Mozart: Adagio & Fugue; Variations K.360 (Diary 2014-04-05)

Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in C minor, K.546 — Hagen Quartett / Chiaroscuro Quartet;
Mozart: 6 Variations for Piano & Violin on “Au bord d’une fontaine” in G minor, K.360/374b — David Oistrakh, Paul Badura-Skoda / Petra Müllejans, Kristian Bezuidenhout

Alkan: Études dans tous les tons mineurs op.39

Alkan: Études dans tous les tons mineurs op.39 — This includes “Symphony for solo piano” op.39/4-7, “Concerto for solo piano” op.39/8-10, and “Le festin d’Ésope” op.39/12 — interpretations by Jack Gibbons and Marc-André Hamelin; related works on the CDs (also by Alkan) are also discussed briefly, with a glimpse on other interpretations, such as by Yeol Eum Son, Vincenzo Maltempo, and Stephanie McCallum

Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff — Zurich Opera, 2013-12-22

Personal report on the Philharmonic Concert at Zurich Opera, 2013-12-22: Lise de la Salle and Fabio Luisi / Philharmonia Zurich — Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B minor, op.74, “Pathétique”

Yulianna Avdeeva’s Playing: Observations

(…) concert performance reminded me of observations I made earlier on when watching Yulianna play the piano — particularly, I think, with music of the romantic period. It has to do with what Yulianna does with her arm & her body while playing — but to explain this properly, let me first go back to one of my early “piano heroes”, the late Friedrich Gulda…

Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825 – 830

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)

Krufft, Beethoven, Scriabin (Diary 2013-09-30)

Horn and Fortepiano (Beethoven, Krufft, Leidesdorf) — Anneke Scott (natural horn) & Kathryn Cok (fortepiano); Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.3 in F♯ minor, op.23 — Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bernd Glemser, Marc-André Hamelin