Perahia plays Chopin

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I just listened to a great LP of Murray Perahia playing
Chopin's sonatas #2 and #3 on a 1974 CBS Columbia LP..
I should say at this point that like many of my contemporaries in
Poland I was absorbing Chopin together with my school work. The yearly
Chopin competition in Warsaw was as passionately discussed as the
football results in US. Rubinstein was and is probably the standard to
measure up to.

The sound on this LP is not absolutely outstanding but it is very
adequate, And Perahia proves (to me) once again that he tackles better
whatever he attempts than 90% of the competition.
Ludovic Mirabel

[Bill Riel]

In article om>,
says...
> I just listened to a great LP of Murray Perahia playing
> Chopin's sonatas #2 and #3 on a 1974 CBS Columbia LP..
> I should say at this point that like many of my contemporaries in
> Poland I was absorbing Chopin together with my school work. The yearly
> Chopin competition in Warsaw was as passionately discussed as the
> football results in US. Rubinstein was and is probably the standard to
> measure up to.
>
> The sound on this LP is not absolutely outstanding but it is very
> adequate, And Perahia proves (to me) once again that he tackles better
> whatever he attempts than 90% of the competition.
> Ludovic Mirabel

Thanks for the recommendation - and thank-you for an on-topic post! I
have embarassingly little in the way of classical recordings and I need
to address that. My attention has been more on Jazz and Blues lately,
but I've always loved Chopin.

Some of his compositions were among the first music I was exposed to -
when I was quite young my family purchased a piano as a sort of family
Christmas present, and my mom played quite a bit of classical music on
it. She was no concert pianist, but still I'll never forget the beauty
of the music she played.

--
Bill

[Jenn]

In article om>,
" > wrote:

> I just listened to a great LP of Murray Perahia playing
> Chopin's sonatas #2 and #3 on a 1974 CBS Columbia LP..
> I should say at this point that like many of my contemporaries in
> Poland I was absorbing Chopin together with my school work. The yearly
> Chopin competition in Warsaw was as passionately discussed as the
> football results in US. Rubinstein was and is probably the standard to
> measure up to.
>
> The sound on this LP is not absolutely outstanding but it is very
> adequate, And Perahia proves (to me) once again that he tackles better
> whatever he attempts than 90% of the competition.
> Ludovic Mirabel

I'm very fond of Perahia's playing.

[MiNe 109]

In article

om>,
Jenn > wrote:

> In article om>,
> " > wrote:
>
> > I just listened to a great LP of Murray Perahia playing
> > Chopin's sonatas #2 and #3 on a 1974 CBS Columbia LP..
> > I should say at this point that like many of my contemporaries in
> > Poland I was absorbing Chopin together with my school work. The yearly
> > Chopin competition in Warsaw was as passionately discussed as the
> > football results in US. Rubinstein was and is probably the standard to
> > measure up to.
> >
> > The sound on this LP is not absolutely outstanding but it is very
> > adequate, And Perahia proves (to me) once again that he tackles better
> > whatever he attempts than 90% of the competition.
> > Ludovic Mirabel
>
> I'm very fond of Perahia's playing.

I heard him give some useful career advice to collegiate pianists during
a masterclass: if you're eighteen and don't already have an
international career, you won't have one in the future.

Twenty years later, I would shorten that statement to include all ages.

Stephen

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Bill Riel wrote:
> In article om>,
> says...
> > I just listened to a great LP of Murray Perahia playing
> > Chopin's sonatas #2 and #3 on a 1974 CBS Columbia LP..
> > I should say at this point that like many of my contemporaries in
> > Poland I was absorbing Chopin together with my school work. The yearly
> > Chopin competition in Warsaw was as passionately discussed as the
> > football results in US. Rubinstein was and is probably the standard to
> > measure up to.
> >
> > The sound on this LP is not absolutely outstanding but it is very
> > adequate, And Perahia proves (to me) once again that he tackles better
> > whatever he attempts than 90% of the competition.
> > Ludovic Mirabel
>
> Thanks for the recommendation - and thank-you for an on-topic post! I
> have embarassingly little in the way of classical recordings and I need
> to address that. My attention has been more on Jazz and Blues lately,
> but I've always loved Chopin.
>
> Some of his compositions were among the first music I was exposed to -
> when I was quite young my family purchased a piano as a sort of family
> Christmas present, and my mom played quite a bit of classical music on
> it. She was no concert pianist, but still I'll never forget the beauty
> of the music she played.
>
> --
> Bill

My thanks to you, Jenn and MINE. A ray of hope that what was intended
to be an audio forum will again become it instead of the endless
egoboosting OTs.
Ludovic Mirabel