jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador jeremy do forgive a stupid old man for his glaring mistake. I thought it was you who had seen Rachmaninov and I didn’t realise it was a quote from Earl Wild. again many appologies. Jim. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Oh jeremy you lucky lucky man having experienced Rachmaninov playing live. I would love to have been so fortunate but unfortunately he was already dead when I was born but I do consider myself very lucky that I have seen a lot of the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados +1 0n Wild-Horenstein , Rachmaninov Concertos too. I really think Wild was one of the most fearsome virtuosos of the twentieth century , he could be compared to ANYONE !! He had such an easy virtuousity that he made everything look too easy so he ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Just heard yesterday of the death of the grear Jessye Norman , she will be sadly missed . Hers is the best rendition of Strauss's Four Last Songs I have ever heard and I have my daughter primed to have Im Abendrot at my funeral. My first live enco... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Len I agree the Ravel is handled beautifully by Richter, if you are looking for a different slant on the Pavan please look up on Idagio John Williams and Julian Bream playing it on two classical guitars it is wonderful . well worth a ... | |
| Useful Idiots Yes the CB750 is a fine bike but it is a pile of rust in ten years time. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV,I am glad you are enjoying Rachmaninov's First with Pletnev and the Fischer's Mahler First. There is also a superb Mahler's Fourth with Fischer and the Budapest Forces also on Idagio and it is so beautifully recorded. I think that is also a sup... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano I couldn't agree more RV I think of Mahler's First as an obvious choice for a host of reasons. If he had only written that one symphony then he would still be procaimed a genius. I would also nail my flag to the mast with Rachmanino... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados If you will kindly pardon the phrase from a heretic Len , Amen my friend and have a really good weekend. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len , I do admire your faith but I grew up in a schooling system that was strict scottish prespyterianism and it was not a nice faith to young people.John Knox was pushed down your throat nearly every day as our savior from darkness. They just ign... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes I love his playing , I have heard him live a couple of years ago.He played Beethoven's 4th Piano concerto which was wonderfull and certainly a very big risk in one who is relatively young. I have a few recordings of his playing a host of thing... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I find Bernstein's Mahler too sentimental for me but I do like him in many other things though. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados How true Len how true, I shall have to look for his mass myself and although deeply sceptical of all religions I do admire pious men who do everything in praise of their God and are deeply attatched to earthly human beings. Bach and his contempora... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len and RV if you would like a good recommendation for a Mahler 3 with an older conductor how about Bernard Haitink with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks on BR Klassiks. Obviously the conducting is beyond reproach and the beauty o... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados As for Yuya Wang I really think like RV she could some day be one of the greats but I do wish they would stop sexualising these young female pianists and fiddlers as it really annoys me . You would like to think that these girls would be able to c... |