jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados I will also say a big +1 for earl wild , I have loads of his discs and spin them regularly. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy, Thank's for the links to Laurent Martin's website , I shall give it a good look over tomorrow. It looks very interesting and quite diverse .Thank's again, Jim. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy - I have looked up the Laurent Martin recording of Alkan's Esquisses and find it to be a lovely recording both in the playing and in the recording ( thanks for th tip ). My friend at one time had Martin playing The Alkan 25 Preludes and I f... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy I think you and I have a love of the same things pianistically , I have allways loved the 19th century hyper virtuoso composer pianists and Alkan being one I am especially fond of . If you have the interest of getting more Alkan look at the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados If anyone likes the music of Alkan I would recomment a disc by Olli Musstonen on Decca playing Akans 's 25 Preludes and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes. I love that recording. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The world nowadays is full of talented pianists but it is what they do with the notes rather than the velocity of them that interest me. What do I think of Christina Ortiz well she is a very clean pianist but she certainly is no Martha Argerich. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @gdnrbobI I would hazard a guess that Il Duce is Mussolini and Maggie is that witch Margaret Thatcher, both equally obnoxious. | |
| Taj Farrant 9 Year Old Guitar Wiz! Where on earth does a 9 year old get a Gibson SG from ? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados JeremyI see where you are commig from but I shall not say any more on the Scottish Question as I don't want to get blamed for highjacking the thread so please all forgive me.On a completely different tone I see from twoleftears he has dusted off t... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados SchubertYou should see Ayr today Len it is a very sad place . The unemployment rate is huge and there are hardly any shops open in the High St. The pavements of the place are begging points for Romanians and Roma gypsies. I had a laugh the other d... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados SchubertFunny about Benedetti but she was educated in my hometown of Ayr and I have seen her many times in Ayr as well shopping with her mum. She went to a swanky private school for girls in the town and I am glad she won the BBC competition Young... | |
| Hearing phase distortion It's a great pity in a way that you can hear these anomalies so clearly as it must drive you nuts sometimes. I don't hear the shifts that you hear but absolute phase is the bug bare of my life , I hate it. The amount of CDs that we buy with revers... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert You are bang on about Julia Fischer she is by far the greatest violinist of ourtimes with musicality in every stroke of the bow. I can only name one more in her class and to me that is Maxim Vengerov who is every bit her equal technically... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I'm just listening to a very well recorded and executed Mahler - Symphony No 9 from Herbert Blomstedt and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. I have to say I am enjoying it as it is not as frenetic as Solti and not as leaden as Klemperer . It is very well... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Rana couldn't have anyone any better than Argerich to look up to. I always remember a quip by Barenboim who was having lunch one day with Arthur Rubinstein when old Rubinstein brought up Martha Argerichs name when they were discussing pianists. Ar... |