Shura Cherkassky

[Mandryka]

The Chopin and Schumann were all included in the live Decca/BBC CD edition. Some are difficult to get nowadays.
The Beethoven op.111 was a real loss - a World Record/Imperial LP which (AFAIK) was never issued in CD.

Here it is

http://rapidshare.com/files/233282745/cherkassky_beethoven_mp3.zip

Someone digitised it and uploaded it on rmcr a whie ago.

If you can't download it, or the file is broken, then PM me and I'll mail you a CD-R.

[Drasko]

Here it is

http://rapidshare.com/files/233282745/cherkassky_beethoven_mp3.zip

Someone digitised it and uploaded it on rmcr a whie ago.

If you can't download it, or the file is no longer at rapidshare, then PM me and I'll mail you a CD-R.

Off topic but would you know if LP transfers of Antonio Barbosa's Chopin Scherzi are available anywhere? From Connoisseur Society LP.

[George]

Here it is

http://rapidshare.com/files/233282745/cherkassky_beethoven_mp3.zip

Someone digitised it and uploaded it on rmcr a whie ago.

If you can't download it, or the file is no longer at rapidshare, then PM me and I'll mail you a CD-R.

Thanks! 

[Mandryka]

Off topic but would you know if LP transfers of Antonio Barbosa's Chopin Scherzi are available anywhere? From Connoisseur Society LP.

Here you are

http://www.vinylrevolution.com/album_B815209/Barbosa_Antonio/Chopin:the4scherzi_Chopinliszt_Quad.htm

[ccar]

Here it is

http://rapidshare.com/files/233282745/cherkassky_beethoven_mp3.zip

Someone digitised it and uploaded it on rmcr a whie ago.

If you can't download it, or the file is broken, then PM me and I'll mail you a CD-R.

Thank you Mandrika!!
I'll try to download it. I'm very curious to listen to SC in the 111.

Carlos 

[Verena]

Here you are

http://www.vinylrevolution.com/album_B815209/Barbosa_Antonio/Chopin:the4scherzi_Chopinliszt_Quad.htm

Thanks, Mandryka. Have you or anyone else ever bought something from them and can comment on the quality of the transfers?
Thanks.

[Mandryka]

Thanks, Mandryka. Have you or anyone else ever bought something from them and can comment on the quality of the transfers?
Thanks.

I bought Anthony DiBonaventura's Scarlatti.

Payed through Paypal.

Disc took about 3 weeks to arrive. Rather disconcertingly they didn't acknowledge receipt of the order. I made paypal chase them and then they confirmed receipt and gave me an ETA.

Clean surfaces. Declicked. Distortion in the upper registers at higher volumes. Hard to tell whether that's a problem with the transfer or the source. Generally the piano tone is quite realistic.


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[Verena]

I bought Anthony DiBonaventura's Scarlatti.

Payed through Paypal.

Disc took about 3 weeks to arrive. Rather disconcertingly they didn't acknowledge receipt of the order. I made paypal chase them and then they confirmed receipt and gave me an ETA.

Clean surfaces. Declicked. Distortion in the upper registers at higher volumes. Hard to tell whether that's a problem with the transfer or the source. Generally the piano tone is quite realistic.

Thanks very much for the information!

[mjwal]

Thanks so much for that Cherkassky/Op.111 link, Mandryka - hey presto! I look at a lot of blogs on & off, but I hadn't seen that on offer before. What's your impression of it? I haven't listened yet.

[Mandryka]

Thanks so much for that Cherkassky/Op.111 link, Mandryka - hey presto! I look at a lot of blogs on & off, but I hadn't seen that on offer before. What's your impression of it? I haven't listened yet.

I played the arietta once . I thought that the theme was very beautiful tonally -- but I must say it didn't register as a special performance apart from that.

This CD is special though -- just total pleasure from start to end.

The music -- well I never appreciated how much fun this sort of thing can be: Godowsky/Albeniz, Sindling, Moszkowsky, Paderewski, Rebikov . .

[Drasko]

Is there a live Kreisleriana from Cherkassky?

[George]

Is there a live Kreisleriana from Cherkassky?

I have a few live CDs of his and will check when I get home. If I forget, PM me.

[ccar]

Is there a live Kreisleriana from Cherkassky?

I believe there is only the studio one - June 1984 (?) - Nimbus or Philips GPOC

[George]

I have a few live CDs of his and will check when I get home. If I forget, PM me.

Nope. Not on the three live Cherkassky CDs that I have.

[Drasko]

I believe there is only the studio one - June 1984 (?) - Nimbus or Philips GPOC

Yes, it seems that's the only one (May/June 1985), thanks.

[George]

Picked up this CD dirt cheap yesterday and put on the Liszt track first - Funerailles. Man, was it good. I was transfixed from the very first note. Lovely playing and great sound. I had read some warnings about "late Cherkassky" (is this "late Cherkassky?), but took a chance and I am glad I did. However, the Beethoven that followed was limp and not to my taste at all (op. 27/1.) This morning I am enjoying the Bach/Busoni Chaconne a lot, though. The more I hear this pianist, the more I like him.

[Mandryka]

Picked up this CD dirt cheap yesterday and put on the Liszt track first - Funerailles. Man, was it good. I was transfixed from the very first note. Lovely playing and great sound. I had read some warnings about "late Cherkassky" (is this "late Cherkassky?), but took a chance and I am glad I did. However, the Beethoven that followed was limp and not to my taste at all (op. 27/1.) This morning I am enjoying the Bach/Busoni Chaconne a lot, though. The more I hear this pianist, the more I like him.

Be sure to pick up the Liszt sonata uploaded on symphonyshare

[George]

Be sure to pick up the Liszt sonata uploaded on symphonyshare

OK, Thanks!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I had read some warnings about "late Cherkassky" (is this "late Cherkassky?)...

I've had good luck with late Cherkassky (1984 is pretty late). But I by no means have much of it. There's that great Chopin third sonata I mentioned earlier on this thread - from 1985. But also his "80th" birthday recital disc from 1991 (he was actually 82 or some such) on Decca is a genuine treat, with a fabulous Schumann Symphonic Etudes.

One thing's for certain, though, by the time of that 1991 recital (he died in 1995) there's not quite the nimbleness in his playing that he had in, say, his spectacular 1970 recital disc on BBC Legends (below), where his far-reaching imagination is still fully supported by able fingers. But Cherkassky's imagination is something I've always cherished and so far I've yet to hear a clunker from him, no matter what his age.

Incidentally, one of the great discoveries I've made is the extremely high quality of Cherkassky's Schubert, although I have no idea how much of a percentage Schubert figured in his discography. But that BBC Legends disc below is graced with a pretty spectacular D.959. Stunning.



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[Mandryka]

There's a very rapt, interiorised performance of D664 on Nimbus. A studio recording from 1987.

In fact there's a more extrovert live from London in 1985, on a DECCA CD (Vol.1 of their Cherkassky edition)

Me I prefer the studio, partly because of the feeling that he's playing for himself; partly because of the concentration; partly because of a sort of melancholy which I can hear on the Nimbus which I can't hear on the DECCA.

Everyone else I know prefers the DECCA