No! I’d love to hear that if you have it at hand.
I’ll post it when I get home. For now, it’s here:
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Recommended recs of the Beethoven Eroica Variations?
I really enjoyed the Richter rec posted a while back, also the Gelber posted recently, and I do love Gould’s perf of it.
It’s such a great work, it even seems a little underplayed given that I’d rather hear it than some of his Sonatas…
I honestly don’t know the work that well so I’ll pass on giving recommendations, but what I can say is that if I had been on hunt for a good rec I would have probed Arrau and Gilels too in addition to those you mention. I thought Gelber’s Orfeo recording was outstanding. I suppose you’re aware our hero Katsaris recorded it alongside his LvB Symphs?
The first one to make a strong impression on me was David Bar-Illan.
Yeah the Finale of the 3rd Symphony is a great companion piece to it, Beethoven was super obsessed with this theme!
For the Eroica I like the big Gs: Gould, Gulda and Gilels.
Kempff’s 1971 rec has the tonal beauty and the grasp of form that Kempff always had, but the fingers aren’t what they were.
The early recording of Lili Kraus - it’s the most satisfying I ever heard. Kraus before WWII was truly magnificent.
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Great recommendations thanks, I’ll explore these.
A work I love that seems to be rather neglected is Brahms’ Op4.
I’ve loved the Katchen rec ever since I bought his Decca set, but I’ve not explored many other recs.
Recommendations?
Zimerman!
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Agree with xsdc, Zimerman is the best for Brahms op. 4. Giltburg told me few years ago that he will play it in the future (as well as Brahms sonatas) but we have to wait for it… That could be good as well.
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I don’t love the Zimerman rec. I prefer Backhaus.
Kovacevich’s rec is also great.
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Arrau
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Rezpec, I’ll check them out if I can find them.
For a while I never liked Chopin’s op46 but after persisting with it, I’ve come to really enjoy it.
Very interesting info about it here, especially that Chopin himself was proud of the work - which is what convinced me to persevere with it despite not initially liking it much and understanding it’s neglect.
Do you guys have favourite recordings of it?
Arrau is the best I’ve heard so far, Mei-Ting Sun is good actually.
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Cool, I don’t really know the piece to be quite honest. I will listen to the Arrau recording to night when I get home from work
It’s such an odd piece… I don’t know it either, but I don’t have good memories of it, which is just about unique with Chopin’s works with an opus number higher than 5. I remember Neuhaus of all people used to play it.
Gosh! I really need to finish Walker’s Chopin bio. I had no clue this was (more than likely) the first movement of his 3rd PC.
Listening to Garrick Ohlsson now, who pounds the piano to splinters with it.
Playing this with such conviction in the Chopcomp really impressed me. Also how refreshing for the jury to hear something like this!
Can someone recommend me a few top performances of Liszt’s Don Juan and Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude? Thanks!