In college in Ann Arbor in the seventies I worked at a store called Liberty Music. They aspired to have a copy of every recording currently in print. I don’t know how they succeeded with that but it was certainly an Aladdin’s Cave for all kinds of obscure music.
Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why...
My best for Schumann 4 th
Incredible haunting surreal out of this world Furtwangler whose interpretation had never even be rivaled save by Klemperer mastery second, but really only second... Furtwangler here surpass all maestros and taught a lesson ...Perhaps the greatest musical recording among all his recordings, if not, i dont even know which one is over this one....
i stop listening anything after these two, which give their musical direction the power to reveal Schumann obsessiveness near madness and his way to control it with music healing power over tempest...
is it music? It is more a desesperate victorious act to keep control over oneself by music writing ... It is the way Furt, directed it... A glimpse of hope amidst terrors and in spite of it , as a boat lost on sea between sunrising and sun down and directed as such by these two maestros... Sometimes a whirlwind capture us desesperate and is replaced by a false calm and the sun illuminate the darkness to be replaced by fate returning in the turmoil again and again ...
The suggestive power of this music put Schumann beside Beethoven with his evocative power and Furtwangler and Klemperer knows it , it is not another musical piece, but the radiography of a soul...
Sometimes music is more than just music... Here it is the case...
it is not a leisure nor a mere pleasure more a deep vision, crisis, meditation, a trance ...
Any other maestro direct it only as a beautiful musical piece... It is not...It is a mystery dancing in some living soul and here for us to see not just listen ...
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If the world spiritual had a meaning in music it is now...
Furtwangler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbyEiplksn0
Klemperer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkU8ULGs4aE
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@bdp24 The stairs to the Classical section were next to the Ticketron Kiosk, to the right when you entered the store. And let me tell ya’, everybody hated being ordered to work the Ticketron window. More often than not, the Ticketron Machine would just decide to take it’s own special "I don’ wanna work" break. And when the machine did work, you could guarantee a queue of personally offended customers snarling, "What? No more Stones/Dodgers tickets?????" 🙄 |
A genius of the highest order who taught Russians pianists how to be playing gods... Neuhaus play Scriabin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEK1PctlQgk&list=RDQM4fElvjbZ3zc&index=12 Neuhaus in Chopin nocturne : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhXI36nstfY&list=RDQM4fElvjbZ3zc&index=17 A documentary about Neuhaus : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCfrtFuYAc&list=RDQM4fElvjbZ3zc&index=26 |
I'm pretty sure I saw Nyiregyhazi in performance during the guy's momentary, end-of-life resurrection of his career. It was in L.A., I can't remember exactly where the concert was (The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion?) but I had a truly excellent seat. The audience wasn't large but it was absolutely worshipful. Nyiregyhazi played with a playful, indulgent "why the heck not?" affability. Unfortunately, he only had a glimmer of his once magical chops. In any case, it was a heck of an experience. |
Lucky you were... I am a bit envious,,, Behind the decreasing virtuosity we can listen the powerful expressive tone which almost no pianist i know of , save a Sofronitsky , can produce... The ruins of his playings reveal a deepness that is nowhere to be heard...
For example this : I pick the "evening bells " and the christmast piece to show after the madness of Olbermann valley or Mephisto how touching and exquisitely hypnotizing in his effective tenderness and grace E.Ny. could manifest pure heavenly grace... At least at the same level than Brendel... If not, i will say that E.Ny. play with a suplement of grace in my opinion... Because here E. Ny. is more delicately fluid than even Brendel and the total resulting piece is more integrated as usual with E. Ny. with pulse behind the horizontal melodic line ... With Brendel it is more like many small successive scenes... I had only Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum with Brendel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn9zi8cLAoA The same piece by E. Ny. for the 4 first minute and a few seconds.. but observe that E.Ny. is repeating the complete first section, though it's not written in the score. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0S1KDOC8is After 8 minutes 19sec. : The "evening bells" is in the E. Ny. youtube selection . But i did not have Brendel playing to compare with...
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