Crazy Program!

[furtwaengler]

Did anybody hear this?

https://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/konzert/1305849/

I've not even heard of this "Jean-Frédéric Neuberger"...is he any good?

[birba]

At first glance I thought it looked pretty strange, too.  And not very interesting.  Chopin fugue?!  Heller?!  But looking at it again it aroused my interest.  This Barraqué guy sounds interesting.  I had never heard of him.  Also the Heller sounds like fun.  I had never heard of the pianist either and I googled him.  very young and very talented, apparently.

[furtwaengler]

The Barraqué is terrifying. It's developed a certain notoriety - Roger Woodward has a famous recording of it, I think (which Sviatoslav Richter apparently spent some time with). It's an insane horse pill to swallow. I'd say it was too much, but my curiosity is too high; I simple cannot close the door on such things.