Melnikov needs to get over this period instrument phase. I’m sorry but the period pianos in his Archduke Trio and Schumann Concerto recordings do not add anything to the enjoyment of the works. It just sounds different and by different I mean worse. Sorry for the rant!
His new recording of Prokofiev’s Sonatas are very good if not groundbreaking.
oh man Derzhavina has a new CD out playing Stanchinsky. How awesome is this woman
https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8270145–stanchinsky-piano-works
Looks like some of the pieces were recorded way back in 2004/5
Who da fook is that composah?
haha he’s a pretty awesome dude, got a rather dark & tragic vibe. I recommend this MOFO
I suspect Derzhavina’s recordings will be the best on the market by a wide margin.
Oh, of that I have no doubt. Will have to have a listen to this Stanchinky fella.
composer last words
http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/composers-last-words
I read the LvB one and initially was somehow moved…until I read the caption that it was in reference to a case of wine that hadn’t arrived yet. Typical Ludwig Van.
…“Chopin’s final words, as he listened to Mozart’s Requiem.”
Cool, I use headphones in bed too.
Tomorrow a broadcast of Polina Leschenko playing the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata with Nicolas Alstaedt. I assume the Glass etudes will be played by this guy with the cool name - Vikingur Ólafsson
Sergei Babayan made a new website. Useful for tour dates.
Good stuff, not performing here unfortunately.
I’m thinking of uploading Bashkirov’s Montevideo '66 recital for his birthday tomorrow but god the piano sounds horrible and he mangles the last page of the Prokofiev 8th sonata, right hand just (*&^%$£@!~. Not sure I should do it actually, maybe not the best thing to share. Rest of it is pretty interesting though. Damn, life choices.
Best one to upload is the masterclass where he’s absolutely tearing into a girl playing chopin op 9/3 then trips and falls over. 
haha 
someone beat us to the punch:
dude has brought up an entire generation of leading pianists yet suffers this as the foremost public memory of him. lmfao
Incidentally when was the last time a soloist didn’t give an encore after a concerto performance?
Like David Hemmings’ character sneered in Antonioni’s Blow-Up: ‘I’m sick of all these bloody bitches.’
It’s like the Dutch standing-o — if you give it to everyone, it has no value.
Damn all this soloist generosity has put me in a foul mood.
reading it won’t do the awkward delivery justice
I don’t think I’ve attended a performance (whether concerto or recital) where there wasn’t at least one encore.
I think the same for me in recitals, but the concerto thing is new for me. The times it happened in London in the Noughties were exceptions and infrequent. Now it seems there’s an encore after every concerto performance. Calling it nonsense would just make me seem like a curmudgeon 
but let’s be frank, most concerto performances are not exceptional
