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[ if i had to pick my favorite cds of classical music this would be one of them ]
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[ if i had to pick my favorite cds of classical music this would be one of them ]
[ music of excellence ]
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Back to normal / De regreso a lo habitual
6 years ago
22 comments:
Thank you for the beautiful Piano music!
My goodness -- this is a long performance of the Sonata! Nearly 42 mins when most clock in at under 30...
Many thanks.
This is a brilliant album like you said. I strongly recommend any classical music enthusiast to listen to this and enjoy!
Thank you very much for this beautiful album...
Regards,
MusicallyInclined.
Yes, listen to the CD (all followed) with headphones. It's brutal :)
Thanks so interesting posts. My interests coincide with your posts. Thank you very much.
Thank you for your effort.
Without people like you many of us could not have access to these treasures.
Dear Fly, Your last 8-10 posts were all CDs I already own (I'm a finished Cheskassky fan)--but this one is new. Afanassiev is a strange pianist. I own several CDs of his, all bought second-hand (and that was before the era of computer extraction, so people sold them because they did not like them). He's interesting, but I cannot say that I really like him. He has original ideas, but his sound is always hard--though this may be due in part to recording conditions. I guess he's an acquired taste. Still trying to acquire it I guess...
I took this, thank you for it, but I find the interpretation a bit brutal. Liszt's B minor is a difficult sonata--for the listener, not just the pianist--and brutal interpretations are not the ones I appreciate best. As a matter of fact, I was unable to like the sonata at all until I heard it by Louis Lortie. He made me discover and appreciate it, and since then I've learned to love other interpretations. Yundi Li's (heard in concert) comes to mind, among others. Also liked Yuja Wang's. Profound interpretations that care about meaning rather than technical show-off (although the technique is there all right, but you forget it). Also heard Garrick Olson's interpretation in concert and was very moved and impressed. He's supposed to record it (perhaps already has). But in contrast, Zimerman's record disappointed (even though he is one of my 5 farourite pianists). Brittle, dry sound that irritates. Argerich ? well, I always love Argerich. I would also very much like to hear Lise de La Salle's new record of this--but the most sensational that I recently heard (and bought) was Khatia Buniatishvili's record. A very remarkable artist.
Thanks again for all your work Fly, it is greatly appreciated.
Tamia, who choses not to log in because of Google's new policy of aggregating data on connected users.
Thank you for Affanasiev, thank you for all the beautifull music posted by you.
Thank you very much for your magnificent posts!
Caro Fly. Muito obrigado. eu gosto de seus discos. Cherkassky, Burmester, Bavouzet... O melhor.
thank you for all the wonderful music you offer to us. Specially HGaydn/Bavouzet and Liszt/Afanassiev, that I do nont know. A hug from Brasil,
rb
So you want comments? You need love? Just because you spend time pirating and stealing other people's work so others can also steal it? People simply comes here to steal. Period. You just make it easier to do it. You may want to feel loved, or fantasize about how people respect you or your taste, or that somehow you own the music you're ripping, but you're deluding yourself. You are just a pawn so hundreds of people steal copyrighted material in the name of "sharing culture" or some bullshit like that. And then, of course, you want to be flattered. And admired. Well, wake up and smell the coffee. Nobody respects you or likes you. You're a parasite used by other parasites. If people couldn't steal records for free in your blog nobody would visit it. Get a dog, or better, stop stealing and try to do something to contribute to save the music you profess to love. And stop whining if nobody leaves comments. You want a comment? Thanks, asshole, thanks for stealing the music so all thieves can profit from it. That's the only real comment.
It's very difficult to see how Liszt himself would play the sonata, and if he would play the same way over time. I doubt it. Afanassiev isn't really a pianist very conventional. When I heard this CD for the first time I was very impressed with his 'brutal drama'. Struck me, that's all. But I enjoy many other versions :) Apart from that version of the Louis Lortie I should add the interpretations of Sviatoslav Richter, Minoru Nojima, Annie Fischer, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini and the latest CD by Marc-Andre Hamelin.
In spite of the un becoming comment, thank you very much
Dear Fly,
thanks for sharing this very interesting recording on Liszt.
I have a special Request for you:
Could you share, please, with us Franz Liszt "Annees de pelerinage" by Lazar Berman? Thanks in advance for your answer.
Keep up the great job here :)
my best regards, Kike.
Have this one, but I love Afanassiev...do you happen to have his Beethoven Sonatas 30 & 31, the Schubert D.960 on ECM or the Mozart Trios on DG with him, Kremer and Kashkashian by any chance?
Thank you!
Yes, I have Franz Liszt "Annees de pelerinage" by Lazar Berman.
I will post them (3 cds) soon... The list is long :)
I think I only have two more CDs of Afanassiev, but none of these. But I have to check...
thank you fly!
I Like the interpretation and the digital sound of denon is brutal!
Please dont wast your time with the little chiken from spain.
His stupid coment means he is an stupid person.
Best Regards
Thanks for checking your Afanassiev collection...also looking for his Well Tempered Clavier if by chance you have that one...
Thanks again!
FANTASTIC post! Great performance and stunning sound quality!
Would you post another Afanassiev CD's from Denon?
A lot of them are Blu-Spec or HDCD...
Don't worry about shit comments, you do a great service for classical music lover.
Thanks for your support and comments. Good to see you comment CDs posted here. Compliments to the blog are always nice but not what interests me most. I liked that visitors comment on the CDs published and indicate alternatives. That would be important to everyone.
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