Kit Armstrong — Piano Recital, Baden/CH, 2016-02-26
Piano recital Kit Armstrong — Baden/CH, 2016-02-26: Byrd, «Hugh Ashton’s Ground»; Sweelinck, «Mein junges Leben hat ein End’»; Bull, «Walsingham»; Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
All just my personal opinion
Piano recital Kit Armstrong — Baden/CH, 2016-02-26: Byrd, «Hugh Ashton’s Ground»; Sweelinck, «Mein junges Leben hat ein End’»; Bull, «Walsingham»; Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
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
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3, op.30 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Rachmaninoff/Ormandy (1940), Ashkenazy/Previn (1972), Argerich/Chailly (1982), Kocsis/de Waart (1983), Wang/Dudamel (2013)
(…) Yulianna’s playing was excellent! She is very virtuosic and very expressive! Where the tempo permits, she is nearly as clear in the articulation as Steven Hough — but she is way more expressive; unlike Volodos, she follows the score; she is not overpowering the music like Volodos, but has more agility than her Russian colleague (and avoids his unnecessary additions, I should say), she is often almost as fast and eruptive as Cziffra in the virtuosic octave passages, but in general keeps her articulation under control…
A lot could be said about the pros and cons of concerts or live recordings vs. listening to CDs / studio recordings. I remember endless discussions many years ago with friends, around the quality of audio reproduction, stereo equipment, etc. — and I remember one friend who would typically kill any such discussion with the argument “You know, for me, nothing beats a live concert experience!”, at which point it made no sense to carry the discussion any further. However,…
Godowsky (1870 – 1938), The Complete Studies on Chopin’s Etudes — Carlo Grante (2000) / Marc-André Hamelin (1999)