Post by dbmay75 August 2, 2008 (1 of 4)
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Hi everyone,
I need to pick up a copy of this on CD and soon, but I don't know which recording is best. Can anyone here recommend a preferred recording?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions
Dan
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Post by Peter August 2, 2008 (2 of 4)
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I have the 2L recording SACD - Steffen Horn - it's the piano version and I think it's excellent.
The other SACD is on Audite - I don't have that, but it also has the message-boarder's favourite, "March of the Trolls". (ho ho ho.....)
Orchestral version also available - there's a perfectly good Naxos CD.
http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//8554050.htm
CD versions of the piano version - several excellent ones, here are two:
1. Andsnes EMI
2. Ciccolini (complete)
Unfortunately Gilels' DG recording doesn't include it, unless I'm much mistaken....
Peter
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Post by wehecht August 3, 2008 (3 of 4)
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Peter said:
I have the 2L recording SACD - Steffen Horn - it's the piano version and I think it's excellent.
The other SACD is on Audite
The Audite disc (92.555, also the piano version) is also excellent. In fact the whole disc has received well deserved laudatory reviews in Fanfare and on audaud.com, and demonstrates just how good a 44.1/24 PCM recording can be. Choice between these two discs would be based on coupling. Harada gives us 23 of Grieg's 66 "lyric pieces" while Horn presents a mixed recital including Dussek, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev.
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Post by andrewb August 3, 2008 (4 of 4)
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wehecht said:
The Audite disc (92.555, also the piano version) is also excellent.
I would agree, the first tracks sound slightly tentative in my view, but overall Harada's playing is very good, having a refined and crystalline quality plus an excellent recording.
Note: the Horn disc includes audience applause! Which makes it a definite non-purchase for me.
The RBCD Andsnes's disc on EMI is also good, with pleasent sound though obviously not the equal of that on the Audite disc, but Andsnes does use Grieg's piano.
The selections that Harada and Andsnes make from the Lyric Pieces are relatively distinct, only about half of the choices overlap.
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