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some hard blows these days ... haven't heard much of his music, but enjoyed what litte I've heard. r.i.p.
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Is that from the same night that was broadcast on France Musique? No idea which broadcast you talking about. Half of 'Time Set' was recorded in New York. The other half was recorded in Paris on April 5 and May 24, 2006. Hm, I thought there was a more recent Paris broadcast, but turns out the one I meant dates fro 2002. Info (but no music) still on my blog: http://ubu-space.blogspot.ch/2010/04/lenny-popkin-paris-2002.html I also found there's an "Open Jazz" show on France Musique from September that can still be streamed for nearly a month: http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/open-jazz/emission.php?e_id=65000050&d_id=515002548 Guess I got to grab me a copy of that new disc!
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which shouldn't necessarily be considered a good thing, I guess.
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Is that from the same night that was broadcast on France Musique?
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Gave a first listen to the EMI 2CD-set compiling Ogdon's Scriabin recordings (rec. June 1971) - most impressive! Not sure if it's the Scriabin I'll want to hear most often (that might, indeed, be Sofronitsky's), but Ogdon is great in these pieces, running the gamut from his oft-cited highly dynamic and intense playing to soft and lyrical - he's really got it down, I think! My first impression of the 3CD set compiling his Rachmaninov is similarly positive, btw - and both of these are not or only partially included in the ICON (which I definitely want to get rather sooner than later now).
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Yes, the 9CD is mostly wonderful! Some fine Chopin, Beethoven's "Pastorale", pieces by Borodin, some Liszt (from "Les années de pèlerinage", and transcriptions of Schubert lieder), Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov (bits from the études-tableaux), then some Schubert (the Wanderer fantasy, sonata D 784, D 960 and some more), Schumann's "Carnaval" ... that's about it. The two discs each of Scriabin and Chopin make it a worthwhile acquisition for sure!
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Solomon ... I love his late ones, but I think the few additional middle ones (Pathétique, Moonlight, Waldstein, Appassionata, Les Adieux) are enough at this time. Not sure I really need to update Schnabel, as I found no fault in the EMI box and find it easily the best Beethoven I've heard, so I guess for the time being I'm fine with the EMI box. Gilels, to me, is rather different ... he's got a wonderful tone, but somehow I hear him as kind of pointillistic if that makes sense. Not that much attention to shapes, lines, longer stretches of thought. Don't get me wrong, I've liked much of what I heard (i.e. the trio with Kogan and Rostropovich playing Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Haydn, and - with Barshai - the Fauré quartet, also his third Rachmaninov and both Beethoven cycles) - but somehow he's still not a favourite.
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Fischer, Annie or Edwin? Don't know either yet. No Gould for you, Chuck? I'm not sure if I'd have him or Kempff as #2 ... or Gulda's Amadeo cycle, which I've yet to explore more thoroughly (I've only given it one spin this week and found it fantastic). Also, what are the general impressions of Gilels' Beethoven? I've got his fifties and sixties concerto cycles (in the ICON box), but for solo, there's just the variations (again in the ICON). Should I seek some of his sonata recordings? The whole package or rather some select discs/sonatas, and if so, which ones? But Schnabel is *it*! That guy is just plain amazing. Missed notes? Damn, who cares, he is making music of the hightest order. First degree, all the way! (Same goes for his Mozart - I don't think I've heard much that is up there ... Rubinstein with Krips doing K 491, Lipatti with K 467, Gieseking maybe with K 491 and K 488, Weissenberg with K 467 - that's it - but Schnabel is on equal heights in all of those and a few others - but obviously I've got lots left to explore.)
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Impulse 50 Box Set finally coming out
king ubu replied to mjzee's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
previous thread: previous locked thread: anyone knows yet if content will be the same as previously listed in those threads? -
Only ones that look like radios but have been emptied out to hide Mittensteins Romneyisms inside
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This hit my doormat yesterday. All adding up to a great set thus far. This one, yes? http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4770132 any more opinions?
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The Gulda (Amadeo 1967) is the most recent of a few great Beethoven cycles I've been playing since I got started in classical music early in June. The Kempff early fifties mono (I posted about buying it in this thread, never really played much of it until this year) was another - but I think my top favorite is Schnabel (I've got the EMI box, sound didn't bother me). Gould I found most enjoyable, too (not quite complete though), and also Solomon with the late sonatas (a little less so with some middle ones included in his ICON box). From Arrau, I have what's in his ICON again, and some of it was fine, I thought, but I found his Liszt better, and Mozart sonatas mo' better than his Liszt (though I do love Gould's Mozart sonatas, too - totally different, but wonderful). Rubinstein's Beethoven is kind of weird. His mid fifties and early sixties recordings are the best (speaking only of his few Beethoven sonatas recordings), but they're not quite up there with Schnabel, Gould, Gulda, Kempff, I think. Horowitz is pretty weak I found, but the few by Gieseking I've heard so far are again most wonderful. A lifetime of enjoyment? I guess so! It only started a few months ago and Beethoven (violin sonatas first, then piano sonatas, piano trios, string trios, the violin concerto a few other thigns) was played most often by a big margin in the first two months.
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Anita O'Day Joe Daley Keira Knightley
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Happy Birthday!
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I never got around to dig his playing too much - but still, this is very sad news.
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and also currently available on a Storyville 2CD set (paired with the worthwhile "Miscellaneous Miles" disc, previiously on Jazz Unlimited, which holds the entire famous Newport "comeback" set, the two live cuts with Bobby Jaspar and some more bits and pieces): http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.aspx?tabID=2633&productId=27307&state_2838=2 can't find it on amazon but it's certainly there...
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I fully understand that brownie! Still, I wish there were a market for books like that!
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I heard that Girolamo LaRocca's great grand uncles (seven of them) had a great jass band in Sicily in the 1860s
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love Wynton Kelly indeed, but have no idea if it's his birthday ...
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Looking for Haydn keyboard sonatas recommendations
king ubu replied to J.A.W.'s topic in Classical Discussion
Guess this one would make a good CD for testing then: Btw, no one asked about that here, but: I love Gould's six late Haydn sonatas very much! -
"man shoots son at car."
king ubu replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
well, it had it because the man shot him at it - simple! -
Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?
king ubu replied to Cliff Englewood's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
it's been ages, but this music has stuck to my mind for over ten years now and I still love it! -
What Things Will You Not Like In Your Jazz?
king ubu replied to JSngry's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Non-English speaking vocalists singing in English (especially Brazilians). Sing in your own language. I like the mystery of being clueless about what you are saying. Even if they're making fun of all the stiff upper lips in the audience? -
What Things Will You Not Like In Your Jazz?
king ubu replied to JSngry's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
But we're all luddites, aren't we? I thought, btw, for a long time, that word was a derivation of the Latin verb "ludere" (to play)