I don’t know whether the immensely tedious adolescent fixation da 88zt poztahz haff with da chop has something to with it, but I’ve gone from being very partial to him (as an adolescent) to finding him one of da mozt ovahrated cumpozahz and I’d happily burn all scores of da fucking firzt ballade.
I’ve seen all Chopin, all Liszt, all Messiaen, all Schubert, all Beethoven. I don’t think I’ve seen an all Rachmaninoff though. Most enjoyable for me were all Liszt and all Messiaen. All Beethoven can work surprisingly well, all Schubert I think is a bad idea, unless you include a handful of Liszt song transcriptions.
I guess it depends on how much you like form. I love Chopin, but I dislike how people play him (especially the sort of playing we hear at the Warsaw comp).
Yes, fair enough, I can’t stand the sort of typewriter operator renditions which are commonplace, when the whole ethos of that period in musical history is one of narrative.
I was scared that Debargue was going to do an all Scarlatti next season, since it just had “Scarlatti” as the placeholder, but thankfully he won’t. He’s my least favourite out of the baroque harpsichord masters (Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin and Rameau).
Nicolas Horvath performed the entire Satie output here last year. I think a free concert as part of “nuit blanche”. I watched a bit of the stream, and maybe Satie wasn’t so bad after all. I think I could tolerate a Satie selection on a programme. Just leave aside Schubert and Brahms for a change.