Advantages: A discovery unforgettable Disadvantages: Nothing
...(Rewrite on 09/07/2001)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (great italian "virtuoso") spent his life to search a kind of perfection during interpretations.
He knew this perfection to be impossible but, for him, "perfection" was union between composer and player.
Then,this perfection isn't impossible...
Glenn Gould tryed the same sound by his pianos: in this way he was very careful to music structure: beauty of musical phrases, to give a geometrical "presence" to music a.s.o.
Of course his Bach interpretations (but Beethoven and Mozart also), even if on a piano and not on a harpsichord or "fortepiano" , are excellent.
Michelangeli is on the other side of the moon...
His Chopin is mysterious, full of shadows and, in some compositions, unknowable.
But, how does Michelangeli obtain this wonderful result?
To answer it is simple and very...
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Advantages: Sheer luxury of tone and sonority Disadvantages: Can we ever have enough time for such diversity?!
...Chopin from a female hand!
I'd say, if you want just one set of these nocturnes you'll do no better than shop here with this lovely lady!
There are so many ways to interpret Chopin no one pianist will ever get him wired 100% but here is a very good offering from Deutsche.
I previously had a set by Ashkenazy and I way prefer this: less of the thundering concert pianist and more the subtlety of a chamber recital which for me is the style Chopin himself aspired to: he constantly shunned the concert platform and was best at home in Parisian salons.
Still some thunder and lightning here, tho'!
Probe Chopin's inner soul in his most enigmatic, restless, vital, original, diverse dynamic set of works for solo piano.
Super for the student: listen before you learn, and sublime for the classical connoisseur, I think secretly even concert...
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Advantages: Wonderful, lyrical music Disadvantages: if you're not romantic at heart!
...My enthusiasm for Glazunov has been shared with you before, but this is the one I’ve been waiting for. The second concerto is wonderful. Brahms’ 2nd and Chopin’s 2nd seen through the eyes of a Russian Romantic – what more could you want! This music is utterly charming, tuneful and unpretentious – the latter an unusual trait in a concerto – and will improve any day or night, no matter how you feel. The 1st is the longer and well worth hearing, and there is a compilation set of variations from a number of Russian contemporaries that, if not up to the standard of the Diabelli, is none the worse for that. There are very few alternatives for this music and now there is no reason to deny yourself the pleasures that are to be found; you will not be disappointed....
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