Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Naughty but nice

Scott thanks - I had you down for either Candide o...

2007-05-29T19:08:00.000+01:00

Scott thanks - I had you down for either Candide or Pandolfo's Bach.

There are many good things on the Glossa label that recorded the Pandolfo, their releases are well worth seeking out.

pliable:...you have five of my six naughty recordi...

2007-05-28T17:52:00.000+01:00

pliable:
...you have five of my six naughty recordings. Forgive me for asking, but which is the odd man out?

Tha Pandolfo Bach ...

OK Hucbald, my article links to a recipe for choco...

2007-05-27T15:54:00.000+01:00

OK Hucbald, my article links to a
recipe for chocolate cake.

Your contribution is the recipe for a Bombay and Tonic.

pliable wrote:"Incidentally Hucbald, I think you w...

2007-05-27T15:00:00.000+01:00

pliable wrote:

"Incidentally Hucbald, I think you wrote your lovely comment after one of your late-night guitar gigs. The Grosse Fugue was written as the finale of the Op. 130 quartet, not Op. 131."

Actually, I had a couple of Bombay and Tonics before that post. That should explain everything. LOL!

OF COURSE the Grosse Fugue goes with Op. 130. We all knew that. ;^)

Right with you on that one Hucbald. I have both th...

2007-05-27T11:23:00.000+01:00

Right with you on that one Hucbald. I have both the original vinyl LP of Op. 131 and the DG CD re-issue which couples it with Lenny's version of the Op. 135 quartet.

Incidentally Hucbald, I think you wrote your lovely comment after one of your late-night guitar gigs. The Grosse Fugue was written as the finale of the Op. 130 quartet, not Op. 131.

One of my very favorite recordings of all time - w...

2007-05-27T09:25:00.000+01:00

One of my very favorite recordings of all time - wrong on too many levels to even begin a census of - is Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic... OK, just the strings of the mighty Philharmonic, in a performance of Beethoven's Op. 131 string quartet (DG 419 439-2).

Sadly, my only complaint about this travesty is that the Grosse Fugue wasn't played as the finale, as B. originally intended.

I should probably be shot.

Well posted Scott, the Wilhelm Kempff Bach transcr...

2007-05-26T20:26:00.000+01:00

Well posted Scott, the Wilhelm Kempff Bach transcriptions are wonderful, as is his Gluck - see this link.

Shouldn't we also add Dinu Lipatti's Bach? - particularly him playing Myra Hess' transcription of Jesu bleibet meine Freude, -see this link.

And Scott, you say you have five of my six naughty recordings. Forgive me for asking, but which is the odd man out?

The Lipatti plays as I write. Thank you for reminding me of it.

Well, since I have 5 of the recordings you mention...

2007-05-26T20:03:00.000+01:00

Well, since I have 5 of the recordings you mention, I guess I'm allowed to have an opinion.

I'd add HvK's Creation (Wunderlich, Janowitz, Ludwig, F-D, Berry). Also all of the lute song recordings with Pears and Bream. And Kempff playing Bach.

"Authenticity" be damned, there are great things going on with these recordings.