Happy birthday!!!

So this is how Liszt himself played it, right?

She has quick feet

Legendary photo, and while I'm always biased towards Gieseking in this piece, this is an energetic enough performance off it's own merits. I'm not a big fan of the climax, it feels stodgy and waterlogged, but it's certainly better than most.

feinberg.

Why hold the pedal through all ten opening double octaves? Even an advanced piano student knows not to do that. It's very amateurish. Rosenthal was clearly over the hill.

41:32 First fugue of the fourth movement 6' 15 minutes. Much too slow compared with 4'52 minutes [144 Mälzel per crotched prescripted by Beethoven. You should listen to Beveridge Webster, HJ Lim, Laetitia Hahn, Friedrich Gulda Video (1970), Stephan Beus for getting a real Beethoven experience. Sokolow's movements with his arms are too awkward to reach a higher speed. The same in the first and second movement. And the 21 minutes drawling third movement is sleepy boring.

Thx Dreamy.

Unbelievable! The best Ondine?

wow wow only 3rd movement exist?

This music - and its performance - is Out. Of. This. World.

I can barely find any information about this pianist, except for an album introduction on the website of a Russian record company. FYI, he is one of the students of the great Heinrich Neuhaus and a close friend of Vladimir Sofronitsky. He is, of course, famous for his Scriabin interpretations, and there is also a collection of his performances on KZfaq.

I really liked the PC recording of another Clara Schumann pupil, Fanny Davies. I will listen and compare the two as soon as possible! Thanks

wow, didnt know labor was blind

Thanks!

Fantastic upload. Wonderful playing of neglected repertoire. Thanks for sharing!

But this is most certainly not a definitive performance! It is out of control in every sense of the word.

Hell yeah.

12:27, 13:33, 14:21

Well now you know someone who loves this Sonata! In fact it's my favorite of all 9. I'm sure it would be more popular if it had a loud, bombastic finale like 7 and 8. I think it's a masterpiece.

3:39

I know of Jorge Bolet's 1936 Curtis recital (on KZfaq) and of his early Prokofiev #2 recording in 1953, but of his pre-Carnegie Hall career, this is new for me. Many thanks. Also, he recorded Liszt etudes in 1944? Where would I find those?

Thank you for all the treasures you recently posted! I thought I knew quite a few historical recordings but you come up with something I didn't know again & again!

Thank you for sharing this!!!!!

Amazing! Tiegerman is certainly one of the most important historical underrated pianists.

6:13 Is there any better buildup to a cadence in the entire repertoire? Literally sounds like a demon being exorcised

Medtner's most obvious tribute to the work of Liszt - the three-movements-in-one is a Lisztian invention which Medtner himself found great joy in. This is probably unironically my favorite Medtner sonata...many thanks!

no way new op22 recording

No way!

What's not to love. 9 1/2 hours of bliss 🥰🥰

Superlative performance of a rare masterpiece.

An unfamiliar pianist beautifully playing an unfamiliar opera transcription by Liszt - what a treat! Thank you for sharing this with us!

Greatest performance I ever heard even more exciting than the recording with Reiner . The cut in the second movement is different from the 1941 Barbirolli performance. In he did the same as in 1930 Coates recording and the composers own recording while in this performance he did the same as in the Reiner recording and the two Byron Janis recordings . In all his 1978 performances he played the second and third movements complete. Only in the first movement he still cut out two bars at the climax of the cadence. Many pianists did that even Van Cliburn and Jewgenij Mogilewski who were playing the rest of the concerto complete .

Excellent performance!

Very impressive especially considering that she was 85 when this was recorded!

Rudolf Ganz was among the most important advocates of MacDowell's music, alongside other important names such as Constance Keene, Teresa Carreño, Van Cliburn, André Watts, and Leopold Godowsky. Ganz gives MacDowell's Second Sonata (which is a close contender to the semi-famous Second Concerto and the practically-forgotten Fourth Sonata for his best large-scale work) a powerful reading, one that truly brings the work to life in the same fashion that Earl Wild, Jorge Bolet, Egon Petri, and others did for Liszt, whom was MacDowell's grandteacher. (With Joachim Raff serving as the go-between link.) Many thanks for this wonderful post of this composer's work!

Such freshness! I have listened to uncounted recordings of this piece, many of them outstanding (Barenboim, Haskil, Haefner...), and putting on this one is like discovering a new work.

Thank you for posting this. There are few things better in the world than Feinberg playing Bach. I never cease to learn from him.

1:38 is one of Scriabin's best melodies. Feinberg's dynamic change at 1:55 is incredible, the whole mood changes instantly.

#3 by her is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itCgY92HkrndYp8.htmlsi=pmsOG3u8icm73Wwz (1951, sound recording not as good).

I think all of her Schumann recordings are outstanding, especially the C major Fantasy op.17. And I don't think the Sonatas are in any way incomprehensible. Original and imaginative yes, but incomprehensible no.

This is awesome- thank you so much for this.. If you plan on doing others like this, please do Russian nocturnes, Ravel, or Shostakovich- subbed also, great channel.

even timecodes! What a good channel. Subscribe

Fantastic compilation.....really an eye and ear opener ❤

Anyone from the 18th?

Thank you so much!

Extase!

great picture of him

A great contribution to human kind.

Myra Hess was playing in Beethoven's sound universe, I'm convinced.