Although they say that it's bad and isn't well-built musically, I find the Fugue in A Minor an intresting try of Chopin to represent Bach's genius in the Fugue style, I loved it so much.
Hi! I just discovered this incredbily beautiful piece via the Takacs Piano Trio's recording and have been desperately looking for the score online! But their version is different from the one in your video. Would you happen to know where I could get the version that Takacs played? I would appreciate any lead, thank you! And thanks for sharing this!!!
To be brief, what most trios seem to play is a somewhat erroneous reading of Leslie Howard’s edition of the piece, from “Liszt Society Publications Vol.11 Complete Music for Piano Trio”, published by The Hardie Press. That edition includes the final revision of the piece (the one in this video), but for some reason, also includes the latter half of the transcription by Edward Lassen as an “alternate ending” -- which Liszt purposely omitted from the final revision. Most trios recorded this piece with the “alternate ending” either because the score was confusing or for extra length I suppose? Anyway, I would suggest it be a better idea to play the final version instead.
love it but then I like Cortot anyway. So much better than most of the Liszt b minor to found here. Some lik eBrendel absolutely unacceptable. OTOH, Yuja Wang from a different universe.
Chopin destroyed a lot of his unpublished and probably unfinished manuscripts during the last months before he died. I understand why he did it, but I wish he hadn't anyway. The "Souvenir de Paganini" is actually inspired by a performance of Paganini in Warsaw in 1829 that Chopin went to (he was 19 yo). Frederic was so impressed by and amazed about the miraculous violinist that he wrote those Variations out of enthusiasm.
Best recording of Liszt ever made:colours shadings style pedal rythm crescendos Power warmness tonal sensitivity!This Is how old Liszt played!No doubt at all!Amen
That crescendo at 13:36, sustained for an entire incredible minute, is the best thing I have heard in pianism for a long time. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful recording.
Magnificent music. Less than magnificent recording. I guess it was Berman, in his unfortunately influential DG recording, who started the fashion of playing nearly every piece from this set too slow, especially "Angelus" and the second threnody. Kocsis fell in the trap, as did Korstick, but both still managed to pull it off better than Berman.
A great antidote to the "too slow" tendency is the recording by Daniel Grimwood, posted (in segments) on RU-vid. Here's the first piece, "Angelus!": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dv4q9R0PfEU.html Also check out the great complete recordings by Bertrand Chamayou and Muza Rubackyte, both posted here on RU-vid.
This recording and other from similar period, show that Cortot not only was a great musician but also a men of astonishing technique. A lot of people think very badly about his technique, because of his very late recordings when he was out of shape. No one can play like him, great pianist and human being!
Not just a great technique but a great pair of balls to take a risky but musically superior approach to the most difficult passages of all of the works he played. The absolute top of his technique is the recordings of Saint-Saëns' 'Etude en forme de valse' it took 99 years for a pianist to dare a similar approach in a recording session with the same piece - Bertrand Chamayou. Cortot in his prime was technically superior to Horowitz, Cziffra, or Rudolf Serkin.
Thank you for sharing and for your explanatory notes. Indeed, the question is what being faithful to the text means. What I always find when listening to old school pianists (no matter what notes they play, and irrespective of how many wrong notes they play), is that they very convincingly are able to convey the music in terms of articulation, structure and content. Wonderful, and a true source of inspiration.
Off-topic but what piece has almost the same melody and chords as 0:05? Only the F is a sixteenth note and comes after a double dot G, down to the Eb then it repeats again.
