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I had felt the same for the Well Tempered Clavier recordings as well. I expected a "different" interpretation from a great master visiting Bach's solo works quite late in his career.
Just listened to the #fourseasons live after a very long time. What do you genuinely think about it?
Finally, I am at the Musikverein. Listening to a living legend #annesophiemutter
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The last movement of the Italian Concerto is amazing. Please listen to how he plays with the volumes of two hands in the last movement. youtu.be/F6URmdrMHPw
I know it is not right to make such lists, however I can't stop wondering what your favourite 5 solo piano pieces are?
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Her sound is beatiful, isn't it?
Not yet done with #Bach’s Little Preludes! Here’s the lovely E-, BWV938. Listen (even on this basic recording) to how you can vary the sound. Always a bit in every piece of Bach that can be played at a softer dynamic: here it’s the bars lower down towards end of 2nd section.
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This came as a great surprise in the morning, just popped up in new releases. I thought Trevor Pinnock had already recorded these, just found out that this is his first recording of the masterpieces. Very exciting. play.google.com/music/m/B24a…
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Another Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Recording. Here is my first impressions on Igor Levit's set which came out a couple of months ago: xitter.gq/opusnerd/status/119023… I want to ask the same question "Why do we need new recordings?" play.google.com/music/m/B5si…
Here is what I think about these recordings, if any one cares. :) I have listened to each sonata at least 3 times. As far as I know the last 5 sonatas are from a previous release. So Levit has recorded 27 sonatas for this one. music.youtube.com/playlist?l…
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This is not a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know what other classical music nerds think? For me, most of the new recordings (not just this nodyn of works') try to be "interesting", and "different" from past century's great recordings.
This really hit me hard. Goodbye 'Magician'. He was the only conductor I have seen who could produce orchestra sound with his finger tips. classicfm.com/artists/mariss…
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Here is what I think about these recordings, if any one cares. :) I have listened to each sonata at least 3 times. As far as I know the last 5 sonatas are from a previous release. So Levit has recorded 27 sonatas for this one. music.youtube.com/playlist?l…
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When you listen to the last five sonatas which were recorded earlier in his career, you can hear that he is more calculating, taking less risk. With the new ones, I think he took a risk for these recordings to stand out from the crowd.
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I found it fun to listen to them. Would I go back if I wanted to listen to the sonatas? Probably not.