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HuecoRat
Trad climber
NJ
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You guys have to check out the Berlin Philharmonic's "Digital Concert Hall." Their website is truly amazing. For about $13 you get a 48 hour pass that allows you to watch anby concert from over 140 in the archive. You can search by composer, conductor, soloist, etc. The quality is outstanding and the video editing is terrific (not like PBS where you hear an oboe solo but watch the timpanist counting rests). Of special note are last year's performance of Mahler 3, and Radek Baborak playing the Gliere concerto. Check it out! www.digitalconcerthall.com
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I am very lucky to have the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra nearby. They are truly world-class symphony musicians. It takes us only a two hours to drive to Heinz Symphony Hall. We have been getting season tickets for the past 5 years - 8th row, dead center, in the orchestra section.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Gary, I wish I had more to contribute (or better ways to contribute), but my analog to digital apparatus is malfunctioning. I especially appreciated that Richter/Haydn. I think the Haydn piano sonatas deserve much more attention. Horowitz was one of the few "big name" pianists who included a lot of Haydn's solo piano music in his concerts.
My personal favorite recording is of Horowitz playing the E major (Hob. XVI: 52) from a 1951 Carnegie Hall recital. I have it on a 1979 RCA Red Seal recording with his marvelous rendition of "Pictures at an Exhibition."
I have the Mussorgsky music for piano, but the Horowitz version is so much more pianistic and expressive. At least that's my story about why my playing of "Pictures" doesn't sound so hot, and I'm sticking to it.
As luck would have it, I was playing the piano as a substitute for our organist in church last Sunday, and played the first movement of Haydn's C Major Sonata (Hob. XVI: 50) as a prelude to the worship service. I was actually thinking of you because I played the Prelude & Fugue No. 6 from Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier for an offeratory, and the Gigue from the English Suite No. 5 as a postlude. My wife and daughter didn't like the offeratory, though, because they thought an offeratory should be more sedate. Personally, I see no reason why offeratories should be soporific. What's wrong with lively praise to God?
Anyway, thanks to all of you for posting up.
John
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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John, I've got to get to your church! What can be wrong with Bach in church? My first piano teacher was a very religious girl, and she was Bach obsessed, mostly due to Bach's piety. I've started too late to ever be able to play anything from the WTC, except the Prelude in C Major. You are fortunate to have had the chance to learn, and wise to have taken that chance and go with it.
I'm just learning about Haydn, and I like him more and more. This sounds like a lot of fun to play:
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OK, back to my own piano work.
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Aug 24, 2012 - 04:12pm PT
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and more old school! I remember being in awe when those recordings were discovered 20 or so years ago
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 24, 2012 - 04:22pm PT
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RIP Ruggiero Ricci
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