TwoPianists: Goldberg Variations — ETH Zurich, 2015-11-24
Concert review: TwoPianists (Nina Schumann & Luis Magalhães) playing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations BWV 988, arranged for two pianos by Josef Rheinberger and Max Reger
All just my personal opinion
Concert review: TwoPianists (Nina Schumann & Luis Magalhães) playing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations BWV 988, arranged for two pianos by Josef Rheinberger and Max Reger
… while for the past two decades the artist is mostly pictured with an earnest, maybe “Beehovenian” / titanic, somewhat closed facial expression, in the concert (which he presented with a mostly relaxed, yet controlled body language) his face hinted at a wealth of emotions — and his playing struck me as a prime example of the “big Russian Piano School” …
Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825 – 830 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Walter Gieseking (1950), Glenn Gould (1962), Andreas Staier (1993), Gustav Leonhardt (1986), Christophe Rousset (1992)
Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 — Walter Gieseking (1940), Wanda Landowska (1933), Gustav Leonhardt (1965), Andreas Staier (1993), Ton Koopman (1986), Christophe Rousset (1990);
Bach: Partita in B minor, BWV 831, “French Overture” — Walter Gieseking (1950), Glenn Gould (1970), Christophe Rousset (1990), Andreas Staier (1993)
Beethoven, “Eroica”-Variations op.35, Comparing recordings with the following artists: Artur Schnabel (1938), Glenn Gould (1970), Svjatoslav Richter (1970), Emil Gilels (1980), Konstantin Scherbakov (1984), Alfred Brendel (1985), Olli Mustonen (1993), Ronald Brautigam (2010)
Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles, op.126 — Ashkenazy (1984), Brautigam (2010), Brendel (1964 & 1985), Gould (1974), Schnabel (1937); Beethoven: 24 Variations on the Arietta “Venni Amore” by Vincenzo Righini, WoO 65 — Pletnev (1997), Brautigam (2012); Schubert: Symphony in B minor, D.759 (“Unfinished”) / Symphony in C major, D.944 (“Great C major”) — Furtwängler (1952), Harnoncourt (1992), Dausgaard (2006)