Simon Barere: Live Recordings at Carnegie Hall, Vol. 1 (1946)

Franz Liszt (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Alexander Glazunov (Composer), Carl Maria von Weber (Composer), David Brockman (Conductor), New York Philharmonic (Orchestra), Simon Barere (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Simon Barere
• Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
• Conductor: David Brockman
• Composer: Franz Liszt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Alexander Glazunov, et al.
• Audio CD (August 29, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Apr UK
• ASIN: B00004WH7Y
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #765,942 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124 (LW H4): I. Allegro maestoso

2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124 (LW H4): II. Quasi adagio

3. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124 (LW H4): III. Allegretto vivace

4. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124 (LW H4): IV. Allegro marziale animato

5. Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for keyboard in D minor, BWV 903 (BC L34): Chromatic Fantasia

6. Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for keyboard in D minor, BWV 903 (BC L34): Fugue

7. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Moderato cantabile molto espressivo

8. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Allegro molto

9. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Adagio ma non troppo

10. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Fuga, Allegro ma non troppo

11. Fantasy for piano in F minor/A flat major, Op. 49, C. 42: opening

12. Etude for piano in C major, Op. 31/1

13. Gnomenreigen, for piano (Zwei Konzertetüden No. 2), S. 145/2 (LW A218/2)

14. Valse de l'opéra Faust, transcription for piano (after Gounod), S. 407 (LW A208): Waltz

15. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major ('Perpetuum Mobile'), J. 138 (Op. 24): Presto (Perpetuum mobile)

16. Ballade for piano No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, CT. 5: minus opening 14 bars

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4.0 out of 5 stars an internal comment, June 24, 2009

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This review is from: Simon Barere: Live Recordings at Carnegie Hall, Vol. 1 (1946) (Audio CD)

My comment goes on the reconstruction process from the old, original acetate records to the new, finished master (analogue or digital). I'm highly sensitive to sudden changes in pitch - being an experienced record-collector and educated musician (conductor). In Barere's recording of Fantasy and Fugue (Bach), more precisely in the fugue, a sudden change in pitch occurs, at the point of acetate disc shift - and highly disturbing! The reason to this error is of course that assuming all acetate-cutting equipment to run at same and even speed (78 rpm), which they sometimes do NOT!!!
Speed in old records is a highly complicated issue. My old friend Claus Byrith made a beautiful issue of a CD with "Three Danish Woman Pianists" (vol. 1), where the same type of error occurs in the most sensitive of sensitive places: the funeral march of Chopin's b-flat minor sonata (played by Galina Werchenska), an, in other aspects, wonderful recording. I have the original shellac discs, and the first side of the funeral march runs 78 rpm. - but the next side runs 77 rpm. (and is, erroneously, transferred at 78 rpm., making the pitch suddenly rise a quartertone).What a shame! And blemishing an otherwise fine issue.
Back to Barere. May he not be an outstanding musician, he was certainly an outstanding pianist!