London Collection [Original recording remastered]

London Collection [Original recording remastered]

London Collection [Original recording remastered]

ASIN: B00000J8A0

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In the excellent liner notes to this collection (previously available on the Black Lion label), Alun Morgan quotes Monk authority Max Harrison, who wrote, "Thelonious Monk works so exclusively with the basic materials of jazz that, in the best moments, his playing almost becomes a working definition of that music." After a few spins of this gorgeous recording, culled from Monk's last studio session in 1971, one must wonder why Harrison's statement equivocates by using the word almost. This solo outing (given an impeccable, 24-bit remastering job, by the way) presents some of Monk's best-known tunes--"Trinkle, Trinkle," Crepuscule with Nellie," "Blue Sphere"--which are given a reworking that's both sentimental and very stirring. Also included are tracks that Monk rarely recorded, such as wistful reading of "My Melancholy Baby" and an introspective "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland." Aside from the magnificent performance and the sterling recording quality, the most powerful element of this recording is Monk's shiver-inducing ability to reinvent, recompose, and innovate--which is front and center here. Highly recommended. --S. Duda

London Collection,Thelonious Monk,1201 Music,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop
Recordings 1930-1951
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  • Super-human virtuosity of young Horowitz
 Recordings 1930-1951

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002S1W
Release Date: 1990-07-18

Tracks:

  1. Choral Prld, BWV 734: Nun freut euch, leiben Christen
  2. Son in b, KK 87
  3. Son in G, KK 87
  4. Son in a, KK 188
  5. Son in A, KK 188
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  11. Impromptu in A flat, Op.29
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  14. Mazurka in e, Op.41
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  18. Pastourelle (L'Eventail de Jeanne, No.8)
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  1. 32 Vars in c, WO 80
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  4. Traumeswirren (Fantasiestucke Op.12 No.7)
  5. Presto passionato (Original Finale of Son No.2 Op.22)
  6. Funerailles (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, No.7)
  7. Son in b

Tracks:

  1. Con for pno in d, No.3 Op.30: I. Allegro
  2. Con for pno in d, No.3 Op.30: II. Intermezzo-Adagio
  3. Con for pno in d, No.3 Op.30: III. Finale (Alla breve)
  4. Prld in g, Op.23 No.5
  5. The Flight of the Bumble-Bee
  6. Petrouchka: Danse Russe
  7. Toccata, Op. 11

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The drawback to this comprehensive feast of prime Vladimir Horowitz is EMI's overzealous noise reduction, which smoothes the edges off of the great pianist's unique sonority. This is less bothersome in the 1951 sessions, which produced two delicious Scarlatti Sonatas not reissued elsewhere. The high-voltage Horowitz of the thirties was a more direct, less mannered artist than his older self. But his classic Liszt Sonata, Chopin Fourth Scherzo, and other solo EMI jewels are best heard via APR's superior (albeit more expensive) transfers. This erratic but exciting Rach 3 (with cuts, and a momentary third movement memory lapse) still awaits a CD transfer to match that of a bygone Seraphim LP. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Super-human virtuosity of young Horowitz.......2007-06-15


I give 5 stars for this 3CD set despite the old recording sound. Sound of piano itself is reasonably well for the day once you are used to the background noise, good enough to convey the subtlty and delicacy of his playing.

Prokofiev's Toccata is still fastest and most exciting on records, verging on super-human. Rachmaninov's 3rd concerto is the best performance by Horowitz with more argency and intensity than his later recordings. The incandescent account of Liszt Sonata is one of the most compelling and beautiful along side Richter and Pogorelich's classic accounts.

Haydn and Scarlatti sonatas, Beethoven variations, Schumann's Toccata, Chopin Etudes, Stravinsky's Petrushka and so much more display Horowitz' keen sense of tonal colours and mind blowing fluency of playing.
Backhaus: The Complete British Acoustic Recordings, 1908-25
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    		Backhaus: The Complete British Acoustic Recordings, 1908-25

    Manufacturer: Pearl
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    Release Date: 2001-02-27

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    2. Liebestraum No. 3 In A Flat
    3. 'Harmonious Blacksmith' Vars
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    11. Variations On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 35, Book II
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    Backhaus was among the giants of 20th-century keyboard artists, renowned for his solid--some would say stolid--Beethoven and Brahms interpretations. The younger Backhaus was a more overtly virtuosic pianist with a wide repertory. This invaluable Pearl set covers his British recordings, starting in 1908 when he was only 24, and it includes composers and works he abandoned in later years when he pared his programs down to essential masterworks. So we get his only recordings of Rachmaninoff, whom he admired as the greatest among living piano composers, along with Bach, Scarlatti, and others. Backhaus's dazzling virtuosity can be heard in his abridged Brahms Paganini Variations, the Liszt, La Campanella, with its marvelously even runs, and the Weber, Perpetuum Mobile, with precise articulation at fast speeds, among many other examples. Some of his early electrical recordings fill out disc two, sounding fresher than most of the acoustics. Seth Winner's transfers on both well-filled discs are uniformly fine. Collectors of historical recordings will want these rarities. --Dan Davis
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