Glad you brought up howard shelley's cycle. It's highly underrated and like you said barely spoken about. His performance of the original unedited piano sonata no2 is required listening for any rachmaninoff fan. He also squeezes all the emotion out of the works without overdoing it OMG! And the Yakov Kasman sonatas are fantastic! They're pretty slow and he loses the thread in places but every note is crystal clear.
Anievas on EMI was my 'imprint' version of the Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - it is indeed a fabulous performance - energetic, poetic and full of fantasy (Variation 17 a mysterious little interlude gives me goose bumps still).
I have that Weissenberg disc, and yes, there's a brutality to the performances that really isn't Rachmaninov. Lugansky has the measure of these pieces.
Hello Dave. Was listening to Ashkenazy playing the sonatas, and it was pretty hard to digest the No. 1, for a first listening. Will try with his other piano pieces. Are those stones from Iceland?. Thanks.
Good morning, Dave, may I ask your opinion re The Bells? I have just one recording in my collection, the one with Svetlanov, recorded in 1979. This is considered by some Gramophone guys as the reference recording for this work, but I wonder whether you suggest another recording to get a broader view on this masterpiece.
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Glad you brought up howard shelley's cycle. It's highly underrated and like you said barely spoken about. His performance of the original unedited piano sonata no2 is required listening for any rachmaninoff fan. He also squeezes all the emotion out of the works without overdoing it
OMG! And the Yakov Kasman sonatas are fantastic! They're pretty slow and he loses the thread in places but every note is crystal clear.
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Anievas on EMI was my 'imprint' version of the Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - it is indeed a fabulous performance - energetic, poetic and full of fantasy (Variation 17 a mysterious little interlude gives me goose bumps still).
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I have that Weissenberg disc, and yes, there's a brutality to the performances that really isn't Rachmaninov. Lugansky has the measure of these pieces.
Hello Dave. Was listening to Ashkenazy playing the sonatas, and it was pretty hard to digest the No. 1, for a first listening. Will try with his other piano pieces. Are those stones from Iceland?. Thanks.
Nope. They are from all over.
Good morning, Dave, may I ask your opinion re The Bells? I have just one recording in my collection, the one with Svetlanov, recorded in 1979. This is considered by some Gramophone guys as the reference recording for this work, but I wonder whether you suggest another recording to get a broader view on this masterpiece.
Please consider the 1962 studio recording with the Moscow Philharmonic and Kondrashin (originally on Melodija...)
@@HugeOB Thank you, I‘ll check that out. Love Kondrashin…
Have a look at "The Bells" Repertoire video in the Rachmaninoff playlist.
@@DavesClassicalGuide Great, will do, thank you!