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  4. Song For Linda, Nelly, Frank and Hans

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Song For Linda, Nelly, Frank and Hans

    Titles like Song for Darnell, Song for Chet, Song for Kathy, Song for Leo, Song for Niels, Song for Gijs and Song for George Bush made me insanely jealous. Why did nobody ever made a tune dedicated to Hans, like Song for Hans .......... and I mean, really dedicated to me, not to one of the million other people who's surname is ............ Hans ( like Hans Andersen), but fully credited to myself? :crazy:

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    Well, I have some great news.! That tune exists: !Song For Linda, Nelly, Frank and Hans. Although I have to share the title with three more people, I'm really part of the tune title. It's a composition from Juan Pablo Carkvenik, an Argentine guitar player. :rofl:

    Song For Linda, Nelly, Frank and Hans

    Keep swinging

    Durium (Hans)

    :w

    Hey, Hans.

    There is a song in this world indeed dedicated solely to YOU.

    Song For Hans

  7. Chopin

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Anyone else here who spares some love for this recording of Nocturnes?

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    As for polonaises- I recently stumble upon LP by Lazar Berman (it's on DG)- the guy who swore never to play Chopin after he didn't qualify for Chopin competition in Warsaw in his youth, yet apparently got coaxed into it by DG honchos. Haven't tried it yet though. I doubt it will be as good as his Liszt, but one never knows.

    But I sure like this reading of Polonaises:

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  8. Chopin

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by Mandrill

    I second Michel Devos's choice of Moravec (check his Debussy & Schumann too).

    Wonder if anyone here has heard these performances, which are also among my favorites:

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  9. FS: LAZAR BERMAN PLAYS LISZT & MORE

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by Mandrill

    For those who interested- selling the following package:

    LAZAR BERMAN PLAYS LISZT- TOTAL OF 7 LP'S:

    All records (vinyl & cover) are in M- condition, unless noted otherwise.

    1. THE LEGENDARY LAZAR BERMAN PLAYS LISZT- SONATA IN B MINOR, VENEZIA E NAPOLI, MEPHISTO WALTZ- COLUMBIA/MELODIYA- M33927, STEREO.

    2. THE LEGENDARY LAZAR BERMAN PLAYS LISZT- THE TWELVE TRANSCENDENTAL ETUDES, HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY #3, SPANISH RHAPSODY- COLUMBIA/MELODIYA- M2-33928, STEREO- 2LP SET W/GATEFOLD COVER

    3. LISZT: PIANO CONCERTOS- LAZAR BERMAN W/VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTOR- CARLOS MARIA GUILINI- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, 2530770, 1976 STEREO

    4. LISZT: ANNEES DE PELERINAGE- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, 2740175, 1977 STEREO- 3 LP BOX SET.

    The cover of the box has splits in the middle of the spine on both sides, otherwise OK.

    $16, INCLUDING SHIPPING

    Also few more rare (even if they don't probably fall into "collectable"

    category) classical records- $6, including shipping:

    MAX REGER- 100.PSALM, NURNBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHOIR, ORGAN: WERNER JACOB- MPS RECORDS (GERMANY)- GATEFOLD COVER.

    Both vinyl & cover are in M- condition.

    LAZAR BERMAN /CLAUDIO ABBADO- RACHMANINOFF #3

    A rare LP of sought after interpretation of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 played by the late great Lazar Berman w/Claudio Abbado conducting London Symphony Orchestra. Released on Columbia Masterworks- XM34540, 1977.

  11. Funny Rat

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    I have the original FMP vinyl and have not found that one as impressive as the stuff with Mangelsdorff, or even Pica-Pica for that matter. Just my $0.02... carry on.

    Baby Sommer is the bomb on Pica Pica!

    I love Baby Sommer - been recently checking out the Berlin album with Cecil and 'Touch the Earth...' with Leo Smith and Kowald. Sommer's fantastic on both IMHO!

    Check out his solo CD- Sachsische Schatulle & his work as a member of Zentrallquartett- all CDs on Intakt Records. :tup:tup:tup

  17. Funny Rat

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Is "Funny Rat, Peter Brotzmann & Shoji Hano" Organissimo's way to say "Free jazz discussion thread"?

    462 pages seems a bit excessive for discussion of this particular album, good as it probably is. :)

  20. Joyce Hatto hoax

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I like "Unimpressed by his mixture of Polish/French and German-Jewish stock, his Soviet interrogator sent him on a train heading East for a labour camp - where he remained from 1945 until 1970."

    That's quite a piece. Whoever wrote it could sure make a living as a pulp fiction hack.

  22. Joyce Hatto hoax

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Jed Distler at classicstoday.com has regularly fallen all over himself with glee at every new Hatto release. There's a "perfect 10" review of her alleged Mozart cycle on top of the page right now. link

    Now I wonder whose Mozart cycle it is. The whole thing is rather bizarre.

  23. Oscar Peterson, Night Train

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Oscar P is a guy whose work gets trashed a lot, and I'm not too familiar with the rest of his work, but this is a very nice trio album w/Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. Very good playing on a good collection of compositions. Oscar's playing is kinda greazy on a few of the songs.

    Guy

    Never understand all the thrashing of OP. OK, he's not an innovator or major trend-setter, but he's one of the most accomplished pianists in jazz & his playing is just plain beautiful, even on his cheesier albums.

    BTW, has anyone got CD of Fiorello/My Fair Lady for sale or trade? I'm looking hard for this one.

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