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just found this video of Lazar Bermanquote Lazar Berman playing 6 Schubert-Liszt songs, Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, Nuages gris, and de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance, live in Moscow on 11 June 1981. I... 
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jimre Liszt/Schubert Song transcriptionsmy favorite rendition is Lazar Bermani have it on an old Discover International labelalong with Schubert Sonata D 960 (discussed earlier)and his interpretation of Rachmaninoff interpreting Rubinstein'stransc... 
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So much Bolet!The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection (10 cds)The Great Pianists Series, 4 cds in allRarest: half of a Russian album where he plays Liszt including Hungarian Rhapsody, Libestraum and Consolations.Richter is the other half of... 
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Yes Jim.With you there re Arrau, the epitome of classical piano.He really took us there, and he so loved driving the bus.As for Cortot, I love the "million dollar trio" - with Casals and Thibaud,especially their Beethoven and Schubert.  I keep a p... 
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I was somehow banned for the past several days, and now this has apparently been correctedthank you TammyMy comment which was banned is simple.thanks to mahgister for introducing Nyiregyhazy there is a lot of him on youtube and i like some of it ... 
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Dances from Il Gattopardo. I see old man Burt Lancaster dancing with beautiful young Claudia Cardinale and jealous Alain Deloit watchinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb0IlSBFVt0 
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petei gave up on lp's, too much trouble to keep cleanand i gave up on cd's because i could not keep track of themi keep everything on a hard driveand it easy to locate a composer, a musician, a particular piece of musicI use a program "qBittorrent... 
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newbeeSokolov is perhaps my favorite of all pianists now performing, have never heard him live.I have downloaded dozens of his recordings including the two you mention.I never tire of some of his recordings, e.g., Couperin.Unfortunately, most of h... 
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newbee et alI share your appreciation for "Les Annees" and Lazar Berman.I think my favorite recording of "Les Annees" is by Ciccolini. From 1961 & 1969, on EMI 
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Yes indeed, love Helene Grimaud.Her 5 cd collection (Brilliant Classics)Water (2016)Her collaborations with Sol Gabetta and with Mojca Erdman.Thanks for the tip about Memories, will try to find that.I have been listening to a lot of Lazar Berman, ... 
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Happy New Year allnow listening to Imogen Cooper, Brahms Theme and Variations from String Sextet, Op. 18wonderful, and I thought I did not like Brahms!Chandos 10755 
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my latest "discovery"Victor Ryachikov plays Mikhail Glinda, Complete Piano Music (3 cd)Ryachikov writes:For a long time the works that Glinka wrote for piano have been considered methodical and suitable only for study at music schools. I believe t... 
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JimI share your views on death of classical composition, about Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich.  I download modern composers, and delete them.I had a teacher who said "if it is not in tune, and it is not in time, then it is not music".I also agree t...