BaL 22nd October2011 - Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9.30 a.m.Kenneth Hamilton with a personal recommendation from the available recent recordings of Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor

[I]Available versions:-[/I]


Sergei Edelmann DVD
George-Emmanuel Lazaridis DVD
Michael Korstick
Mikael Holmlund
Peter Katin
Maurizio Pollini
Georges Cziffra
Leif Ove Andsnes
Fazil Say
Van Cliburn
Shura Cherkassky
John Ogdon
Tamás Vásáry
Levente Kende
Boris Giltburg DVD
Ksenia Knorre
Naum Grubert
Mikhail Pletnev
Jeno Jando
Vlado Perlemuter
Leslie Howard
Huseyin Sermet
Stephen Hough
Annie Fischer
John Browning
Alexei Orlowetsky
Simon Barere
Louis Lortie
Terence Judd
Ronald Smith
André Laplante
Sergio Fiorentino
Ivo Pogorelich
Dag Achatz
Sergei Kuznetzov
Mikhail Voskresensky
Yundi Li
Valery Kuleshov
Polina Leschenko
Pedro Burmester
Arnaldo Cohen
Daniel Röhm
Tamás Vásáry
Markus Groh
Oleg Marshev
Géza Anda
Idil Biret
David Wilde
Lazar Berman (1974, 1977)
Anthony Hewitt
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
Minoru Nojima
Sviatoslav Richter 2 versions
Mu Ye Wu
Gábor Farkas
Vahan Mardirossian
Lev Vlassenko
Alfred Cortot
Yuja Wang
François-Frédéric Guy
Yingdi Sun
Kirill Gerstein
Marylin Frascone
Kevin Fitz-Gerald
Lars Vogt
Haiou Zhang
Claudio Arrau (live)
Ben Schoeman
Arnaldo Cohen
Nino Gvetadze
Nelson Goerner
Andrew von Oeyen
Claire-Marie Le Guay
Cyprien Katsaris
Augustin Anievas
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Martha Argerich (2 versions)
Nareh Arhamanyan
Daniel Barenboim
Boris Berezovsky
Lazar Berman
Jorge Bolet (2 versions)
Alfred Brendel (2-3 versions)
Khatia Buniatishvili
Jitka Cechová
Nikolai Demidenko (BaL choice 2005)Dora Deliyska
Peter Donohoe
David Fray
Emil Gilels (3 versions)
Hélène Grimaud
Vladimir Horowitz (3 versions)
Romuald Noll
Mykola Suk
Krystian Zimerman
Paul Lewis
Arthur Rubinstein
Claudius Tanski
Marc-André Hamelin
Garrick Ohlsson
Earl Wild (DVD)
Earl Wild 1977, 1940s

[austin]

And your choice is?

[verismissimo]

Is that your longest Liszt ever, Eine? Amazing.

[amateur51]

Is Sir Cliff's version not available





That's Curzon

[Caliban]

Sir Cliff

Curzon

Liszt

[Alison]

Khatia Buniatishvili's recent live account was pretty stunning.

You always fear the studio CD might not thrill in the same way.

[MrGongGong]

I'd quite like to hear them all simultaneously in a big space with a separate loudspeaker for each

[Panjandrum]

Sir Cliff

Curzon

Liszt

Well that's contributed to the discussion. :doh:

[Caliban]

Well that's contributed to the discussion. :doh:

It's called a light-hearted contribution. Do they have those on your planet?

[Tapiola]

Eine Alpensinfonie,

Thanks for this heads-up. I can hardly contain my excitement

My favourite accounts of this imperishable masterwork are Horowitz's 1930s recording (currently on Naxos) and Richter's live version on Brilliant Classics' Historic Russian Archives.

I got to know this work in my callow youth, my guides being the first Horowitz recording and the masterly analysis by Anthony Hopkins