Tag Archives: Chopin

Mozartfest 2021 (2) – a replacement

Eric Lu got stranded in the USA by travel restrictions and was replaced by the recent Leeds winner Alim Beisembayev. His programme began with Mozart’s sonata in D K311 and two of Ravel’s Miroirs, but became more heavyweight in the … Continue reading

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Not for dancing

We didn’t get to very much in this year’s Bath Festival, though the programme was good. In fact apart from ‘Party in the City’ and the Kingswood gig in Green Park Station, it amounted to me going to a couple … Continue reading

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My 13

The new Op13 music shop in Bristol has some posters inside, each showing 13 composers chosen by local musicians, some known personally to me. I couldn’t see them without thinking of what my own list would be and have used … Continue reading

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LPs batch 29: Vivaldi

The baroque repertoire wasn’t represented strongly in our LPs, but we did have two discs of Vivaldi’s concertos L’estro armonico.  (These proved rather tricky to put on CD because they turned out to have persistent clicks).  The very last of … Continue reading

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LPs batch 28: Chopin and other duplicates

This batch contained four miscellaneous Chopin discs: Pollini playing Etudes and Preludes, and two of Nikita Magaloff playing the Polonaises. Quite a bit of duplication because we both had significant Chopin collections. Another duplicate was Zimerman’s Schumann/Grieg concertos with Karajan … Continue reading

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a family concert with the Classic Buskers

When I lived in Cambridge I sang with the ‘Cambridge Chamber Group’, conducted by Ian Moore. Ian has for some time been one half of the Classic Buskers, travelling the world with an accordion as accompanist to Michael Copley’s variety … Continue reading

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Chopin concertos

Last Thursday I went to the last of the Bath Phil’s ‘Summer Classics’ season at Bath Abbey. The programme had been changed (as with the last Bath Phil concert I went to) with Lutoslawski and Gorecki disappearing in favour of … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 17 – carols and folk poetry

Half of this batch was the rest of the 9-CD Arrau/Chopin box. After the great wodge of Chopin I moved on to Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (as he then was) playing Beethoven’s third piano concerto with Colin Davis and the BBC … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 16 – Chopin on election night

This batch began with Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony with Rattle and the Philharmonia. It was now election night and I interspersed checking on the progress of the election results with recording the single largest item in our LP collection: a nine-LP … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 12 – the latest and longest?

I topped and tailed this with some Shostakovich. Firstly, a favourite of mine, a little out of favour at the moment: the Leningrad Symphony, here performed by the Czech Philharmonic under Neumann and paired with the 9th Symphony. At the … Continue reading

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