Sorry, Eric.

did you see there was more barda posted on youtube recently

hey rabidch: ur face

Hiya! Keep the faith in music!:-) Greetings from Poland and happy listening! :-)

Posted that sort of in jest after reading your Carlos quote. As much as I love his interpretations, his father Erich always manages to surprise me with his untraditional tempi and rhythmic energy that have never been bested. Every recording seems to have this boundless sense of spontaneous drama. Tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon filled with sharks and gators.

Erich Kleiber > Carlos Kleiber.

well, it's hard to play steady when you're flying above the keyboard like that

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hey, can you upload the prokofiev samson françois disc? :3

NOT FOR SCHOENBERG OK

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I wasn't, I think I found something though. hopefully last.fm will let me upload it...

I know, I don,t really like it. I want to change picture but I don't really know what for

oh, and here I thought that you didn't really like Pollini!

oh, nice classic

hah. almost done ripping it! on disc 8 now. so far I really like his pastoral sonata in particular

I know, I'm just trying to save my bandwith a bit lol

I think I'm satisfied with one recording of each atm but thanks for the recommendations.

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What's he like?

Boucouwho?

Hearing those other performances have made me re-evaluate my conception of the Stravinsky. I used to think of it as a piece of modernism: pure, cool and beautiful but I'm not so sure that it's just that anymore. After all it's from his early ballets, all of which owe more than their share to Russian romanticism. As such, I think that I'm getting more lenient about accuracy. I especially like the frenzied Weissenberg one and Gilels does a really nice second movement in particular. For Sokolov, the first one of the two you posted I like better than the one I have. It lunges forward yet it almost feels relaxed at the same time, it's never rushed.

And you're absolutely right on both Ravel and Brahms, they're most likely inadequacies on my part due to my unfamiliarity with their idiom and with the different interpretations of their music. I'm certainly not dismissing them entirely (especially not Brahms...), I'll get back to them in due time to see if my opinion on them changes. Wouldn't be the first time that it'd happen either, I went through phases like that with Schoenberg, Schumann and Chopin before. And don't take the rankings that I do in these threads too seriously, they're mostly there to create discussion.

disagreed on Sokolov, I don't think that it's as extraordinary as the Pollini in that he does almost everything in a similar fashion, but without the same chirurgical precision: some of his rhythms sound a bit wayward in comparison. On the other two however, you're right, those are just as fine but they're also slightly different interpretatively (bear dance?! more proeminent left hand in Weissenberg etc.) so comparisons tend to be more treacherous in their cases. I should have used 'surpass' rather than 'match', perhaps.

and imagine, I didn't even try to say anything truly outrageous!

thanks for the Moravec recommendation, I've really fallen in love with his set.

a set of Chopin Nocturnes to contrast with the Novaes, what would you recommend?