Your Dream Concert

[rubinsteinmad]

If you could attend a concert where your favorite pianist performed your dream program, what would it be ? Here's mine:

Pianist: Krystian Zimerman
Program: 4 Ballades (Chopin)
---------Intermission-----
4 Scherzi (Chopin)

Pianist: Daniil Trifonov or Evgeny Kissin
Program: I Don't FUUCKING CARE, because Trifonov and Kissin are so good, I'd be willing to listen to any program he  chooses.

[outin]

If you could attend a concert where your favorite pianist performed your dream program,

It would be a dead guy playing whatever he wishes...

[mjames]

If you're choosing Trifonov I'd suggest a program consisting of his own works. His concerto in eb minor got a bunch of raving reviews. I'd LOVE to listen to it. He's got quite a few other shorter-scale works, one of them being the Rachmamania suite, which is also pretty interesting.

[minor9th]

I'm attending Trifonov's Los Angeles recital in February. Here's his program:

BRAHMS: Chaconne in D minor for the Left Hand (After Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin, BWV 1004) (c. 15 minutes)
SCHUBERT: Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894 (c. 38 minutes)
BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35 (Book 1) (c. 13 minutes)

Intermission

RACHMANINOFF: Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (c. 36 minutes)

(I copied it straight from the LA Phil's website, hence the timings.)

Too bad he's not playing the Bach-Busoni Chaconne and both books of the Paganini Variations, but I'm sure it will be sufficiently jaw-dropping as it is!

[ewalker1]

Probably something to do with Richter, Gould, Hamelin or Kissin, playing anything.

I once had a dream that I did a single concert of all the Schubert sonatas, playing the last sonata again as an encore!! Utter nonsense..

[adodd81802]

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[panolof]

If you're choosing Trifonov I'd suggest a program consisting of his own works. His concerto in eb minor got a bunch of raving reviews. I'd LOVE to listen to it. He's got quite a few other shorter-scale works, one of them being the Rachmamania suite, which is also pretty interesting.

Hey adodd81802

Would you by any chance have a link to trifonovs concerto, I can't find it anywhere on youtube and would really like to hear it, even a small section of it.

Pano

[adodd81802]

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[themeandvariation]

I had the ticket, 3rd row at Disney Hall, to hear my dream concert a couple of years ago.. Schiff playing the goldbergs.  I had attended his previous concerts there doing Bach that season.  All shows started at 8.  I arrived at 7:35 to nestle in my seat for the ride of my lifetime… The concert however started at 7:30… (They never start at that time there!) Of course the time was indicated on the ticket… He started at exactly 7:30 and the doors remained locked for the first half of the recital… I ended up watching a big screen by the (noisy)bar, where the stage was project the size of a stamp.. The sound was barely audible… It killed me 

[mjames]

Would you by any chance have a link to trifonovs concerto, I can't find it anywhere on youtube and would really like to hear it, even a small section of it.

Pano

So would i, Pano. Considering the fact that it's a new work, I doubt you'll be able to find a recording for free. Looks like we'll both be eagerly waiting for an official recording by the composer himself. Fingers crossed! 

[briansaddleback]

Don't let your foul mouth suggest a commentary on who you are characteristically. Whether you agree w this surprisingly or just react typically to the critique , I advise practicing a verbal filter as a good piece to your repertoire of self-controlled authority over oneself.

[briansaddleback]

+1

Chopin could play twinkle twinkle for all I care.

Oh yeah I would pay anything to see Debussy live in concert even though he was not very good as a pianist. Reminds me of a story I read (here?) about a young Bartok in Paris asking around where she can meet Debussy , and a fellow who knows him tells her that she wouldn't want to meet him as he will just insult her, in which Bartok exclaims that she still wanted to meet him. Lol

[outin]

+1

Chopin could play twinkle twinkle for all I care.

Not sure I would like to subject poor old Fred to the modern pianos and the demands of the audiences of today... plus all the crap he'd get from the internet afterwards

I was rather thinking of someone from the 20th century...

[mjames]

Oh yeah I would pay anything to see Debussy live in concert even though he was not very good as a pianist. Reminds me of a story I read (here?) about a young Bartok in Paris asking around where she can meet Debussy , and a fellow who knows him tells her that she wouldn't want to meet him as he will just insult her, in which Bartok exclaims that she still wanted to meet him. Lol

His name may have been Bela but I'm most positively sure he was a male.

[adodd81802]

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[briansaddleback]

His name may have been Bela but I'm most positively sure he was a male.

cool. thanks.

[siveron]

I'd love to go to a Ludovici Einaudi concert.

[rubinsteinmad]

Don't let your foul mouth suggest a commentary on who you are characteristically. Whether you agree w this surprisingly or just react typically to the critique , I advise practicing a verbal filter as a good piece to your repertoire of self-controlled authority over oneself.

I'm not sure exactly who you are talking about.

But anyways, you have a very colorful vocabulary.

[lalo57]

Trifonov:
-Any Chopin.
 op 25 / 2 sonata would be great though.

Argerich:
Anything.
-Tchaikovsky first PC, while it's not my favorite it would be so exciting if she plays it. With Dutoit. Let me be.


Ashkenazy:
-Pretty much anything.

Virsaladze:
-Schumann PC / Liszt 1 Mephisto waltz

Schiff:
-Goldberg V

[mwakin21]

Yuja Wang's performance of "La Valse" is one of the greatest performances of any piece I've ever seen. If she ever plays "Gaspard de la Nuit" (I'm sure she will at some point), those two together would make a near-perfect concert for me. Of course, if we're allowing dead performers for consideration, then just about anything performed by Liszt, Chopin, or Rachmaninov would be incredible.