Re: GG Lars Vogt plays GG's cadenzas for Beethoven

[Neil Tingley <neil@music.demon.co.uk>]

In message <UPMAIL04.199610162156160558@msn.com>, Junichi Miyazawa
<Junichi_Miyazawa@msn.com> writes
>new disc (recommendation):
>
>Beethoven: Piano concertos Nos 1 & 2
>Lars Vogt, piano
>City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
>Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
>( EMI Classics 7243 5 56266 2 2 )
>
>The package contains two CDs:
>One for the two concertos played with 
>"ordinary" cadenzas by the composer;
>the other one, a bonus CD, for another performance of
>No.1, with the cadenzas written by GG (1954).
>
>I suppose this is the second recording of GG's
>brilliant cadenzas, the first of which is made by GG himself.

The cadenza is worth the disc alone ! It's such fun.

>Lars Vogt is the second winner of the 1990 Leeds Int'l
>Piano Competition, who played at the GG Festival in
>Groningen in 1992.
>
Now that's interesting. I first heard Lars talking about GG on a BBC
programme where he asked for the 5th symphonia to be played. From there
he discussed his love of GG's work.

I chatted to him quite a bit at the GG Festival too - he was there for
quite a while with his wife Tatiana Komorova (who's father is/was prof.
music at Moscow Conservatoire).

I must go and look for this perf. - has it just been released.

About a year ago I heard a perf. of the Beet 2nd concerto. No idea
initially who the pianists was, but gradually it dawned on me that there
was more that a little Gouldian influence at work - and it was lars ! I
think I've still got a recording of it somewhere.

Neil
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