Pianophilia

With special regards to stng21:

Enrique GRANADOS
The maiden & the nightingale from Goyescas (excellent fingered edition) Anatoly N. ALEXANDROV
Trois (sic!) Etudes op. 31 Raoul KOCZALSKI (studied as a child with Chopin's pupil Mikuli. Collegues like Arrau did not appreciate his Chopin playing, while his own pupils admired him as the only authentic Chopin exponent. He recorded sufficiently so that we can judge for ourselves.)
Kleine Sonate op. 146 (published privately. Somewhat naive in style but partly quite charming.) all hrs600 (resp. 720!)

alfor wrote:With special regards to stng21:

Enrique GRANADOS
The maiden & the nightingale from Goyescas (excellent fingered edition)

Granados Maiden & Nigtingale cover.pdf

Granados Maiden & Nightingale.pdf

Anatoly N. ALEXANDROV
Trois (sic!) Etudes op. 31

Alexandrov 3 Etudes op.31.pdf

Raoul KOCZALSKI (studied as a child with Chopin's pupil Mikuli. Collegues like Arrau did not appreciate his Chopin playing, while his own pupils admired him as the only authentic Chopin exponent. He recorded sufficiently so that we can judge for ourselves.)
Kleine Sonate op. 146 (published privately. Somewhat naive in style but partly quite charming.)

Koczalski Kleine Sonate op.146.pdf

all hrs600 (resp. 720!)

Wonderful, Alfor! Agreed, wonderful fingering for the Maiden & Nightingale and particularly nice to see even finger substitutions--something rarely seen. And very happy to have the complete Alexandrov Op.31 as only had the 2nd one was in my library. Now that 3rd etude is really difficult with all those leaps but I especially like how he poses the same technical challenges to both hands--not just the right hand.

You mention Arrau. I am reading an interesting book called "Conversations with Arrau" by Joseph Horowitz and contains some very interesting insights (Mikuli is not mentioned), but I have never cared that much for his playing and his Liszt - it just puts me to sleep.

Anyway, lots to enjoy here. Thanks for this and your other postings, Alfor.

fleubis wrote: You mention Arrau. I am reading an interesting book called "Conversations with Arrau" by Joseph Horowitz and contains some very interesting insights (Mikuli is not mentioned), but I have never cared that much for his playing and his Liszt - it just puts me to sleep.

I started listening to his "Waldstein" in 2005 and it has still not finished.

Thal

thalbergmad wrote:

fleubis wrote: You mention Arrau. I am reading an interesting book called "Conversations with Arrau" by Joseph Horowitz and contains some very interesting insights (Mikuli is not mentioned), but I have never cared that much for his playing and his Liszt - it just puts me to sleep.

I started listening to his "Waldstein" in 2005 and it has still not finished.
Thal

And I had thought that I was quite alone in my opinion on Arrau. I have given away the few Arrau CD's that I had.

I can't understand that ! I rate Arrau's playing rather high. Listen to his Brahms D-minor concerto with Haitink.
Yes, it is not too fast. It is very heavy. But great !!

Ferruccio wrote:I can't understand that ! I rate Arrau's playing rather high.

+10 !!
Arrau is one of my favourite never get bored of it...
. as for his notoriously slow tempi. [ compared to modern expectations]. he was aware of them and talked/wrote a lot about it explaining why he was right... and i tend to agree with him ...]

his version of the 32 is my favourite along with Kempf's...and Gilels's 31

JF

Please don't touch Arrau ! He gave wonderful recitals in his late years, and I was very moved listening to him.

http://www.mediafire.com/?whzinlldgtf
or his Chopin Sonata & Fantasy from 1960...

alfor wrote:With special regards to stng21:


Anatoly N. ALEXANDROV
Trois (sic!) Etudes op. 31

Alexandrov 3 Etudes op.31.pdf

Thanks for this !

Cesar FRANCK (a.k.a. "Francki")
Prelude, Fugue et Variation op. 18 (arr. piano by Otto Mortensen) hrs600 Jose BERR
Impression op. 81 (sort of alpine miniature-Requiem) hrs600

...Vladigeroff PC op. 6...

audio:

Waldstein live (I): Conrad Hansen
http://www.mediafire.com/?fixkrpx1zmu2nif