jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano RV I noticed your comment abut Milstein and yes I would definitely put him with the other two but I doubt if there was anyone who could play the sonatas and partitas of Bach like him his sense of structure and ability to land on a not... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados A great big yes to Julia Fischer for me , she is a supreme virtuoso and probably the best of todays bunch . She is dammed near as good on the piano also. My love affair started with her a number of years ago when she was playing the Dvorak Concert... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @cd318 Although not my favourite pianist by any means Mr Goulds 1955 Goldbergs given the Zenph treatment are now very enjoyable indeed and if I want to listen to Gould's account then that is the one I pick up. I am really saddened that Mr Zen... | |
| What does Roon give me beyond just Tidal HiFi? 3 years of angst and complete freedom when I pulled the plug.Oh by the way I now use cPlay which is streets ahead in sound quality. | |
| Alternative to Tellurium Q Silver Diamond XLR I use Telurium Silver on my rig and have tried a few other cables but none of them stayed . I have also tried a few cheaper cables and they all went back , no contest. Once these cables have broken in the last thing you want to do is switch off th... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados OK then I give up , which country ? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Belgium maybe Len ? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano Rv Thanks for that , it's not always one is allowed to play what one likes when you also have to earn living.I love the Well tempered Clavier there is so much to learn from them.I remember a saying by Busoni that was, Bach is the Old Tes... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano RV I always meant to ask you do you play the Goldbergs by chance ? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados That’s not all people like about Ms B. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Jeremy I remember in the eighties my friend and I travelled up to Glasgow to catch a concert with Fou-Ts'ong playing Tchaikovsky' 1st Piano concerto. When the piece stared he launched into the the opening with the wrong chord s... | |
| Mistakes I’ve made I've just been having a look at your system and noticed on your wall a copy of Moonrise over Hernandez by the God of Photography ,Ansel Adams , tell me it's an original !!! | |
| Mistakes I’ve made My friends know me well enough that if they did that to me they would be looking for an emergency dentist. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Len your lovely Gaelic message to me in Glasgow is "The Big Man's askin fur ye"As Robert Burns was want to say, Wha's like us naebody the're a' deid.Good Luck and God bless. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi Jeremy , I have been listening to that recording for many many years , Alkan certainly knew how to stress out a pianist. I don't see his name anywhere for live concerts and he doesn't seem to be producing any recordings either .Maybe he is now ... |