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Several months later and not even a reply to this message. Wow.

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I created a new account at least 3 weeks ago so I can change my username, but you have never approved it. I followed all the steps. Come on, man, get it together!

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Oh, how sad. I just love every recording by him. What a loss to the world, not to mention his family and friends.

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Have you heard this LP?

I love the image on the back cover:

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Shakespeare in Modern English? By JAMES SHAPIRO OCT. 7, 2015 The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has decided that Shakespeare’s language is too difficult for today’s audiences to understand. It recently announced that over the next three years, it will commission 36 playwrights to translate all of Shak...

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He's probably my favorite Baroque specialist--his tone is less thin and scratchy than many others', and he plays with great intensity.

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I have autographs from Lazar Berman and Birgit Nilsson, among others. (No, he didn't accompany her!)

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Did you install over your previous version or do a clean install?

Guitarist · Re: Lance's programs July 11/18/25, 2015: John Ogdon, pianis Bummer.

Bummer.

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I was out of town when you first aired the programs--are they archived so one can listen to them after the fact?

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I highly recommend this one--it's worth it for the Shostakovich No.24 alone!

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This is a most wonderful recording. I far prefer this music on a modern piano. Steinway knows how to build as well as record them!

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With a little luck, perhaps President Trump will appoint him as the White House Science Advisor.

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It was broadcast on NPR about 30 years ago and is not commercially available. I worked for an affiliate station at the time and dubbed a copy for myself! I did some checking to see if I have the live recording recording you refer to below of the Alkan Concerto and the solo version of Liszt's Totenta...

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I love his playing. It seems that his ability to play with breath-taking pianissimos is overshadowed by his ability to make the piano explode! That new biography is both fascinating and heart-breaking. I'm so sorry that I never got to see him in concert. Two of my favorite recordings by him are the ...

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Modernistfan wrote:As for the statements that he is Jewish, I have seen no documentation.

I suppose someone who really cared could stand next to him at a urinal and find out for sure.

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I'm disappointed that they didn't choose Christian Thielemann and went for another non-German. Oh well, I guess they know who they wanted!

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$150 for this multi-channel SACD. I'll be selling it on Amazon since I'm ditching my surround-sound gear and going back to 2-channel.

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I just ordered his "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Petrushka" disc on DG--have his "Diabelli Variations" on my Amazon Want List. I also own his Messiaen, Brahms, and Beethoven Sonata No.32 releases and thoroughly enjoy them. I guess he just isn't that well known. I like his playing very much, espec...

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Ugorski's Scriabin set arrived today. I was a little concerned by the timings listed, but in reality they work out just fine! Slightly slower tempos allow him to bring out all sorts of interesting details, as well as play with greater intensity. And believe me, he doesn't lack virtuosity. Marc-Andre...

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I went ahead and ordered it--$22 is not a deal breaker! I'm sure there will be some very insightful, if rather slow, playing. I've read generally good reviews. I guess he basically replaces surface sparkle with depth and profundity--sounds good to me! That Messiaen disc is fantastic. I'm not normall...

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Has anyone heard his Scriabin Sonatas disc? Some of the timings indicate slow tempos, but that worked for Beethoven's Op.111.

Hideous cover!

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I saw him several years ago in San Francisco--he was electrifying! The first half was Bach, Liszt, Bach-Liszt. The second half included Schumann's Sonata No.2 and probably another piece that escapes me!

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barney wrote:and someone called Behzod Abduraimov which I have no recollection of getting.

Why not? He's an amazing virtuoso.

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The "real" recording is still available for a realistic price:

http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Piano-S ... +beethoven

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Sheppard played all six Partitas in a single evening--quite a feat--and this presumably unedited recording reveals astonishingly accurate finger-work and powerful interpretations. He makes full use of a modern grand's resources, including some judicious pedaling, and a broad range of dynamics and to...

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A loaded gun in Walmart...sounds about right. I am sorry for her death, though.

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I've used it for years--it's great.

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Igor Zhukov playing his transcription of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor.

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With this combination of musicians, one could hardly go wrong! The sound is great, too.

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Perhaps not quite in the same league as similar works by Corelli or Handel, but they are engaging enough.

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She humanizes this work rather than treating it as an exercise in counterpoint through majestic playing. Good sound--perhaps a trifle distant/reverberant.

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Most pop/rock musicians have precious little originality/talent in the first place, then factor in a lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse, what else would one expect besides deterioration? OK, could I make any larger sweeping generalizations? :D I do think there's an element of truth in my comments th...

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I received this set today and began with the "Hammerklavier" Sonata--magnificent!

and this classic recording:

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I subscribe to The Absolute Sound , and while it's hard to take seriously their claim to hear differences among a.c. cables or isolation feet (I wish I were kidding...), I do like to keep up with the latest equipment and trends. Some of their equipment reviews also contain abstract descriptions of s...

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I love this book. Ogdon's life was so sad--I guess he lived up to the aphorism, "The other side of genius is madness." I would think his life would make a great biopic.

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In honor of what would have been Schnittke's 80th birthday today. The 5th Symphony has absolutely shattering climaxes--I'd love to hear it live sometime--no recording can do them justice, but this one makes a brave effort. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lFiNZbyrL.jpg https://i1.ytimg.com/vi...

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I almost cannot post to this out of distress. Rob will see my Facebook post which goes into more detail. I lost a 16-year-old, something between a student and a friend, over a shooting in Baltimore. I will never get over it. How can these people be such monsters, and what will it take to overcome t...

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Giuliano Carmignola certainly doesn't disappoint on this new Bach recording. He plays with tremendous verve and beauty. I far prefer this disc to Rachel Podger's for both performance and sound quality even though the latter is SACD.

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So I splurged and bought the $46 SACD SHM (super high materials) version of this disc, which doesn't even include the original fillers of Till, Don Juan, and The Dance of the Seven Veils. Mind you, a new copy of the complete original recording sells for $6.10 from an Amazon seller. Is the shorn SACD...

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I too received that set as a gift. I haven't listened to every disc yet, but so far, the Barber Sonata takes the cake for intensity! I'm also thrilled to have his televised recital on DVD.

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Well, it is the internet, so a certain amount of stupidity should be expected. And to end the suspense, yes, I am a guitarist and life-long lover of classical music--I count myself as reasonably knowledgeable. :D And to end the suspense, YOU have never been in doubt, and all one would wish is that ...

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Well, it is the internet, so a certain amount of stupidity should be expected.

And to end the suspense, yes, I am a guitarist and life-long lover of classical music--I count myself as reasonably knowledgeable.

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They recently played in my town and were excellent. The program consisted of two excerpts from Smetana's "Ma Vlast," Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 (with Jean-Yves Thibaudet), and Dvorak's 9th Symphony.

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I guess this could have gone in the Pub section, too, but good for him! It's nice to hear of someone with ironclad principles:

http://www.newscatalonia.com/2014/10/jo ... prize.html

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I like Abdel Rahman El Bach's recordings of them. He's plenty expressive without being eccentric.

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This excellently played and recorded disc arrived today. His performance of the Mephisto Waltz is less demonic than a few others that I own (Horowitz, Berman, Richter and Alexei Sultanov), but the other pieces are very powerful and Romantic in spirit. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61i3CMODIK...

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lennygoran wrote:It's been a long time since I visited my FB page--a friend had included a link to this youtube clip--I know lots of times this issue of correct use of language and grammar comes up here in our forum--I admit I goof up alot!

"Alot" is two words: a lot.

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