No longer the young sensation, pianist Yuja Wang these days gets Deutsche Grammophon's "The [fill-in-the-city-name] Recital" treatment with several live concert recordings presented as major events, and, indeed, they are. This one was made in Vienna in April of 2022, and it is a remarkable high-wire act in its programming and execution, one that few pianists of the present or past could have duplicated. The usually staid Viennese press reported that the crowd on hand "went wild." One would never know that; Deutsche Grammophon's engineers have stripped out every trace of audience noise, and one wishes for traces of the excitement hearers must have felt as Wang swings from Albéniz to Scriabin to the Russian jazz of Nikolai Kapustin to Beethoven. All that is just in the first half of the show. One can try without success to figure out exactly what makes all this music hang together in Wang's hands; she is certainly one of the few pianists who could successfully follow etudes of Ligeti with one of Glass. The secret seems to lie in the detail she brings to each work. Consider her quick reading of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31, No. 3 ("The Hunt"), in which she turns the opening gesture, usually gentle, into the call of a hunting horn at the beginning of an active outdoor happening. It is the same throughout, and the music works because it is all done sensitively, and it coheres into what the booklet calls "a musical gallery." An impressive outing from Wang, who continues to live up to and even exceed the high expectations she has generated for herself through publicity. Completely unsurprisingly, this release made classical best-seller charts in the spring of 2024. James Manheim Tracklist & Credits :
28.8.24
YUJA WANG - The Vienna Recital : Albéniz · Beethoven · Каpustin · Ligeti · Scriabin (2024) FLAC (image+.cue) lossless
6.4.22
LIADOV • MEDTNER • SCRIABIN • PROKOFIEV • BORODIN • DEBUSSY • GOLTZ • GLAZUNOV • LISZT • CHOPIN - Recordings : 1937-1953 (Vladimir Sofronitsky) (2007) 2CD / APE (image+.cue), lossless
CD1
Anatoly Liadov
1 Prélude in B Minor Op. 11 No. 1 (14. 6.1949)
2 Music Box Op. 32 (14.6.1949)
3 Waltz in E Major Op. 57 No. 3 (15.7.1949)
Nikolai Medtner
4 Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2 (2.7.1947)
Alexander Scriabin
5-6 2 Préludes Op. 27 (28.3.1938)
Fryderyk Chopin
7 Mazurka Op. 41 No. 2 (1937-1941)
8 Waltz Op. 70 No. 1 (5.1941)
9 Etude Op. 10 No. 4 (16.6.1937)
Franz Liszt
10 Concert Etude S145 "Gnomenreigen" (25.6.1937)
Boris Goltz
11 Prélude in E Minor (17.11.1938)
12 Scherzo in E Minor (17.11.1938)
Alexander Borodin
13 Petite Suite (Au couvent, Intermezzo, Mazurka I, Mazurka II Rêverie, Sérénade, Nocturne (12.7.1950)
Dmitri Kabalevsky
14-16 Sonatina in C Major Op. 13 No. 1 (1953)
Sergei Prokofiev
17-20 Four Taies of a Grandmother Op. 31 (2.12.1946)
21 Vision fugitive Op. 22 No. 7 (1953)
22 Sarcasm Op. 22 No. 7 (1953)
CD2
Prokofiev
1-6 6 Pièces for Piano from Op. 12 (1953)
Anatoly Liadov
7-11 Six Preludes
Alexander Glazunov
12 Prelude In D Flat Major Op 49 No 1
13 Prelude & Fugue In A Minor Op 101 No 1
Claude Debussy
14 Prélude: Livre II "Feuilles Mortes"
15 Prélude: Livre II "Canope"
16 Children's Corner: "Serenade Of The Doll"
Alexander Scriabin
17 Piano Sonata No 3 Op 23
Piano – Vladimir Sofronitsky
9.3.22
SCRIABIN : The Complete Works (2015) 18CD Box-Set / APE (image+.cue), lossless
20.1.22
SOLOMON - Icon : The Master Pianist Plays Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Grieg, Schumann, Liszt, Scriabin (2008) 7CD / MONO / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless
Solomon Cutner, known professionally by his first name, was the great English pianist whose severe stroke in 1956 cut short his career in its prime and just at the point where monaural was giving way to stereo sound. With the change in technology, Solomon's discography became instantly dated and, unfortunately, his performances quickly became underrated. This seven-disc set from EMI presents a well-rounded collection of the pianist's finest performances. Even with three of the discs here devoted to Beethoven, the range of Solomon's repertoire is immediately apparent. Here was a pianist who could play Scriabin as well as Mozart and Bliss as well as Brahms. Solomon's technique was adept if not always entirely impeccable, his style was immensely concentrated but wholly objective, and his interpretations were less dramatic and structural than lyrical and sculptural. Some may find his take on Tchaikovsky's concerto too dry-eyed, but few are likely to fault the crystalline clarity of his Mozart or the heroic lucidity of his Beethoven. Even today, Solomon's "Hammerklavier" and "Waldstein" sonatas remain models of transparency and his "Emperor" concerto has a nobility that few others can equal. Though for those unfamiliar with Solomon, seven discs may at first seem a lot, listening to them will likely increase their interest in hearing more from this unjustly neglected master. by James Leonard
CD1 BEETHOVEN
1-3 Piano Concerto Nº5 'Emperor'
4-6 Piano Concerto Nº3
CD2 GRIEG
1-3 Piano Concerto
SCHUMANN
4-6 Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN
7-8 Piano Sonata Nº27
CD3 BEETHOVEN
1-3 Piano Sonata Nº8 'Pathétique'
4-6 Piano Sonata Nº14 'Moonlight'
7-8 Piano Sonata Nº21 'Waldstein'
9-11 Piano Sonata Nº26 'Les Adieux'
CD4 BEETHOVEN
1-3 Piano Sonata Nº23 'Apassionata'
4-7 Piano Sonata N°29 'Hammerklavier'
CD5 BRAHMS
1-4 Piano Concerto Nº2
TCHAIKOVSKY
5-7 Piano Concerto Nº1
CD6 D. SCARLATTI
1 Sonata in F L384
J.S. BACH / BUSONI
2 Cantata BWV140 'Wachet auf'
MOZART
3-5 Piano Sonata Nº11 K331
6-8 Piano Sonata Nº17 K576
9-11 Piano Sonata Nº24 K491
CD7 LISZT
1 Hungarian Fantasia
SCRIABIN
2-4 Piano Concerto
BLISS
7-7 Piano Concerto
Credits :
Soloman - Piano
Conductor – Herbert Menges (pistas: 1-1 to 2-6), Issay Dobrowen (pistas: 5-1 to 5-7, 7-2 to 7-4), Sir Adrian Boult (pistas: 7-5 to 7-7), Walter Susskind (pistas: 6-9 to 6-11)
Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra (pistas: 1-1 to 2-6, 5-1 to 5-7, 6-9 to 7-4), Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (pistas: 7-5 to 7-7)
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SCRIABIN: Roberto Szidon Plays Scriabin 3CD [1968/70/71] FLAC
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