[pianotech] Fazioli (and going off-topic)

[david at piano.plus.com]

Hi Brian,

Yes, I saw this morning when I checked the Hyperion website, that they are
now up to 7 with the Bach transcriptions!  (By the way, a great Hyperion
series is the Gottschalk series).

Another Hyperion I forgot to mention is "Rambles and Reflections", Percy
Grainger arrangements, also on Fazioli, played by Piers Lane. I have that
one, not listened for a while, will listen this evening!

There's also Wayne Marshall doing Gershwin Concerto in F on Fazioli (not
Hyperion).

I always  thought of Piers Lane as Australian, not English. I'd love to
hear him play live, must check out when he's coming to the UK.  Wigmore
Hall would be great to hear him, or, for me, much better still, City Halls
Glasgow!

The sleeve notes for the Bach Transcriptions number 2 sadly don't list the
technician. The info given is:

Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London on 4,4,6 May 2002
Recording Engineer: ARNE ASKELBERG
Recording Producer: AMANDA HURTON
Piano:   STEINWAY & SONS
Front Design:  TERRY SHANNON
Booklet Editor:  TIM PARRY
Executive producers SIMON PERRY, MICHAEL SPRING

Prokofiev No 3, great  warhorse. I can well imagine that any
less-then-rock-solid tuning would very quickly get wrecked in the first
movement!

I know this is all a bit off-topic, and this is a tech list.  But I hope
list members don't mind the occasional foray into other aspects of the
results and raison d'etre of our work (note the fluent french.....).

I recently got the current Stuart & Sons demo CD in the post.

Best regards,

David.

> David, thanks for that information. I didn't know about the number 3 with
> Piers. I shall see him next week. I spent a week with him in February
> recording 2 concerti and I am a great fan on his work. I also know that
> Piers has links to Steinway and Fazioli on his website.
> Look for the Angela Hewitt's Bach concerti with the Australian Chamber
> Orchestra. I don't know the record label though. I hear the recordings on
> our ABC Classic FM ( www.abc.net.au/classic )here in Australia, but I
> don't
> own the CD's. This recording was on a Fazioli F278 from The Sydney Town
> Hall.
> Back to Demidenko cd. I first bought the CD number 1 after hearing it
> being
> played and plugged on ABC Classics. I was so impressed with the sound.
> After
> hearing that I had to buy number 2 and I found that the piano was a Faz. I
> was a little disappointed in the sound however a friend who worked in the
> recording industry in the UK and is now here in Brisbane told me that the
> music isn't as big as the first cd. How is Piers' cd and could you tell me
> the piano technician (if it is in the notes as no 2 tech is not listed)
> Nikolai was here in Brisbane 2 years ago playing Prokieff (sorry) 3. I
> tuned
> the rehearsal pianos and I mean plural so that he could go from 1 piano to
> the other. He completely destroyed the piano in the first movement during
> the performance and I am so glad it wasn't my work as I was sitting in the
> audience. Amazing performance however the piano didn't stand up to him.
> Thank you for this off topic discussion. It is great to discuss music and
> pianists. Does Piers get up your way? Now do you claim Piers to be
> English,
> or do you think he is Australian?
> BTW I just looked up Piers' website.... we have to buy more Bach
> Transcriptions... they are up to 7.
> Best wishes
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of david at piano.plus.com
> Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 7:00 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fazioli (and going off-topic)
>
> Oh that's interesting Brian. Thanks for the information about the
> Demidenko CD.
>
> I have number 3 in the Bach transcriptions series, played by Piers Lane,
> but that's on a Steinway. I've also got the Hyperion Bach Arrangements
> with Angela Hewitt, also on Steiway, before she moved to her Fazioli.  I
> also have No 2 in Hewitt's Hyperion Beethoven and somehow I can't warm to
> it, but I don't know if it's the piano or not.
>
> I'd like to do a shameless and off-topic plug for Hyperion Records here.
> www.hyperion-records.co.uk
>
> The quality of their productions is very high, always well-recorded and
> always with superb notes in the booklet.
>
> Also, in teaching a law unit I was covering copyright and Hyperion had an
> interesting case (google Hyperion Sawkins Copyright). I emailed Hyperion
> to ask permision to reproduce in student notes an online article by one of
> their staff, and within two hours Mr Perry himself, founder of the
> company, personally replied with gracious permission.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David.
>
>
>>Nikolai Demidenko has a Bach Piano Transcriptions-2 Busoni on the
>> Hyperion
>>label and it is definitely not a cold sound.
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