Bournemouth SO/Karabits/Hough from the Colston Hall, Bristol

[Sir Monty Golfear]

Have just found my VHS tape of Hough and Osmo Vänskä with BBCSO playing the work at the 2005 Proms. Seems to have much more attack and decisiveness about it. Glad I kept the tape. However, Krystian Zimerman's performance is still favourite.

Have got hold of the Zimerman cd. It is certainly up there!. Ozawa and the BSO are also on top form. What a shame that Stephen Hough and Litton is let down by average sound quality.

SMG

[Hornspieler]

Have got hold of the Zimerman cd. It is certainly up there!. Ozawa and the BSO are also on top form. What a shame that Stephen Hough and Litton is let down by average sound quality.

SMG

Relevent? Well, perhaps

Difficult to understand what this has to do with a concert by the other (British) BSO in the Colston Hall, Bristol.

HS

[Sir Monty Golfear]

Relevent? Well, perhaps

Difficult to understand what this has to do with a concert by the other (British) BSO in the Colston Hall, Bristol.

HS

I waS just replying to a poster regarding his favourite recorded performance of the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto. Thatbis his benchmark, he was comparing it against Mr Houghs perceived live performance. I think the relevance is that when you referred to Peter Katin , although live against recorded , you may have inadvertently started the comparison. Although live versus recorded in studio is totally different, it surely has some relevance in the context of healthy and interesting conversation about the music.

Cheers,

SMG

[Hornspieler]

I waS just replying to a poster regarding his favourite recorded performance of the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto. Thatbis his benchmark, he was comparing it against Mr Houghs perceived live performance. I think the relevance is that when you referred to Peter Katin , although live against recorded , you may have inadvertently started the comparison. Although live versus recorded in studio is totally different, it surely has some relevance in the context of healthy and interesting conversation about the music.

Cheers,

SMG

Thanks for the clarification, Monty.

You have not yet posted on any other threads. I was looking forward to something from you on the Platform3 "Photography" thread as you are an enthusiastic member of the Lumix Camera Forum.

Best wishes

HS

[Sir Monty Golfear]

Thanks for the clarification, Monty.

You have not yet posted on any other threads. I was looking forward to something from you on the Platform3 "Photography" thread as you are an enthusiastic member of the Lumix Camera Forum.

Best wishes

HS

Yes indeed I am on the Lumix forum! And also take part on the amateur photography forum too ! , photography is also one of my passions. I will have a look at the photography thread.

I have been away with work so have missed a few concerts on radio 3 so need to catch up .

Cheers,

SMG

[RobertLeDiable]

Have just found my VHS tape of Hough and Osmo Vänskä with BBCSO playing the work at the 2005 Proms. Seems to have much more attack and decisiveness about it. Glad I kept the tape. However, Krystian Zimerman's performance is still favourite.

I've come rather late to this discussion. The orchestra at that Prom would have been the BBC SSO, I believe, not the BBC SO.

Rachmaninov's 1st is my favourite among his concertos too. I think the composer's own recording is still the one that most sets my pulse racing, though as I remember Richter's is pretty good. Many years ago, when I were a lad, the concerto was included in one of the sequences of records that the BBC regularly played to the TV test card - I think in the mornings. Having heard it once, I used to switch on our TV almost every Saturday morning in the hope of hearing it, though I had no idea what it was, and every now and then I was rewarded and never tired of it. It wasn't until many years later that I found out what it was. I never knew which recording they used (and in truth, there wouldn't have been many available in the 50s) but the sound I remember was very like Rachmaninov's own recording, though it could conceivably have been Richter's.

I'm slightly surprised anyone thinks it would be appropriate for Mr Katin to comment on a public forum on a recent performance by a professional colleague. I'm sure he's too much of a gentleman to do such a thing.

[Sir Monty Golfear]

I've come rather late to this discussion. The orchestra at that Prom would have been the BBC SSO, I believe, not the BBC SO.

Rachmaninov's 1st is my favourite among his concertos too. I think the composer's own recording is still the one that most sets my pulse racing, though as I remember Richter's is pretty good. Many years ago, when I were a lad, the concerto was included in one of the sequences of records that the BBC regularly played to the TV test card - I think in the mornings. Having heard it once, I used to switch on our TV almost every Saturday morning in the hope of hearing it, though I had no idea what it was, and every now and then I was rewarded and never tired of it. It wasn't until many years later that I found out what it was. I never knew which recording they used (and in truth, there wouldn't have been many available in the 50s) but the sound I remember was very like Rachmaninov's own recording, though it could conceivably have been Richter's.

I'm slightly surprised anyone thinks it would be appropriate for Mr Katin to comment on a public forum on a recent performance by a professional colleague. I'm sure he's too much of a gentleman to do such a thing.

Very interesting that Richter recorded the concerto. Yours is the first reference to it. I agree totally with you about asking one professional to comment on another's performance. It wouldn't be the done thing, unless you were living in the days of Horowitz and company !.
The Naxos recordings of the composer playing his concertos , I find riveting.

Cheers

SMG

[Caliban]

The Naxos recordings of the composer playing his concertos , I find riveting.