Mining classical music gold.
I’ve been streaming for months now. For some unexplainable reason I’ve been concentrating for the main part on the latest classical releases out there . Quizzically, I have ignored the unlimited access to recorded history that we have in our hands. Heifetz, Horowitz, Reiner, Toscanini, Piatigorsky, Stokowski and countless other twentieth century geniuses are copiously available. I just can’t believe it took me this long to wake up.
I’m writing this for any classical music lovers who, like me, have been blind to the mind-blowing potential afforded us.
Underrated and rarely spoken of Emil Gilels is a genius pianist. Rudolf Serkin is another. @rvpiano check out Gilels Beethoven and Mozart sonatas. Incredible. My go to favorite violinists are Heifetz and Oistrakh. Acoustic Sounds has a few Heifetz recordings on vinyl from their Analog Productions series. Good stuff. |
@mahgister How about Richter? |
Gilels as Richter were pupils of one of my divinities for the piano: Sofronitsky...In fact among the 3 or 4 greatest Russian pianist probably. «
These statements reflect the incredibly high esteem in which both Gilels and Richter held Sofronitsky, who was relatively unknown in the West because he rarely performed outside the Soviet Union after the 1920s»
I am in total admirer of Scriabin...
Sofronitsky is one the rare pianist able to do justice to Scriabin ...Which fact in Russia means everything...
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She studied with Yakov Flier a very great pianist able to play the Chopin mazurka... With Scriabin works my dearest pieces... Flier playing Mazurkas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-oP_9SlhD8&list=PLkY1FuQD7t645ixnhlmAgBGQWQo1IylQR&index=3 The best version ever of the mazurkas which is a kind of dance with some broken rythm,very hard to play as a dance with syncopated rythms is by Antonio Guedes Barbosa... He is not Russian but my God a god in Brazil....Any Brasilian know rythms and he played with a simplicity and sophistication these pieces which are stupendous...Most pianist are not able to deliver the right syncopated rythms with elegance , like a drunken cripple who could suddenly dance wonderfully...A Polish traditional dance Chopin considered his most precious treasures...He worked on them decades... First recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABDgWGVF88&list=PLcuQvsw7Vu7up1i8foXyHBaWiy1B2nt0l There is two Barbosa recordings i prefer the first more natural like a spontaneous improvisation but the second is also extraordinary and on CD: Second one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ML0Avu4DQE&list=PLQopr5raEipfPQXYanmfhTpHhPp9abuNZ&index=2
here Bella Davidovich in Chopin ( she did many concerts with the Borodin quartet but no recordings ) : |
