In a message dated 3/18/2008 11:18:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, Lov writes:

> I do not like downloads either. I still have many LPs. Besides, I
> practice the piano for hours daily so I listen to myself.
>

Well, I _don't_ practice -- though I need to start again -- accompanying this
competition this past weekend made me realize how much my technique has
frayed for sightreading purposes! (The problem is, of course, that 90% of the
time,
I'm playing music -- songs or arias -- that I already know, and they're sort
of in muscle memory already.) A few lessons with a teacher will put me on the
right track for practicing -- I'm always afraid of building tension problems
in!

But I have a similar reaction as you do, about playing all day. Since I play
the piano in some form for most of my living -- and I never really cared for
the piano's sound to begin with (my great love was, and still is, the
orchestra) -- I almost never listen to solo piano records! Concertos, yes.

BTW -- I just heard a terrific CD -- an all-Schumann program with Thomas
Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (BIS). Absolutely first-class. My
review should appear in "Time Out/New York" in a few weeks.

SFV


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