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Neil Tingley
Jan 2, 2014, 9:15:28 AM1/2/14
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Bloody BBC will have the concert in good sound. But we have this:
http://paddysartsreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/john-ogdon-in-1984an-historic-recording.html
A bit scrappy but thrilling! Fascinating to hear Ogdon's interpretation - he always had a lot to say in Rachmaninov. Big Candenza.
http://paddysartsreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/john-ogdon-in-1984an-historic-recording.html
A bit scrappy but thrilling! Fascinating to hear Ogdon's interpretation - he always had a lot to say in Rachmaninov. Big Candenza.
Frank Berger
Jan 2, 2014, 10:02:19 AM1/2/14
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recorded it commercially, it appears.
td
Jan 2, 2014, 5:43:33 PM1/2/14
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Thrilling?
Hmmmmmmm.
There is nothing thrilling about the recording, which sounds to me as though the guilty recorder forgot to turn on his Dolby B when he transcribed it to digital. The piano sounds for all the world like an amplified xylophone. Appalling would be my word for it. Hardly thrilling. One could also say painful.
Presumably the BBC has passed on this "gem" for reasons of sound. Ogdon also doesn't seem as home in this concerto as he is in No. 2. It happens, I guess.
All in all this does little credit to Ogdon's memory. Best buried. A clear example of a recording which should never be disseminated.
TD
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Jan 3, 2014, 1:24:44 AM1/3/14
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Neil Tingley
Jan 3, 2014, 4:18:47 PM1/3/14
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On Thursday, 2 January 2014 22:43:33 UTC, td wrote:
> There is nothing thrilling about the recording, which sounds to me as though the guilty recorder forgot to turn on his Dolby B when he transcribed it to digital. The piano sounds for all the world like an amplified xylophone. Appalling would be my word for it. Hardly thrilling.
It's a mp3 transfer of a bad bootleg. BBC broadcast the concert from Perth in 1984. Yeah it's terrible in many ways but i enjoyed listening to it until the 3rd movement where the orchestra and Ogdon go astray a couple of times.
> There is nothing thrilling about the recording, which sounds to me as though the guilty recorder forgot to turn on his Dolby B when he transcribed it to digital. The piano sounds for all the world like an amplified xylophone. Appalling would be my word for it. Hardly thrilling.
Hopefully one day a decent performance might surface perhaps from the proms. Too many fantastic Ogdon performances are still languishing in the archives and too many crap ones have been formally releases (EMI Rachmaninov for example).
td
Jan 3, 2014, 4:22:49 PM1/3/14
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You can thank his widow for that release, I think.
TD
TD
Neil Tingley
Jan 3, 2014, 4:42:41 PM1/3/14
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On Friday, 3 January 2014 21:22:49 UTC, td wrote:
> You can thank his widow for that release, I think.
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I've heard many things about her but never met her. She used to be at the Wigmore quite often. I don't go there much these days.
> You can thank his widow for that release, I think.
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