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| Classical Music for Aficionados RV I am so glad you are enjoying Gilbert playing the Goldbergs, I love his playing and the harpsicord is so well recorded also. Another thing he plays beautifully is Gaspard LeRoux's Suite in F Major.Len - I do love Schumann also, my favourite... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV I really do hope you enjoy Gilbert and on the E Mail side I am getting notifications fine. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Gosh RV you have now put me on the spot so I hope I don't disappoint you. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Oh and I forgot to mention Koroliov. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi Jeremy , Yes the interpreters for the Goldbergs is many and Varied. I tend to listen mostly to Dershavina, Levit, Perahia, Rana and Gould's 1981 version. My harpsicord version is Kenneth Gilbert. | |
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| Classical Music for Aficionados @Phomchick That is a superb recording and may I make a few suggestions, go for anything on the BIs Label these are seriously good recordings and I especially like Yevgeny Sudbin these days. To ease you in I would Suggest his Scarlatti Sonatas... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len , Oh how I wish I could travel because Leipzig and Berlin would be top of my list of places to visit. Did you know that the people who were at one time garnering information on Liszt could never ever find the grave of Liszt's son Daniel unt... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len after your eloquent speech on my hero J S Bach all I can say is "Amen".I too have the Gardiner book and although not always an easy read it is always an uplifting one. Bach is in good hands. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len you are spot on about Cosima she was a nasty piece of work, she even left her father on his death bed to go to her beloved Beyreuth and lord it over another of her beloved Richard's diatribes. She even stopped any of his pupils from coming ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy, I see where you are coming from here and I know tales can get messed up in the telling. My source is Prof. Alan Walker the official biographer of Liszt who has written three huge volumes on Liszt and his circle .It is probably in volume 2 ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len Going back and reading previous posts I had a good laugh about Saint-Saens maybe writing the Liszt Sonata , that was a scream. Did you know that the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony was dedicated as follows" To the memory of a great man Franz Lis... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Len we are now ruled by two buffoons , heaven help us. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV and Len, I am so sorry you don't like Liszt but I bow to your judgement on that. I on the other hand do like him very much, not so much his barn stormng works but his more introspective works. As Alfred Brendel once said if you don't like ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len You have me going with your Janacek recommendations I used to have Andras Schiff doing On an Overgrown Path and loved it but I lost it years ago. I used to do foolish things like loan records and CDs to people and never get them back becaus... |