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I remember him fondly as one of the leading lights of this forum.

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What's wrong about Amazon? The same thing. Not at all. Amazon sells products, and the only personal information they require is the minimum needed to collect payments and ship purchases, which any online or mail order vendor needs to have since the Sears catalog and before. While customers can post...

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Part 2 of this message so that you don't have to keep on scrolling down. There are, according to my calculations, 20 CDs where the two collections overlap. There were also a few (about 5 or 6) where there was only a one year difference between supposed recording dates but as these are live recording...

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OK, here goes. I will be highlighting the overlaps as it will take less time. CD1 Chopin: Smooth swashes and gorgeous Polish dance, Mozart Don Juan theme variation Piano: Postnikova Roževstevinski Conducts Soviet Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture (1990, 1984) Debussy: Two excerpts of "Ki...

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The Rubinstein was initially issued by the Russian Revelation label about 20 or so years ago I know this because I bought it. It’s all the Chopin from the legendary October 1964 concert in Moscow. It has since been released as part of the 142 CD Rubinstein Collection which also includes the encores ...

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The Brilliant Classics box (which I have) is different from the Legendary Soviet Recordings box though I imagine that there would be some overlap. The Legendary box is from Yendang and does, I believe, include the famous Richter/Borodin Trio recording of the Dvorak Op 81. The BC box is all about sol...

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Robert Merrill and Jussi Bjorling. Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. This has to be one of the greatest opera performances of all time. I don't use the word definitive often but this has to be it.

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I have the complete Perahia set and love it. While there are some performances of the later concertos by other pianists which have been outstanding this set by Perahia is just so satisfying to listen to. The one that switched me onto his Mozart PCs was a single CD I bought of the 9th and 21. I bough...

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Unfortunately, it's not just confined to CM. As a coach of competitive swimming I see the exact same thing, the parental drive to have their child achieve at the highest possible level at the earliest possible age. I know of one boy who trains eight sessions a week and he's only nine years old. It '...

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To put this into perspective, this competition is for pianists under the age of 16. Still, it's amazing to hear a 10 year old play this well.

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I have a CD of her playing Scarlatti - it's excellent.

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In his younger years Ashkenazy was one of the finest Chopin pianists around. The LP recorded when he placed second in the Warsaw competition (Adam Harasiewicz was first), including the second concerto and some solo pieces, and Melodiya's complete recording of the Chopin etudes, are still tops for m...

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I've not heard Sherman. I have the first of Brendel's set of the '32 and like the approach he takes with most of it. For me, Arrau is hit and miss. His Op 111 is absolutely outstanding but other sonatas I've heard have been neither here nor there. That said, I have listened to all 32 by him. I agree...

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While this was a hackneyed piece, Eileen Joyce's articulation is stunning.

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The first movement doesn't work for me. Ashkenazy had a reputation for being a bit of a 'basher' in his early days and it seems to be very evident here. The second and third movements are much better though the heavy hands do reappear in the finale. For me there are two Op 13s that work really well....

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Is Yuja Wang just another example of the new breed of highly technically proficient 'wunderkind' who have very little musical 'soul' (for want of a better word but I hope you know what I mean)? Is she representative of the current group of young piano prodigies who have dutifully done the rounds of ...

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The box is on Spotify - I'm listening to it now.

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Can't say that I agree with virtually any of that. The exceptions are the Britten/Rostropovich Arpeggione and the Schubert String Quintet.

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I've virtually stopped buying CDs and for two reasons. As others have said I have enough LvB PS/Symphs/Ctos to last me a long time and the same goes for all of the other composers that I consider core repertoire. The same goes for those great performers. On top of that there is streaming music from ...

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I am another who prefers Schnabel’s Schubert over his LvB.

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It could be a variety of things. If it's the free version of Spotify then this is a lower bit rate which could affect sound quality. Why and how are you relaying the sound to/from a bluetooth device when you have (or could have) Spotify installed directly on your PC and therefore playing directly to...

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This is available on Spotify and I've been listening to it as I write this post. Ozawa's tempo is quick enough for the work not to lag and while Martha's opening solo seemed to be behind the tempo Ozawa set, once the orchestra chimed in all was resolved. Argerich can still command a light and fleet ...

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Some AV programs will prevent this from happening. The best at the moment appears to be Bitdefender though Norton ranked very highly as well.

I use an AV on my iMac just in case.

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Ivan Davis, who introduced me to the amazing music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk has died.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/o ... 25919.html

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I have CDRs of parts of volumes 2&3 of the series mentioned by Reblem. it is the only way I could get a complete 'cycle' of the LvB symphonies as RCA only published 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9. #2 comes from the Pittsburgh Years and was issued on CD by Columbia. 2&4 come from the CSO series mentioned above. I...

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I love Scarlatti who I think was well ahead of his time so I have recordings by many pianists (though nothing on harpsichord). Top interpretations for me include Sergei Babayan, Dubravka Tomsic, Mordecai Shehori, Yevgeny Sudbin, Gilels and of course Horowitz. Weissenberg is 2nd tier for me.

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McLuhan is one of my gurus - a true modern day philosopher.

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One of the most amazing recording Szell ever made is of the Tchaikovsky 4th with the LSO. As it's a Decca recording it's not in the box.

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Wow, Len.!! Quite a photo, too long ago to remember when that was. :lol: How about these names from the past ? Lofstra, piston, Stenka Razin, Heck, Calvin, Bob Zeidler, Pczipott, baldric, tom Dill, A.C Douglas, Junendon, TM Kerch, Scott Morrison, Peter McNally, owlice, opera lover, Perry Tannenbaum...

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I'm so glad I got my Rubinstein collection when it first came out. I think it was $104.00. Not bad for 142 discs.

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Special Counsel........hmmm The current head of the US OSC is: Henry Kerner(TBD) Confirmed by the 115th United States Senate (voice vote) on October 16, 2017. He graduated from Harvard Law School and spent 18 years working as a career prosecutor in California. In 2011, he joined the staff of the Hou...

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The recent spate of Mozart piano sonata posts in a number of classical music forums has had me listening to a variety of pianists in this repertoire over the last few months. Usually, when I come to K457 in C minor it's preceded by the K475 fantasia and it's been interesting to hear how they have re...

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Donald Isler wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:26 am
Well, thank you all for these kind greetings, which I only discovered just now! I appreciate them! And Happy Belated Birthday to Holden, who, I believe, is a day older than me!

Seniority has it's privileges.

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Ditto from me too Donald from another Capricorn.

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So I bit the bullet and clicked on the Youtube link and immediately went to the part of the arietta after the variations. I've never been that impressed with Kissin in Beethoven but what I heard made me go back and listen to the whole sonata. This gets a big thumbs up from me. It's not in the typica...

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Op 111 is a work that polarises opinion because of the many ways that it can be interpreted. My first recording was Barenboim on EMI and he probably set the way that I like this work to be played. The Arietta is one of the most sublime pieces of piano writing ever composed IMO. What I want to hear i...

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He's up against some serious competition in D960. Haskil, Richter, Curzon, Kovacevich, Schnabel and Kempff. I'll give it a listen but to best Richter it will have to be very special.

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Whenever someone I know and love passes on, the Verdi Requiem is always played as a mark of respect.

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I've got long service leave in early 2019 and am headed for the UK so Wigmore Hall here I come. I was in London in April this year and got to experience the Good Friday performance of the Messiah at the RAH. Absolutely brilliant!

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This thread took off a bit while my attention was elsewhere. How gratifying! I love piano recitals, and in Melbourne we have a really fine auditorium now, seating about 1000. Re Holden Fourth, yes, it is very hard outside Melbourne and Sydney. Musica Viva brings out top pianists who tour the countr...

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I look forward to every new Grosvenor recording. The last pianist I did this for was Kissin. I think that Grosvenor is going to be even better.

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I'll come at this from a different perspective - the piano competition. They proliferate nowadays and the end reward for prize winners is a series of recitals. Recitals are far easier to program than concerto works for obvious reasons and in many places in the world the piano recital is alive and we...

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I imagine that this set would be almost impossible to acquire given the provenance and recording date. A pity because it has some Hungerford performances on it that I don't see existing anywhere else.

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That is the 2 LP album produced in 1978 by the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Foundation, started and run for 25 by my parents and some other Hungerford friends. So did I read it correctly and it does a have a PC4 on it? I'm also interested in what the archives at IPAM contain but I haven't worked out a...

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Thank you so much, JSerraglio , for putting up the video here! HoldenFourth, do you mean the entire performance is viewable? Reading the youtube comments I was certainly under the impression that this is the case based on a comment from Meloclassiscs themselves. I don't believe that there is an ext...

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This is awesome and reading the responses on Youtube, Meloclassic have the whole performance!

I can't find any recordings of Hungerford in the LvB PCs so this is an absolute gem.

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I bought her Chopin Waltzes on Erato in the early days of CDs and really liked them. Her nocturnes which were recorded later were a bit too fussy for me. Still, she is a very good pianist. I hope she enjoys here retirement.

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These are what I have 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 30, 31 and 32. Anyone aware of any others? This is what I have of BH's LvB: 20 sonatas in digital format on two Bach Guild/Vanguard Big Boxes costing 99 cents apiece. Also some Hungerford Schubert and Brahms in their res...

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Thank you for the heads up. I knew about that and it would be interesting to hear from Donald what other sonatas Hungerford had in his repertoire. It was great that he could track down those live recordings that appeared on the KASP CDs. I envy Donald because he had so many opportunities to hear him...

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