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Topic: Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...  (Read 2146 times)

Offline elephant

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Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...
on: November 19, 2004, 09:07:31 PM
Well, first mvmt clocks 11:03, the second is 20:46, third is 13:33 and the fourth is 2:51.

The recording is probably a few years old, judging by the sound quality, but I really like the performance.

Offline xvimbi

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Re: Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...
Reply #1 on: November 19, 2004, 09:17:33 PM
Hmmm, that somehow doesn't make sense. The times should be roughly 12, 2-3, 17-20, and 12-13 minutes. Maybe, the 2 and 3. movements got lumped together, and your last 2:51 is applause  :o That would be a great performance indeed!

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Re: Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...
Reply #2 on: November 19, 2004, 11:20:15 PM
That was humiliating :-\

I´ve just discovered the shuffle function of my iPod, not a big success with Piano Sonatas...

Anyway, trying again:

First: 11:03.
Second: 2:51.
Third: 20:46.
Fourth: 13:33.

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Re: Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...
Reply #3 on: November 20, 2004, 04:18:28 PM
it's for sure not kempff, because he didn't play the repetition in the first movement and finishes in 8 minutes :o
Kempff+Brendel= GOD

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Re: Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...
Reply #4 on: November 20, 2004, 06:58:14 PM
I found out, it´s Gould.
I should have known... I heard the singing, but I only know Goulds Bach.

Anyway, it´s much better than Kempffs Hammerklavier ;)

Offline joell12068

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Re: Please help identify this hammerklavier recording...
Reply #5 on: November 22, 2004, 07:28:04 PM
20:46 for the slow movement?  That's got to be one of the slowest on record.
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