da NEW ZIFF BEE record?

Brewtality · June 22, 2009, 12:34am

I’m glad you segued into the Rockets. I’ve been listening to these a lot recently (lugansky and Ovchinnikov), this chick’s rockets are sheeyat. She has such a hollow sound and the interpretation is dreadful. Her head must be packed with sawdust. I haven’t heard Ash would you mind posting them? I like these much more than the preludes, I’m about to learn some probably 33/8 (C# minor), 39/1, 39/5, 39/6.

marcomedina · June 22, 2009, 12:52pm

well i’m not too familiar with the rockets, so my opinion doesn’t really matter, but i liked the way she took a sort of rhapsodic approach to them… But then again, i haven’t heard many recs of there so… EDUCATE ME!!!

And i wasn’t sure if it was just the recording, but it did sound weak tonaly.

simonme20 · June 22, 2009, 1:05pm

I will post Ashkenazys soon. Like many of his Decca recordings, its a shame about the piano sound, but his ideas and execution of the pieces more than make up for it imo

Fake_plastic · June 22, 2009, 3:23pm

IMO iz freakin’ unbeatable in da rocketz.

tiz a shame he didn’t record da whole set

oh and Angelich’s set iz great too.

Brewtality · June 22, 2009, 10:19pm

yeah Richter is gensui but he didn’t record a lot of my favourite ones. I have Angelich somewhere I think, will have to listen to it. He’s one of my fav young(ish) pianists.

SteinwayModelD · June 23, 2009, 4:50am

Actually fo da complete zet bezidez da Lugy, i think da Og-Dong iz prob right up dere (da one chriz pozted b4) though he doez zome weird things here and there