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Piano Board => Performance => Topic started by: immisk on September 21, 2017, 05:03:09 PM
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I've been listening to a lot of Shosty recently, especially his Preludes and Fugues for the piano.
What's y'all's opinion of Shosty? Which pianist do you prefer?
I myself am keen on the latter recording of Tatiana Nikolayeva, but I'd like to broaden my horizons.
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his music is exceedingly well written and there is so much more to him than the P and F, but they are a great place to start and a super important entry in the catalog of repertoire for first half of the 20th century.
My vote for pianist is Viardo. Hands down. My current teacher was a pupil of him for over 10 years and the insights she shares that she learned from him are profound on a level i hadn't experienced before.
Viardo's teacher (one of them) was a pupil of the old gaurd's giant. Heinrich Neuhaus , so Boris Petrushansky would be worth checking out though i haven't taken time to sit down and listen to alot of his recordings, but I would guess it's as safe a bet as any , but yeah check out Viardo, most of the time for various composers, his interpretations will be at the top of the best pile
1 0:00 C Major, Moderato
2 0:57 A Minor, Allegretto
3 1:45 G Major, Andante
4 3:32 E Minor, Moderato
5 5:21 D Major, Allegro vivace
6 5:51 B Minor, Allegretto
7 7:05 A Major, Andante
8 7:53 F# Minor, Allegretto
9 8:51 E Major, Presto
10 9:30 C# Minor, Moderato non troppo
11 11:11 B Major, Allegretto
12 12:05 G# Minor, Allegro non troppo
13 13:13 F# Major, Moderato
14 14:12 E Flat Minor, Adagio
15 16:34 D Flat Major, Allegretto
16 17:26 B Flat Minor, Andantino
17 18:47 A Flat Major, Largo
18 20:21 F Minor, Allegretto
19 21:11 E Flat Major, Andantino
20 22:41 C Minor, Allegretto furioso
21 23:22 E Major, Allegretto poco moderato
22 24:08 G Minor, Adagio
23 26:25 F Major, Moderato
24 27:34 D Minor, Allegretto
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Prelude No.15 is very good ;D
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Sviatoslav Richter for the Preludes & Fugues. He didn't ever record all 24, though to be fair they are uneven in quality anyway. Emil Gilels turns in a very good Sonata No. 2, Op. 61, my favourite Shostakovich piano piece. I haven't heard Tatyana Nikolayeva's recordings in a long time, but they are also pretty solid as I recall. Russian pianists who worked closely with the composer is generally what to look for. Or who are the composer:
That said, Vladimir Ashkenazy's Shostakovich is also surprisingly good, not a composer I would have ordinarily associated him with.
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I really like his Dances of the Dolls suite, short but fun pieces.
I'm also reading Julian Barnes The Noise of Time" which is a Novel based on his life, quite enjoying it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/22/the-noise-of-time-by-julian-barnes-shostakovich-stalin-review
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Or who are the composer:
That said, Vladimir Ashkenazy's Shostakovich is also surprisingly good, not a composer I would have ordinarily associated him with.
This is the kind of thing I was looking for ^_^ I don't know how I missed Shosty himself playing them when I was looking up recordings.
He certainly plays them more quickly than I have been!
Thank you!
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Here's another good one—Shostakovich and his BFF, composer Moisei Weinberg, performing an arrangement of the Symphony No. 10 for piano four hands.