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Offline pianobern69

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Favorite recording of Liszt's "Vallee d'Obermann"?
on: March 24, 2022, 10:06:33 PM


Mine has to be Lazar Berman or Horowitz. I also adore Cziffra, but the finale is a bit too rushed with him I feel. This piece is so special and perfectly foreshades the "darker" compositions Liszt wrote in the later stages in his life.
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Re: Favorite recording of Liszt's "Vallee d'Obermann"?
Reply #1 on: March 24, 2022, 11:47:37 PM
The only version I am familiar with is the Lazar Berman recording of Annees de Pelerinage on a 3 CD set that I have recorded 5/1977 on DG label.  I think this is the same recording.  It is outstanding.

On a different note: I grew up listening to a certain Lazar Berman recording of the Liszt 12 transcendental etudes that I listened to about 50 years ago as a teenager on vinyl album.  I much later bought a few Berman recordings of the etudes with hopes of finding the one I grew up with, but none are the version I grew up with.  So there is no version that I totally love. :(  The closest is a recording Berman made in 1963 on a Russian label.  His interpretations changed a lot over the years, at least for the etudes. I am unable to find it on youtube also.  Oh well.  This is the problem listening to just 1 recording over and over as a child.  :(
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Re: Favorite recording of Liszt's "Vallee d'Obermann"?
Reply #2 on: March 25, 2022, 02:43:04 AM
Quote from: frodo1 on March 24, 2022, 11:47:37 PM
On a different note: I grew up listening to a certain Lazar Berman recording of the Liszt 12 transcendental etudes that I listened to about 50 years ago as a teenager on vinyl album.  I much later bought a few Berman recordings of the etudes with hopes of finding the one I grew up with, but none are the version I grew up with.  So there is no version that I totally love. :(  The closest is a recording Berman made in 1963 on a Russian label.  His interpretations changed a lot over the years, at least for the etudes. I am unable to find it on youtube also.  Oh well.  This is the problem listening to just 1 recording over and over as a child.  :(

OMG – I found it!  At long last!!  I haven’t checked for a few years.  I recognize the album cover.  No wonder that the 1963 CD version on Russian label sounds so similar.  It was recorded in the same year as this  - but this one is sooooo much better!!!!.  This was posted on March 19 of this year – 5 days ago.  CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!!

Now I can just imagine Liszt warming up as he plays the Etude #1 This is how I imagine Liszt sounded!!!!   ;D  ;D  :D  :D  :)  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKwPUgKX68

Correction  :-[
Last time I heard Berman 1963 version that I grew up hearing was maybe in 1980 when I threw out my LP's and bought CD's.  I did not listen to the Liszt etudes again until around 2000 when I bought the Arrau version on Phillips.  I listened to this many times even though I was never happy with it.  Around 2015, I bought what I thought was a different 1963 Berman recording on a Russian label along with 3 other Berman versions recorded before and after the 1963.  I liked the 1963 much better than all the others, but I still was not totally happy with it.  As it turns out, the 1963 recording that I bought in 2015 was the same I as what I grew up hearing on vinyl- Columbia/Melodya. OOPS!~  :-X  Why was I so confused?  The 1963 CD is on label that has Russian spelling of Melodya.  Also, I think my brain invented a new version over the 35 years that I did not hear the original (from 1980 to 2015).  Anyway - my ear is now tuned up to the 1963 Berman I have on CD and I enjoy it now as much as I did in the early 1970's.  ;D

Sorry to OP for posting off topic.
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Re: Favorite recording of Liszt's "Vallee d'Obermann"?
Reply #3 on: March 25, 2022, 02:45:20 AM
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Re: Favorite recording of Liszt's "Vallee d'Obermann"?
Reply #4 on: March 25, 2022, 03:18:32 PM
Quote from: frodo1 on March 25, 2022, 02:43:04 AM
OMG – I found it!  At long last!!  I haven’t checked for a few years.  I recognize the album cover.  No wonder that the 1963 CD version on Russian label sounds so similar.  It was recorded in the same year as this  - but this one is sooooo much better!!!!.  This was posted on March 19 of this year – 5 days ago.  CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!!

Now I can just imagine Liszt warming up as he plays the Etude #1 This is how I imagine Liszt sounded!!!!   ;D  ;D  :D  :D  :)  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKwPUgKX68

Mother of God that recording is pretty intense!
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Offline flyusx

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Re: Favorite recording of Liszt's "Vallee d'Obermann"?
Reply #5 on: March 29, 2022, 02:31:15 PM
My favourite Liszt piece ever...a not-so-well-known person named Sergio Gallo. I constitute most of the views from the video.
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