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Paul Geffen
lpaul@...
Feb 23, 1999 3:36 pm
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In case you didn't know, there is a fairly complete discography of Kempff, compiled by Frank Forman, on my site: http://www.richter.simplenet.com/Kempff.html ...
Paul Geffen
lpaul@...
Feb 24, 1999 2:39 pm
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Now that there are thirty members in this email group it is time to start a lively discussion. I have found that one of the most controversial of the great...
Paul Geffen
lpaul@...
Feb 25, 1999 3:56 pm
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I've read a note somewhere that Pogorelich declined to be included in the latest Philips' edition. Anybody has some information about that? What was the source...
Branimir Pofuk
bpofuk@...
Feb 26, 1999 12:10 am
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Anyone who is a fan of old giants of the keyboard, eg. Rubinstein, Arrau, Richter, or one of the greatest conductors, Fritz Reiner, is welcome to join my...
Lin Xiu Min
pianoboy@...
Feb 26, 1999 9:26 am
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I've read a note somewhere that Pogorelich declined to be included in the latest Philips' edition. Anybody has some information about that? What was the source...
Lela Knezevic
bpofuk@...
Feb 26, 1999 3:28 pm
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I've enjoyed every Kempff recording I've ever heard, but I don't listen to them often. Something is missing that I find in Richter and others: a sense of...
Alexander J. Morin
amorin@...
Feb 26, 1999 4:43 pm
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When I was in college, I listened to Kempff's recording of Beethoven's Op. 14, No. 1 because I was studying the piece. I thought I could play the music better...
parnassus@...
Feb 26, 1999 5:25 pm
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Something extraordinary about Kempff is his ability to express profundity at rather brisk tempi, eg late Beethoven - some pianists try to sound profound by...
Soeren Moerup
smoerup@...
Feb 27, 1999 12:38 pm
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To those of you who play as well as listen to piano music, I ask: Is anybody aware of internet site(s) from which one can purchase sheet music? Not just...
leslie mantrone
bellaterra@...
Feb 28, 1999 11:35 am
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What does anyone think of Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven? I just got his versions of the Op. 27 and Op. 28 sonatas and I didn't like them at all. However, it was...
Nicholas Fox
pbva@...
Feb 28, 1999 11:35 am
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The critic Tim Page and I once had a discussion about various complete recordings of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, shortly after the second Barenboim set was...
Leslie Gerber/Parnass...
parnassus@...
Feb 28, 1999 4:21 pm
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After searching in vain for a decade for a consistently spellbinding interpretation of the Beethoven piano/cello sonatas, I settled, somewhat surprised, on...
leslie mantrone
bellaterra@...
Feb 28, 1999 4:33 pm
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Dear Soeren and others, I was lucky enough to have the original LP of the Mozart works you asked about. I found them on CD about 3 years ago in Switzerland, on...
Tom Best
tombest@...
Feb 28, 1999 4:45 pm
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Soeren Moerup writes: "After searching in vain for a decade for a consistently spellbinding interpretation of the Beethoven piano/cello sonatas, I settled,...
Peter Schenkman
peter_schenkman@...
Feb 28, 1999 11:55 pm
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Dear friends, admirers of Martha Argerich will be glad to know that her PDU recordings, once distributed by Emi and out of stock since some years, are now...
a.notar@...
Mar 1, 1999 11:15 am
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Allow me to make two predictions, one fairly obvious, the other perhaps more of a risk. Two young pianists are destined for lasting fame. You have probably...
Paul Geffen
lpaul@...
Mar 2, 1999 7:30 pm
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the Argerich PDU recordings currently distributed in Italy by RTI Music are: Franck Violin Sonata w. Accardo - SC 60432 Dvorak Quintet op. 81 w. Accardo &...
a.notar@...
Mar 3, 1999 8:29 pm
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Hamelin's Medtner sonatas are phenomenal. New to Medtner, I don't know how much of this is Medtner, and how much Hamelin, but the combination is truly special....
leslie mantrone
bellaterra@...
Mar 4, 1999 12:50 pm
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A long portrait of Rosalyn Tureck and review of her new recording of the Goldberg Variations (in French) at: ...
Robert Gray
kinograph@...
Mar 4, 1999 1:11 pm
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Hamelin gave two concerts here in Tokyo not long ago. I did not attend either of them but have seen many reactions to the recitals from those who did. My...
Kwan Weng Kin
wengkin@...
Mar 4, 1999 1:22 pm
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I am intrigued to read that Hamelin is playing Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated." Since I first heard Rzewski himself playing that piece...
Leslie Gerber/Parnass...
parnassus@...
Mar 4, 1999 2:58 pm
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... He played the Rzewski work at one of his two recitals in Tokyo this January. From the reactions I saw, he gave it a rather Romantic gloss. Thanks to...
Kwan Weng Kin
wengkin@...
Mar 4, 1999 3:07 pm
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Greetings: Does anyone have a detailed discography of Michelangeli, including LPs, CDs and live performances that goes beyond the web version? Can anyone shed...
Matthew S. Joffe
msj1@...
Mar 6, 1999 5:14 am
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... There was a fairly good one published in Italy as part of a gigantic book (in Italian) devoted to ABM. It included LPs, CDs, Japanese only releases, and...
Farhan Malik
malikf@...
Mar 6, 1999 6:14 am
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Preferring my Chopin more 'Teutonic' than 'Sissy', to quote a recent entry from one Richter list member, I find myself drawn only very selectively to his...
leslie mantrone
bellaterra@...
Mar 6, 1999 3:57 pm
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I too am curious about Hamelin's "The People United...", since I think highly of the piece and have been somewhat less impressed with Hamelin's musicianship...
atanin@...
Mar 7, 1999 12:01 pm
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... musicianship ... about ... himself ... Oppens on ... According to one Japanese Hamelin fan who was at his Tokyo concert, the "free part" sounded like a...
Kwan Weng Kin
wengkin@...
Mar 7, 1999 11:26 pm
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Dear Leslie, I, too, have struggled to find satisfactory interpretations of this great work. I don't like 'my' Chopin either "teutonic" or "sissy," because...
Miriam Fleer
fleer@...
Mar 8, 1999 8:16 am
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In the mid-seventies Fred Rzewski gave several concerts in the Woodstock area, under the auspices of the Creative Music Studio. I heard him play two programs a...
