahms Violin Sonatas,and Schumann’s (?) Sonata F-A-E recently in Switzerland I believe :

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2534767

Some years ago Simon Roberts here was enthusiastic about their recording of Beethoven sonatas.

[Bozo]

BBC Proms 52 : The Britten Sinfonia with Marc-André Hamelin and Ryan Wigglesworth, playing Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London,August 28,2019

Mozart: Concerto in E flat major for two pianos
Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4, 'Mozartiana'
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1897

Interval: Musicologist Jonathan Cross introduces Stravinsky’s Divertimento: The Fairy’s Kiss.

Ryan Wigglesworth: Piano Concerto
BBC co-commission with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: World premiere

Stravinsky: Divertimento 'The Fairy's Kiss'


Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Britten Sinfonia
Ryan Wigglesworth, piano ( in the Mozart ) and conductor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007y85

The Wiggelsworth interesting as , to my ear, a chamber-like quality most of the time, rather than full-throated orchestral forces. I suspect quite a difficult work for both the occasional orchestra soloists, pianist, and ensemble coordination , but for me more perspiration involved than inspiration, a one-hear. The Mozart suggested again there may actually be a God, until one then reads the latest news from Washington,DC, London,Brasilia.

[Bozo]

FYI,FWW:

On Saturday, 31 August, 11am Central European Time, CET, ( 4 am US CDT ), MEDICI TV will be broadcasting the video stream live of Haitink's penultimate concert:

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/bernard-haitink-conducts-bruckner/

Emanuel Ax | Pianist

Wiener Philharmoniker
Bernard Haitink | Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107

Venue: Grosses Festspielhaus (Salzburg, Austria)

One can hope it will be free VOD for awhile after the live broadcast.Site currently gives no indication one way or other.

[Bozo]

“Stephanie Blythe stars as Blythely Oratonio in DITO & AENEAS, an opera-drag-cabaret event which took over the TLA in Philadelphia on Friday, February 24, 2016. Blythely sings a pop-opera mash-up of "M'appari" from Flotow's "Martha" to his new love, Martha Graham Cracker. “

This year :

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/arts/music/resonant-bodies-festival.html

[Bozo]

On Saturday, 31 August, 11am Central European Time, CET, ( 4 am US CDT ), MEDICI TV will be >broadcasting the video stream live

As hoped, free VOD now : https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/bernard-haitink-conducts-bruckner/

Multi-hued,subtly shaded , transcendent Beethoven PC # 4 , even thru Internet sound,the way I like this concerto presented, my fav of the composer’s five PC’s. Emanuel Ax just great.

Interesting encore : Chopin’s 3rd Waltz .

Does the VPO governing group choose guest artists , as well as conductors ?

Treat to hear VPO play the Bruckner symphony I do listen to, # 7, especially on such an occasion. Haitnik blows a kiss to the woodwinds, brass at the end of second mov. As I recall, Kurt Masur chose this Bruckner symphony for his NYPO debut as Music Director ca. 1992 (?).

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/bernard-haitink-honoured-by-the-vpo-has-announced-his-retirement

Haitnik 100 times with VPO ; wonder what was discussed at rehearsal about the works ? Appears VPO now includes at least 5 women.

[Bozo]

Then 6-year old Elisey Mysin in 2017 :

1. V. Rebikov op. 9 No. 17 Dervish
2. O. Nesipkhanov Waltz
3. P.I. Tchaikovsky Children's Album: Morning Reflection, Polka
4. S. Prokofiev Children's music, Op. 65 “Fairy Tale”
5. E. Grieg op. 3 Poetic picture No. 6

(2018,Rachmaninov “ Polka” with Matsuev, Putin in audience)

(2019 , Chopin Mazurka Op.7,#1 )

(2019,a mov.from Mozart PC # 3 ? )

Hopefully he'll have a "childhood", if there is such a thing in the digital / social media age.

[Bozo]

Post by Bozo
Treat to hear VPO play the Bruckner symphony I do listen to, # 7, especially on such an occasion. Haitnik

If you prefer the same program a few days later at Proms : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00083nh

[Alan Dawes]

Post by Bozo

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 12:18:40 PM UTC-5, Bozo wrote: Treat to
hear VPO play the Bruckner symphony I do listen to, # 7, especially
on such an occasion. Haitnik

If you prefer the same program a few days later at Proms : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00083nh

I heard the live broadcast last night - it took me back 53 years to being
a teenager standing at the Proms on 22nd Aug 1966 when Haitink first
performed it at the proms with the BBC symphony orchestra.

Sadly it looks like the BBC were not allowed to video it, I assume because
there will be a commercial video release of his last ever peformance of
the same programme in Lucerne later this month.

Alan

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Post by Alan Dawes
Sadly it looks like the BBC were not allowed to video it, I assume because
there will be a commercial video release of his last ever peformance of
the same programme in Lucerne later this month.

There is video of the Salzburg performance of this same program last week :

Free VOD now for about 60 days : https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/bernard-haitink-conducts-bruckner/

[Bozo]

Lukas Geniusas plays 12 of Leonid Desyatnikov’s ( 1955 - ) 24 Preludes for Piano,”Songs of Bukovina”,described by one critic as “ minimalism with a heart “ , interesting but probably a one hear for me :

I follow Geniusas ( winner 2010 Bachauer Competition, 2nd 2010 Chopin Competition, 2nd with Li 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition) , and the composer was new to me, thus my hearing.

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2015 Chopin Competition winner Cho plays the Prokofieff PC # 2 at Proms:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000841w

I liked his Prokofieff better than most of his Chopin I heard in 2015. A more majestic, melancholy approach to the first mov. cadenza ( perhaps not completely technically pristine ? ), lighter touch in the third mov.,but probably not to all tastes in this work. Encore was slow mov. of Mozart's K.332 Piano Sonata.

Kavakos played this Tarrega/Ricci encore (my first hearing) after the Korngold VC at Proms ( the VPO apparently think highly of Kavakos ), here a much younger Kavakos playing it :

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Sergei Babayan, Verbier Festival Orchestra,Gabor Takacs-Nagy play Mozart’s PC # 9, K.271, “Jeunehomme” , at 2019 Verbier Festival ; extraordinary:

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/gabor-takacs-nagy-conducts-brahms-symphony-no-2-in-d-major/

Free VOD.

[Bozo]

For fans of the wonderful, but not often heard (?) Chausson Concert for Violin,Piano and String Quartet,Op.21,Renaud Capucon,Nicolas Angelich, and Hermes Quartet live recently:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000841h

My cd I can recommend: https://tinyurl.com/y647jdz2

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Post by Bozo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000841h
My cd I can recommend: https://tinyurl.com/y647jdz2

We did the Chausson this summer at our Valley of the Moon Music Festival here in Sonoma. Rachel Barton Pine was the violin. A fantastic piece of music and the performance was great.

I noticed also that the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco will be doing it this fall with Daniel Hardin.

I have the same CD you do. Wonderful!

Martin

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We did the Chausson this summer at our Valley of the Moon Music Festival here in Sonoma. Rachel Barton >Pine was the violin. A fantastic piece of music and the performance was great.

Wow, the Chausson in Summer with a Sonoma wine at hand , ideal !

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Post by Bozo

We did the Chausson this summer at our Valley of the Moon Music Festival here in Sonoma. Rachel Barton >Pine was the violin. A fantastic piece of music and the performance was great.

Wow, the Chausson in Summer with a Sonoma wine at hand , ideal !

It was kind of special. Our festival players perform on original instruments and it does wonders for balances between piano and strings. Our string players use gut and our pianist played a marvelous Chickering grand from around 1905.

Another wonder this summer was the first piano trio by Cesar Franck. I think if you go to the Valley of the Moon Music Festival page on Youtube, you can hear both pieces, or at least excerpts.

Martin

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Enjoy Joseph Jongen's solo piano works, but had not heard any of his larger scale works. His Symphonie Concertante, Op.81, for Organ and Orchestra a beauty, symphonic tone poem. I did a back to back hearing , here Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig under Louis Langree,Michael Schoenheit,organist, Sept.9,2019 :

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9242-jongens-symfonie-concertante

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Renaud Capucon,violin,Edgar Moreau ,cello,Nicholas Angelich,piano live. Free VOD.

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/renaud-capucon-edgar-moreau-and-nicholas-angelich-play-mendelssohn-and-brahms/

Sept.10,2019, Tsinandali Festival

Mendelssohn Trio No.1, Op.49

Brahms, Trio No.1, Op.8

Heard only the Brahms. I follow all these artists, especially cellist Moreau.

And Brahms : Op.1 1st Piano Sonata, Op.2 2nd Piano Sonata, Op. 4 Scherzo for piano ,Op.5 3rd Piano Sonata,this Op.8, Op.9 Schumann Variations,Op.10 4 Ballades, Op.15 1st Piano Concerto, whew !

[Bozo]

An interesting program,several new to me, really liked the Poulenc.

Concert du 6/10/2018 en différé du Kings Place à Londres avec Stephen Kovacevich et Margaret Fingerhut, pianos

Robert Schumann / Claude Debussy : Six Studies for Pedal Piano, op. 56
Arnold Bax : The Poisoned Fountain - Hardanger (Homage to Grieg), pour 2 pianos
Francis Poulenc : Élégie en accords alternés, pour 2 pianos - Capriccio (d'après Le bal masqué) - L'embarquement pour Cythère, for two pianos
Igor Stravinsky : Concerto pour 2 Pianos
Claude Debussy : En blanc et noir - Danse sacrée et Danse profane, L. 103
Serge Rachmaninov : Rhapsodie russe en mi mineur, pour 2 pianos (1891)

Stephen Kovacevich, piano (Wk. 8) - Margaret Fingerhut, piano (Wks 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6)

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2540842

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Viktor Tretyakov ( Tchaikovsky Comp. winner 1966 ) plays the wonderful Prokofieff VC # 1 ( one of my fav VC’s ) with Gergiev live in Rotterdam in 1996 :

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/457-gergiev-festival-1996-rotterdams-philharmonisch-orkest-o-l-v-valery-gergiev

Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist David Kadouch play Frank,Poulenc,Strohl live , the programme from their 2018 Erato cd :

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2541658

Pianist-conductor Lahav Shani plays Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with Gergiev live in Rotterdam Sept.12,2019, my first hearing of the pianist and work (great work ):

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9245-gergiev-festival-de-kleuren-van-parijs

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Piotr Anderszewski plays Beethoven’s Op.110 at 2019 Schwetzingen Festival,starting at about 24:00 in to this BBCR3 broadcast. Very interesting and excellent throughout I thought.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008hvn

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https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9245-gergiev-festival-de-kleuren-van-parijs

Thanks for posting! For those who preferred "no applause" with their live recordings, be warned, the Stravinsky is *very* well received by the audience, and rightly so. But it is part of the dokumente, and they did allow that little envelope before showing their appreciation. Look at the timing on that Bolero, but of course some of it was applause. This was a great show.

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Fazil Say on Medici TV. I heard the first half.Not sure I'd ever heard the C minor Nocturne before.

Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in E minor No. 19, Op. posth. 72, No. 1
Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. Posth., Lento con gran espressione, KK IVa/16
Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in C Minor, Op. Posth., KK IVb/8
Frederic Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata"

Erik Satie, The Gnossiennes
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3

Claude Debussy, Preludes, Book I
10. La cathédrale engloutie
12. Minstrels
11. La danse de Puck
8. La fille aux cheveux de lin

Fazil Say, Sonata for piano, Op. 52 - "Gezi Park 2"
İstanbul Sokaklarında Direniş Geceleri – Nights of resistance on the streets of Istanbul
Gaz Bulutunun Sessizliği – The silence of the gas cloud
Berkin Elvan - On the killing of the innocent child Berkin Elvan
Umut Hep Yüreğimizdedir – Hope is always in our hearts

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Fazil Say, Alla Turca Jazz
Fazil Say, Summertime Variations


Venue: Tsinandali Estate Amphitheatre (Tsinandali)
Broadcast date: Friday, September 20, 2019

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/fazil-say-plays-chopin-beethoven-satie-and-say/

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Yuja Wang plays the Shostakovich PC # 1 and Martin Froest the Mozart CC at 2019 Tsinandali Festival :

https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/yuja-wang-plays-shostakovich-and-beethoven/

I listen to the PC mainly to hear the great slow mov.

[Bozo]

It appears Medici TV has ended even limited-time free VOD's post-concerts, and no more free lives.Unless my connection is malfunctioning.

[Bozo]

I have Schnabel's '30's recordings of the Beethoven PC's, as well as his LvB # 4 with Stock , and this original NYPO comemmorative cd release of a live 1945 NYPO broadcast , with Szell conducting of # 3. For me, Schnabel's #3 and # 4 (first) are his most successful of the 5, and this with Szell perhaps Schnabel's " best " # 3:

Fww, take care if you're on the wrong side of Mount Blanc: https://tinyurl.com/y2cjdrm6

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Pletnev plays "Pictures", not sure when ,where,perhaps Germany circa 2009-2010,live video,quite something even with YT sound:

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I have not heard a lot of Judith Weir's music,have not much warmed to most that I have, but this UK premiere of her Oboe Concerto exhibits are very appealing,lyrical,elegiac work:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008rbh ( At about 17:00 in )

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As I follow violinist Alina Ibragimova, I listened to her live performance of the apparently rarely heard Violin Concerto,Op.8, of Richard Strauss,composed when he was 17,premiered in 1882,here with the RTE National Orchestra in Dublin this past May, under Leonard Slatkin. Impressive work for a 17-year old, Ibragimova gave a dedicated reading, slow mov. most interesting , but the work a one-hear for me, his Violin Sonata more attractive for me :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008w7c

[Bozo]

A delightfully varied, all very well-played program by a 45-year old pianist new to me.Impressive:

At about 24:00 in to the broadcast (audio only ) :

Rameau L'enharmonique (extrait de la suite en sol)
Bach-Busoni Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Mozart Fantaisie en ré min
Beethoven Sonate au clair de lune

Pause : I did not listen to the discussion, music presented.

Le Guay resumes again at about 1:26:00 in :

Schubert Impromptu op 90 n.1
Liszt Funérailles
Chopin Nocturne op 27 n.2
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
De Falla Danse rituelle du feu
Dutilleux Choral et variations ( Great work ; 2:09:00 in )

Encore: Schumann, “Kinderscenen”,No.1

Claire-Marie Le Guay , piano
Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth a Waterloo, Oct.2,2019

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2549125

Bio: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Le-Guay-Claire-Marie.htm

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Recital in Vienna , not sure date, by Leif Ove Andsnes. A couple of the Sibelius possibly, and the Widmann definitely,new to me.I tried, long ago and unsuccessfully , to learn the Sibelius Romance ( and also my apologies to the President of Finland for Trump’s recent boorish behavior during his visit to the US ). Have not connected with much Widmann’s music in the past , but a little better for me here.Good to be reminded what a wonderful pianist Andsnes is.

Sibelius : Five works : Björken (The Birch), op. 75/4 - Impromptu, op. 97/5 - Vivace, op. 68/2 - The Shepherd, op. 58/4 - Romance in D flat, op. 24/9
Jörg Widmann : Idyll und Abgrund, Six Schubert Reminiscences for Piano
Schubert : Three Piano Pieces, D. 946
Chopin : Nocturne No. 17 in B, op. 62/1 - Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23

Chopin : Ballade No. 3 in A flat, op. 47 (encore ? )
Sibelius : Impromptu in B minor, op. 5/5 (encore )

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2549681

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Post by Bozo
Rameau L'enharmonique (extrait de la suite en sol)
Bach-Busoni Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Mozart Fantaisie en ré min
Beethoven Sonate au clair de lune
Pause : I did not listen to the discussion, music presented.
Schubert Impromptu op 90 n.1
Liszt Funérailles
Chopin Nocturne op 27 n.2
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
De Falla Danse rituelle du feu
Dutilleux Choral et variations ( Great work ; 2:09:00 in )
Encore: Schumann, “Kinderscenen”,No.1
Claire-Marie Le Guay , piano
Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth a Waterloo, Oct.2,2019
https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2549125
Bio: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Le-Guay-Claire-Marie.htm

Yes! She made some nice Haydn & Mozart recordings, & I heard her play
Haydn live once in Germany. Fine recital that was too.

[HT]

Years ago I bought Le Guay's Liszt etudes and Schumann Kreisleriana. Professional performances but nothing special. I stopped following her. She may be one of those performers who age well (sounds weird for someone who is only 45 yrs. old). I'll try the RTF link.

Henk

[HT]

Seconded! Thanks for the link, Steve. She deserved a larger audience than the one at the Chapelle.

Henk

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Denis Matsuev, piano.

Enregistré à Bruxelles, ce 28 septembre 2019, au Studio 4 de Flagey.

Tchaikovsky, Les Saisons, op. 37a
Rachmaninov, des Études-Tableaux, op. 39 : n° 2 & 6
Tchaikovsky, des 18 Pièces pour piano, op. 72 : n° 5 Méditation
Liszt, Sonate pour piano en si mineur, S. 178

Bis:
Anatoly Liadov - La boite à musique, op. 32
Sibelius - Etude n°2, op. 76
Scriabine - Etude opus 8 nr 12
Grieg - « Dans l'antre du roi de la montagne », extrait de Peer Gynt, op. 23

An astonishing bravura display, and live ?! But….
Perhaps Matsuev believes the method or the medium is the message, a live piano recital not to be akin to a seance ?

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2550747

[Bozo]

Wont appeal to all tastes, but I enjoy ( and have a recording of ) Henri Dutilleux’ Cello Concerto, “Tout un mode lointain…”, written for Rostropovich, here a perhaps rare (?) live performance by cellist Victor Julien-Laferriere with RCO under Gergiev , in Amsterdam Oct.3, 2019 :

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9275-valery-gergiev-dirigeert-sjostakovitsj-monumentale-vierde-symfonie

From the cellist’s website :
​
“ 1st Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 in Brussels, as part of the first edition dedicated to cello, Victor Julien-Laferrière also won the 1st Prize and two special prizes at the 2012 Prague Spring International Competition. In 2018, he was awarded the Victoire de la Musique in France as “Best Instrumental Solo”….Victor Julien-Laferrière began the cello with René
Benedetti, then studied successively with Roland Pidoux at the Paris Conservatoire, Heinrich Schiff at the University of Vienna and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. At the same time, he took part from 2005 to 2011 at Seiji Ozawa International Music Academy in Switzerland….He also receives many recording awards, including the Diapason d’or of the year 2017 for his sonata album with the pianist Adam Laloum. In January 2019, Victor Julien-Laferrière releases a new album devoted to Schubert with the Trio Les Esprits (Sony Music). His next release is planned for the Automn 2019 with the pianist Jonas Vitaud for the label Alpha Classics.”

[HT]

Someone mentioned it on Dutch radio. Never heard Bruch's concerto for 2 pianos before. I like in particular the first movement.

Henk

[Bozo]

Someone mentioned it on Dutch radio. Never heard Bruch's concerto for 2 pianos <before. I like in particular the first movement.

It has been many years for me.Agreed about the first movement, for me Bruckner-ian. For me,2nd mov. Mendelssohn-ian, 3rd Elgar-ian,last Thalberg-ian.Where's Bruch ?

[HT]

Post by Bozo
It has been many years for me.Agreed about the first movement, for me Bruckner-ian. For me,2nd mov. Mendelssohn-ian, 3rd Elgar-ian,last Thalberg-ian.Where's Bruch ?

<g> More fundamental: is there Bruch?

Henk

[Bozo]

A once indefatigable competition participant , Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton plays at this year’s St.Magnus Festival,St.Michael's Cathedral :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00094c3

Scarlatti Sonatas Kk.11,Kk.208 , C minor, A major
Prokofieff Sonatas Nos. 4 and 6 , C minor, A major

Posted for an excellent , too little heard Prokofieff No. 4 ( his 4th PC suffers same fate,IMHO ) , especially first mov. , and notable final mov. of the 6th. Had not heard the 2 Scarlatti,either.

Feel guilty posting here with the new atrocity unfolding in Syria. Here is Trump today per CNN :

“When asked Wednesday about the threat of ISIS prisoners escaping, President Donald Trump claimed that some of the most dangerous ISIS prisoners had been moved, "putting them in other areas where it's secure." He dismissed the overall threat, replying, "Well, they're going to be escaping to Europe."

Trump is a sick maniac. Harder to explain, all the Quisling “ yes” men surrounding him.We have met the enemy and it is us.

[HT]

Prokofiev #4 certainly isn't Klinton's forte.

Henk

[HT]

Post by Bozo
Feel guilty posting here with the new atrocity unfolding in Syria.

No need to. The EU could/should have taken action (it has more to lose than the US) but didn't and won't.

Henk

[Bozo]

A chance to hear the Poulenc Piano Concerto for solo piano, not often heard (? ) :

https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/interpretation/concerto-pour-piano-et-orchestre-en-do-diese-mineur-fp-146

"Maroussia Gentet joue avec l'Orchestre philharmonique de radio France dirigé par Mikko Franck le Concerto pour piano et orchestre en do dièse mineur de Francis Poulenc. Extrait du concert donné le 9 octobre 2019 à l'auditorium de la Maison de la radio. "

[Bozo]

I think I may actually prefer the solo piano PC over the more "famous" 2-piano PC.

The piano here a "Stephen Paulello" piano, my first encounter with that French maker.

[HT]

Post by Bozo
I think I may actually prefer the solo piano PC over the more "famous" 2-piano PC.
The piano here a "Stephen Paulello" piano, my first encounter with that French maker.

I like both equally well but not as much as the organ concerto and Concert Champêtre (preferably the harpsichord version).

The performance sounded too harsh and dry for my taste. Now you mention it, that may have been the Stephen Paulello.

Henk

[Bozo]

Very enjoyable. All of Floristan’s programme are some favs of mine for each composer.


1) Robert Schumann : Sonata No. 1 en fa dièse mineur pour piano, op. 11

Frédéric Chopin : Etude No. 7 en fa dièse mineur, op. 11/7 (bis)

Michele Campanella, piano
---------------
2) Ludwig Van Beethoven : Sonata No. 18 en Mi bémol Majeur, op. 31/3
Maurice Ravel : Sonatine
Manuel de Falla : Fantasía baética

Juan Pérez Floristán, piano

Royal Castle, Warsaw Date not given, may be in the audio.

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2554860

[Bozo]

Lisa Batiashvili, violon - Gautier Capuçon, violoncelle- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Dmitri Shostakovich : Trio à clavier n°1 en do mineur
Maurice Ravel : Trio à clavier en la mineur
Félix Mendelssohn : Trio à clavier n°2 en do mineur, op. 6
Dmitri Shostakovich : Allegro con brio, extrait du Trio à clavier n°2 en mi mineur, op. 67' (bis)

Grand Hall, Musikverein,Vienna, I believe 2018. The Ravel a huge fav of mine. I listened to the Shostakovich No.1 and Ravel only.For me, the Ravel works better on a smaller scale, but this live was an impressive ,extroverted reading.

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2555464

[Bozo]

Poulenc’s marvelous Flute Sonata and Oboe Sonata :

https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/interpretation/sonate-pour-flute-et-piano

https://www.francemusique.fr/concert/interpretation/nocturne-op-40 (Ignore caption error )

[Bozo]

Here is Horowitz " pupil" Byron Janis' Mozart K.488 PC to compare with Horowitz' K.488 with Giulini ( at YT,too ), Janis with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, Carnegie Hall, January 30, 1960. This recording was released on a cd I have, part of a commemorative set of NYPO broadcasts issued by NYPO itself.

From the YT : An interesting quote from Byron Janis: "How did I feel listening to the Mozart Concerto, all these forty years later? I'm pleased with it, I really am. And what I also like is that I was known as a big, virtuoso pianist; yes, for Chopin, but mostly through my recordings of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Liszt. Well, now here's Mozart and, for me, this is a Mozartian performance. People are funny -- they love to identify you with something, and even if you do something else equally well, it's hard for them to accept it. It's exactly like typecasting in the movies, and I hope this recording helps to break that. Actually, I used to play a lot of Mozart and I'd like to record some more, so I'm delighted to have this performance out there."

Here is a link to a profile of Janis and his struggle with arthritis:

[Bozo]

Here is a link to a profile of Janis and his struggle with arthritis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?>v=mVT7f...

Sorry, YT now says arthritis video no longer available. But Janis' K.488 is !

[AB]

Post by Bozo
Denis Matsuev, piano.
Enregistré à Bruxelles, ce 28 septembre 2019, au Studio 4 de Flagey.
Tchaikovsky, Les Saisons, op. 37a
Rachmaninov, des Études-Tableaux, op. 39 : n° 2 & 6
Tchaikovsky, des 18 Pièces pour piano, op. 72 : n° 5 Méditation
Liszt, Sonate pour piano en si mineur, S. 178
Anatoly Liadov - La boite à musique, op. 32
Sibelius - Etude n°2, op. 76
Scriabine - Etude opus 8 nr 12
Grieg - « Dans l'antre du roi de la montagne », extrait de Peer Gynt, op. 23
An astonishing bravura display, and live ?! But….
Perhaps Matsuev believes the method or the medium is the message, a live piano recital not to be akin to a seance ?
https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2550747

listening to the Tchaikovsky.... excellent playing
thanks for pointing this out

AB

[HT]

Post by AB
listening to the Tchaikovsky.... excellent playing
thanks for pointing this out
AB

Seconded!

Henk

[Bozo]

Post by number_six
Thanks for posting!

Here is Shani playing and conducting LvB PC # 4 with Netherlands Radio Orchestra yesterday,another fine performance: https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9274-lahav-shani-s-beethoven

I find I heard him in a Sept., 2018 broadcast playing Mozart K.466,my actual first time,also very fine.

[Frank Berger]

Post by Bozo

Post by number_six
Thanks for posting!

Here is Shani playing and conducting LvB PC # 4 with Netherlands Radio Orchestra yesterday,another fine performance: https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9274-lahav-shani-s-beethoven
I find I heard him in a Sept., 2018 broadcast playing Mozart K.466,my actual first time,also very fine.

He is the music director designate of the Israeli Philharmonic.

[g***@gmail.com]

Post by Bozo
Liszt, Franz
Prelude voor piano S.179, "Präludium nach J.S. Bachs Kantate "Weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen""
Busoni, Ferruccio
Fantasie voor piano K.256, "Fantasia contrappuntistica"
August 13, 2019, Salzburg
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9208-recital-igor-levit
Levit makes the work more attractive for me than does Wolf Harden in his recording I have, but still a tough nut to crack.

If you like Madama B. with Steber, Peerce and Ormandy, their 1948 Hollywood Bowl performance is on Youtube.

[Bozo]

Young violinist Augustin Hadelich plays my fav VC, the Sibelius, at 2019 Salzburg Festival, with Orchestre symphonique de l'ORF under Kerem Hassan , also Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony ( I did not hear ) :

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-du-soir?id=2559532

Hadelich’s 2014 Avie cd of the Sibelius with Lintu / Liverpool got largely rave reviews at Amazon-US. I have not heard the cd. To my ear, there is an austerity,urgency,darkness to the Heifetz/Beecham recording which despite dated sound remains my fav, but Hadelich very fine here.

[Bozo]

Surprised at myself, but today may have been my first hearing of Ravel’s Sonata for Cello and Violin, here the young Amsterdam Piano Trio live Oct.27,2019 at Muziekgebouw :

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9309-amsterdam-piano-trio

From a website:
“Maurice Ravel wrote his Sonata for Violin and Cello in 1922, at nearly the same time that he made his celebrated orchestration of Mussorgsky’s original solo piano version of Pictures at an Exhibition. Though the forces in the Sonata are much smaller than those in Pictures, his orchestration using only two stringed instruments is no less striking and ingenious. The violin and cello alternately play the leading themes and accompany each other almost without pause. Dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy, the Sonata reflects the musical currents sweeping around Europe at the time, including the Hungarian folk-influenced music of Bartók and Kodály, represented by striking dissonances, wild pizzicati, and rhythmic verve. In four movements, the Sonata is one of Ravel’s most large-scale chamber works, rivaling his great String Quartet in scope, and makes the same virtuoso demands upon the performers.”

A tougher listen for me than his String Quartet,Piano Trio,other sonatas, but will try to hear more times now.Very nice slow mov.

[Bozo]

Elizabeth Leonskaya plays Brahms’ PC # 1 with BBCSSO under Dausgaard live at 2019 Salzburg Festival :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009sy8

I did not care for the interpretation or playing, especially in first mov., but you , of course, may, and she has many fans,thus this post.

[Bozo]

Pianist Lukas Vondracek, a youngster I follow, live at the Konzerthaus,Vienna, Nov.24,2017:

Vítezslav Novák - Reminiscences, op. 6
Johannes Brahms - Sonate No. 1 en Do Majeur pour piano, op. 1
- Sonate No. 3 en fa mineur pour piano, op. 5
Robert Schumann - Arabesque, op. 18 (bis)
Bedrich Smetana - Furiant, 2e livre des Danses tchèques (bis)

A lithesome, light-handed,almost whimsical at times, more sunlit reading of the First Sonata, a refreshing change from often more ponderous, “ dark” readings.Third Sonata darker, more dramatic, as expected, but slow mov. not as hushed, reverent, poetic as I’ve heard him play it previously ( and as I prefer in that mov. ).


https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2561826

[Bozo]

Great playing by Vondracek. I wonder why we hear so little from him. This recital is from 2017.

Same wonder here. Latest I could find on YT this recent 2019 live video "Emperor",but only last mov.:

[Frank Berger]

Post by Bozo

Great playing by Vondracek. I wonder why we hear so little from him. This recital is from 2017.

http://youtu.be/hVYFNb4EzNo

Seems like he performs a lot, mostly with mid-tier orchstras/venues, and
hasn't released many commercial recordings (two that I could find).
Maybe he needs new management.

[Al Eisner]

Vítezslav Novák - Reminiscences, op. 6
Johannes Brahms - Sonate No. 1 en Do Majeur pour piano, op. 1
- Sonate No. 3 en fa mineur pour piano, op. 5
Robert Schumann - Arabesque, op. 18 (bis)
Bedrich Smetana - Furiant, 2e livre des Danses tchÚques (bis)
A lithesome, light-handed,almost whimsical at times, more sunlit reading of the First Sonata, a refreshing change from often more ponderous, “ dark” readings.Third Sonata darker, more dramatic, as expected, but slow mov. not as hushed, reverent, poetic as I’ve heard him play it previously ( and as I prefer in that mov. ).
https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2561826

Even though Brahms was a youngster when he wrote #3, would one expect a
youngster today to fully succeed in it? However, Vondracek was already
31 at the time of this concert, so perhaps only a youngster compared
to us. :)

Thanks for the pointer. I'm going to try to listen to this.

[Bozo]

Post by Al Eisner
Even though Brahms was a youngster when he wrote #3, would one expect a
youngster today to fully succeed in it? However, Vondracek was already
31 at the time of this concert, so perhaps only a youngster compared
to us. :)

Brahms' Op.1 his First Piano Sonata; Op.2 his Second Piano Sonata: Op.3 (?); Op.4 the amazing Scherzo for piano;Op.5 the Third Piano Sonata;Op.8 the great First Piano Trio ; Op.9 the Schumann Variations; Op.10 the Four Ballades;Op.15 the First Piano Concerto. Whew !!

[Bozo]

RTBF is a pain, I think because they want to collect demographic data to help their Belgian ads, which does them precious little good for other listeners I’d think (?).

Try this link : https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concert-de-l-apres-midi?id=2561826

You may have to then click on the yellow “ Connectez-vous “ button in the programmer window , then choose,click on Google or Facebook or some other service you choose ( I use Google) to connect through to RTBF,and then enter the link in your browser again, enter, or click on the link again here or at RMCR or use your back button to get to the programme screen again and hit the start arrow there.A pain but worth the effort ; usually.

RTBF may also ask you later or at the time you start finally listening to complete your “ sign-in” or RTBF "account " , but I just click on “Non."