Seems interesting...
I'm a little dubious, though, about playing "Emerson" at high speed.
Isn't there a risk of making it a complete mess?
I think (like nearly every Ives' piano pieces) it requires a lot of
thought and careful attention throughout, by the pianist: some
passages are better if played at high speed, some are better when
played slowly...
IMHO, obviously
F.

--- In charlesives@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Cole" <tony@...> wrote:
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> A fascinating lp has come my way - Carl-Axel Dominique is a Swedish
pianist whose 1979 live concert in Stockholm contains the
swiftest/shortest Emerson and Alcotts I have ever heard - at 11:03
and 4:30 respectively they even beat Herr Kontarsky to the winners
tape....the sound is pretty murky & bathroomish, BUT, as in the case
of Aloys K., I rather enjoy the quick versions (& I suspect Charley
would have done too). Carl-Axel also plays a movement from Sonata
No.1 (listed as movt 5, but is No.4 to most of us), as well as Alkan,
Satie & a fantasy of his own - fascinatin' stuff, and I'd love to
hear him in the whole Concord, which he certainly gave on a number of
occasions. Tony
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