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Great but immensely muffled, no sound unless one turns up the volume to near max...Needs reposting.

Please, would you tell me where this picture comes from? Thanks a lot.

I have this too - my mother bought it for me way back. Playing it now - thanks for the reminder! I'm mystified by the Steinway K22 - it's not a serial number and their Model K is now an upright. Surely this was a model D.

I agree. The tempo marking is “allegretto alla barbaresca.” Every other recording of this I have heard altered this to “lickety-splittums.” One supposes that it’s alarming difficulty makes every hotshot pianist want to show off that he can play it as fast as is possible. It ruins the piece. Anyone examining the score should notice the polonaise dance rhythm - this alone should pull back the tempo. Ronald Smith nailed this indeed. Nd why should I be impressed by anyone being able to play this s fast as possible? I have read through it - yikes! In my opinion, it really isn’t any easier when played at the appropriate speed.

Pity about the distortion, but this recording again (cf. Copeland's and Debussy's own) shows clearly the tempo relationships the composer intended, so why do so many of today's pianists (including Zimerman!) get them so wrong? Thanks for posting.

Wowzers

What I find so fascinating is that this recording was released in 1970, a year after Ogdon’s recording of it without cuts. Yet, Smith says in the notes on the LP sleeve “In this recording an attempt has been made to restore what seems essential to the structure as a whole while keeping the movement within manageable bounds. Should it stimulate other to prove that the work may succeed without any cuts it will have served its purpose.” This suggests to me that Smith viewed his efforts as being pioneering and that he was totally unaware of Ogdon’s work and previous recording. Admittedly, Smith could have been first to the studio but second to the market, but I still find it fascinating, considering that they were probably living and recording this piece mere miles from each other!

What is the image? Please and thank you

Legendary

Certainly one of Jean Coulthard's best pieces! Thanks so much for posting.

Thank you for posting. Marsh mentored my teacher at Indiana university.

Etre compositrice dans ce milieu machiste est un exploit 😅 bravo !

Gracias! Tal vez hay grabacion de Rapsodia de Smetana

Many of the passages throughout sound eerily similar to Prokofiev's Concerto #2 also in G Minor...

I've listened to all his albums that exists. It was in none of them unfortunately. But I'm not sure yet. His my GOD and I hope he'd performed it:)

I must say, I am 99% of the time utterly repulsed by any type of avant-garde, but this is something different. It kinda makes sense. Like it.

なんだかんだこの人のパワフルなプロコフィエフが好き

This is a certified vibe

I enjiying every time, I listen this polka! Exact, filigree playing.

考え計算し尽くした即興性！ 大好きなピアニストです。感性と理性が融合した演奏

love this thanks

I personally think that the most beautiful Prokofiev Piano Sonata is the No. 3 then followed by the No. 1.

I also have this but thanks for uploading it and saving me from finding it! I much preferred this recording to the later ones. There is something in the way the Steinway sound has been captured that so adds to the performance. A shame it was not transferred to digital.

Très heureux de retrouver cette interprétation par mon maître Marcel Ciampi. Je pense qu'il s'agit d'un repiquage du 78 tours paru dans les années 34 - 35 si ma mémoire est bonne... Une très belle interprétation, profonde, totalement dans l'esprit de Debussy...

初見ならラフマニノフのソナタと言っても信じられるくらいにロマン派引きずってる感じが好き

I wish Smith's recording of shorter Alkan works on an 1850's Erard would be restored 192/384 bit resolution or something and re-released.

I too love this piece! I am going to hear it performed tonight in Brecon Cathedral by the young Jordanian-Palestinian Iyad Sughayer.

I love this piece! I am going to hear it performed tonight in Brecon Cathedral by the young Jordanian-Palestinian Iyad Sughayer.

I love this piece! I am going to hear it performed tonight in Brecon Cathedral by the young Jordanian-Palestinian Iyad Sughayer.

I have to say its hard to choose a favorite of P's sonatas, but I even surprised myself when I realized this is a top candidate for my fav. No.2 however is probably my very fav.

Funny work - brilliant playing as allways. It sounds like Gilels was having fun playing it.

Greatest recording of the last movement, hands down.

I studied with Jean Coulthard. She has to have been a very find pianist but she never played a note for me or for any of her students. Shame. It would have been great to have heard her play.

As ever, an unerring rhythmic incisiveness and most luscious tone, combined with flawless powerful yet very subtle technique that completely overwhelmed audiences fortunate to hear this incredible artist in recital. FORMIDABLE, LA OUSSET!

Incredible! Thanks for posting!

I had the pleasure of meeting and auditioning for, this great artist, Ozan Marsh, in the early 1980's at the U of A Tucson where he taught pianoforte. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt's star pupils; Emil von Sauer and Egon Petri. He was Classical music royalty. He held in his hands, the original manuscript of my Étude Op. 21. No. 1. As I played my heart and soul on his Concert Grand. Here is an Mp3 of the work he heard. www.broadjam.com/songs/AlvaroGuevara/piano-concert-opus-28-no-1-piano-solo Cheers, Alvaro Guevara y Vazquez, Composer.

@Archimimus

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, thank you for posting these works by Coulthard. The post-ward period in Canada, continuing until the advent of the millennium was such rich territory for many (avant-garde) Canadian artists: painters, filmmakers, and composers especially. It's a pity that the 'abstruse', 'recondite', and 'difficult' form and content of High Modernism remains so relegated to the margins of common cultural experience. Don't get me wrong - I can be as sentimental, Romantic, and plebeian as the next in my tastes, but I have always loved 20th century art and go to great lengths to defend it and promote it, and to know deeply the creative wealth of my countrymen and women, across classes, cultures, languages and 'positions'. Plaudits to these three remarkable women (and to Ann Southam) who by their independence of creative will and by their soul and intellect were 'feminist' in a very organic sense: by being beyond the dogmatically political, they were as such radically so.

Would have loved to talk to Professor Philipp about Debussy, Busoni, Ravel! Charming piece: a real treat!

Лучшее исполнение!

Such powerful, romantic playing-Yefim Bronfman is a pianist's pianist-a great musician understanding a masterpiece of piano writing.

What was the work ("La ci ...") upon which Chopin composed these variations? "Là ci darem la mano" -- Italian for, "There we will give each other our hands [in marriage]" -- is a duet for the characters Don Giovanni (baritone) and Zerlina (soprano) in Mozart's 1787 opera, "Don Giovanni."

such poetry!

Utterly beautiful playing... Thank you very much, Alan for this great and rare upload

Emil Gilels

It says Eugene List

Eine wertvolle Aufnahme und sehr vornehm gespielt !

Alongside his performance of the complete Minor Key Etudes, this ranks as one of the very best Alkan performances of Smith - I also used to have this record in my collection.