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Following Malx (who was following a thread he has been participating in) - Schumann's Bunte Blatter - but also a Richter recording of Pictures at an Exhibition (not the famous recording but also pretty good and with much better sound) and a touch of Debussy:
Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: HMC902105
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 68 minutes
Presto Recording of the Week
13th February 2012
First Choice
Building a Library
October 2015
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Orchestral Finalist
BBC Music Magazine Awards
2013
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BBC Music Magazine
April 2012
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Gramophone Magazine
March 2012
Disc of the Month
Recommended Recording
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Recommended Recording
I know I am not alone in this but have never understood why Craig Sheppard doesn't get issued by a proper label rather than having to produce his own records. These can be hard to find now that his own website is gone. His Bach especially is superb. It is really quite some time since I listened to the Bach partitas (I used to listen to them often) so listening to Sheppard's recording of the first four has been a real treat.
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Syrinx for solo flute
Sonata for violin and piano in G minor
Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
Trio for piano, violin, and cello in G major
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Gérard Caussé , viola
Edgar Moreau, cello
Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
I love these works greatly although I know they are not always that popular with members here (D887 was not a hit on the "quartets thread", for example).
And that's bonkers to me! D 887 (No. 15 in G major) is one of the quartets that made me fall in love with the whole genre, and remains my favorite Schubert quartet!
I know I am not alone in this but have never understood why Craig Sheppard doesn't get issued by a proper label rather than having to produce his own records...His Bach especially is superb.
I whole-heartedly agree! His Beethoven sonatas cycle also has may gems, competitive on a technical and interpretive level with anyone. It just shows you how much fame & fortune have far more to do with luck, whom you know and when, and other factors that have nothing whatsoever to do with music making. Craig is a friend, and a person and musician I respect very highly. There's no easy answer as to why he's not world-famous; but whatever the reasons, it's not because he isn't an incredible musician, because he certainly is.
I heard the Emerson String Quartet perform the Schumann Quintet live with Craig, and how I wished they had recorded it with him instead of Pressler! Not that Pressler's is in any way bad, just that Craig's was truly very special.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 and No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Maurizio Pollini
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
These are supremely crafted, charming, highly inventive concertos. Underrated.
One of the most remarkable things about the Passacaglia is that it is a composition by a young Bach. This sheds new light on what the maturation of an artist entails.
This great work was not one with many years of preparation and experience.
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