Donald Dougherty writes:

"Speaking of Brendel, I have a copy of his newest recording "Schubert
Piano Sonatas D575, D959 & 960.  These haven't to my knowledge been
released yet in the U.S., but will be later this month. The number is
Philips456 573-2.

"These are extraordinary performances of these great, late Schubert
sonatas.  All performances are live, given at various venues over the
past three years. I would recommend them to all Schubert lovers and
all admirers of Brendel.  His interpretations of these works have
matured greatly over the years."

The latest from Philips:

ALFRED BRENDEL
14 & 15 April in Chicago, USA; Poetry reading (14), Recital (15),
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven
16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27, 28 April in Boston, USA; Beethoven Concerto
Cycle
21 May at the Herkulesaal in Munich, Germany; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
23 May at the Theatre du Chatalet in Paris, France; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
27 May at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
30 May at the Festival Hall in London, UK; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
3 June in London, England; Liederabend/Goerne
6 June at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, France; Liederabend/Goerne
7 June at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Liederabend,
Beethoven, Schubert
13, 14 June at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Chamber
music
16 June in Feldkirch in Germany; Chamber Music
18 June in London, England; Chamber music
19 June in London, England; Poetry
21 June in Edinburgh, Scotland
23 June in Aldeburgh, England
25 June in Amsterdam, Netherlands

MITSUKO UCHIDA
3 April at the South Bank Centre in London, UK; Mozart Concerto K413t
12 April at the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama, Japan; Chopin Sonata
No 3, Schubert, Debussy
15 April at the Symphony Hall in Fukuoko in Japan; Chopin Sonata No3,
Schubert, Debussy
18 April at the Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan; Chopin Sonata No3,
Schubert, Debussy
27 April at the Carnegie Hall in New York, USA; Chopin Sonata No3,
Schubert, Debussy
18, 19, 20 May in Los Angeles, USA; Bartok with Eas-pekka Salonen
15, 17 June at the Angelika Kauffmann Seal in Hohenems in Austria;
Recital - Schubert, Berg

ZOLTAN KOCSIS
2 April in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Bartok/Kocsis, Sibelius, Dvorak
10 April in Milan, Italy
22 April at The Forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco; Bartok
29 April at the Theatre de Chatalet in Paris, France
6 May at the Theatre de Chatalet in Paris, France; Beethoven Symphony
2, Mozart Piano concerto No 27

March 2001 New Releases in U. S.


Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky
Music of Robert Schumann

Adagio and Allegro, opus 70
Fantasiestucke, opus 73
Romances, opus 94 (no. 1 only)
5 Stucke im Volkston, opus 102
Marchenbilder, opus 113 (no. 1 only)

   DG 289 469 524
   (This disc also includes the Schumann Concerto for Cello with the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.)


Martha Argerich
Live from the Concertgebouw 1978/1979

Robert Schumann: Fantasiestucke, opus 12
Maurice Ravel: Sonatine and Gaspard de la nuit

   EMI 5 57101, total time 51:30


Szymon Goldberg and Radu Lupu

Franz Schubert: Sonatas for Violin, D 384, D 408, D 385, and D 574
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in C, D 934

   Decca 289 466 748
   (This is a "Double Decca" 2-disc set.  Three of the pieces on this
disc were previously released on CD.  The set also includes the
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata with Maurice Gendron, cello, and Jean
Francaix, piano.)


Not yet in stores is volume 7 of the DOREMI series of Sviatoslav
Richter Archives, an all-Schumann disc featuring Nina Dorliak.  This
title was scheduled for release in America on March 6th.  It is
currently available from Allegro Music (http://www.allegro-music.com)
and is expected to be in stores soon.

From Valour:


Here is a list of items added to the Nikolai Lugansky Web Site during
the month of February:

1. A translation of an article from the online music journal,
""Altamusica.com", dealing with Lugansky's fame:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/fame.htm

2. A translation of an article/interview from "Telerama", describing
Lugansky's stagefright and other facets of his personality:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Star_of_Russia.htm

3. A translation of an article/interview from "Diapason", in which
Lugansky talks about music which is close to his heart:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Musique_du_Coeur.htm

4. Links to 17 sound clips from Lugansky's new CD of Rachmaninov
Preludes and Moments Musicaux:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/New.html

5. Links to 27 sound clips from Lugansky's Chopin Etudes CD, plus a
link to a previously undiscovered review:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/Score.html

6. Newly-created or re-designed pages featuring colourful
illustrations and sound clips:

Rachmaninov Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.5
http://lugansky.homestead.com/Moderato.html

Rachmaninov Etude Tableau Op.39 No.6 - Little Red Riding Hood
http://lugansky.homestead.com/Wolf.html

Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov - Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
(with animated graphics)
http://lugansky.homestead.com/midsummer.html

Mozart : Concerto K466
http://lugansky.homestead.com/Mozart.html

Chopin: The Poor Sad Angel
http://lugansky.homestead.com/Chopin.html

Schumann: First Piano Sonata
http://lugansky.homestead.com/Aria.html


7. Updated News page:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/News.html

8. New Image Gallery:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/Images.html

9. New Sound Library :

http://lugansky.homestead.com/sound.html

10. New reviews :

http://lugansky.homestead.com/Review.html


IF YOU COME ACROSS ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST
TO OTHER SITE VISITORS, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT:
valour@...   or   valour@...

Thank you !

Valour

Site-owner
The (Unofficial) Nikolai Lugansky Web Site
http://listen.to/lugansky

===================================

Diplo65 writes re: Brendel's schedule:

He's also playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Monday,
April 9 at 7:30.

From Philips Classics:

ALFRED BRENDEL
1 March in Brussels, Belguim; Mozart/Hollinger
3 & 4 March in Koln, Germany; Mozart/Hollinger
10 & 11 March at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria; Schumann/Rattle,
LSO & Sir Colin Davis
12 March at the Musikverein in Prague, Czech Republic;
Schumann/Rattle, LSO & Sir Colin Davis
14 & 15 April in Chicago, USA; Poetry reading (14), Recital (15),
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven
16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27, 28 April in Boston, USA; Beethoven Concerto
Cycle
21 May at the Herkulesaal in Munich, Germany; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
23 May at the Theatre du Chatalet in Paris, France; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
27 May at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.
30 May at the Festival Hall in London, UK; recital:
Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven.

ZOLTAN KOCSIS
2 April in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Bartok/Kocsis, Sibelius, Dvorak
10 April in Milan, Italy
22 April at The Forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco; Bartok
29 April at the Theatre de Chatalet in Paris, France
6 May at the Theatre de Chatalet in Paris, France; Beethoven Symphony
2, Mozart Piano concerto No 27

MITSUKO UCHIDA
6, 7 March at the Wiener Konzerth ausgesellschaft in Vienna, Austria;
Mozart piano concerto
17 March at the Alte Oper in  Frankfurt, Germany; Mozart piano
concerto, Bartok
18 March at the Kolner Philharmonie in Cologne, Germany; Mozart piano
concerto, Bartok
21 March at the Kultur und Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Germany, Mozart
piano concerto, Bartok
24 March at the Radio-Philharmonie Hannover in Hannover, Germany;
Mozart piano concerto
27 March at the 'Sala Verdi' in Milan, Italy; Mozart piano concerto,
Stravinsky
30 March at the Auditorio S. Cecilia in Rome, Italy; Haydn, Bartok
quartet, Mozart piano concerto
31 March in Florence, Italy; Haydn, Bartok quartet, Mozart piano
concerto
3 April at the South Bank Centre in London, UK; Mozart Concerto K413t
12 April at the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama, Japan; Chopin Sonata
No 3, Schubert, Debussy
15 April at the Symphony Hall in Fukuoko in Japan; Chopin Sonata No3,
Schubert, Debussy
18 April at the Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan; Chopin Sonata No3,
Schubert, Debussy
27 April at the Carnegie Hall in New York, USA; Chopin Sonata No3,
Schubert, Debussy
18, 19, 20 May in Los Angeles, USA; Bartok with Eas-pekka Salonen

Albert Frantz writes:

"Jörg Demus and I are incredibly excited to announce that his second
recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier is now available exclusively
online through MP3.com.  Recorded 1968-70, this version was selected
in the current International Piano Quarterly as "the most
consistently satisfying of all" WTCs ever recorded in their survey of
50 versions in and out of print.

  http://mp3.com/wtc

"Further, the entire work is now available for *free* download, and
this is the only means of acquiring this wonderful performance, which
is a first for a major classical release.  I wish to comment that, as
wonderful as this performance is, Demus's new version, recorded just
last year and not yet released on CD, makes it sound like a Czerny
exercise in comparison.  I get goose-bumps all over listening to the
new performances - the C# minor from Book I is utterly sublime - and
I literally get tears in my eyes whenever I hear it.  It's really
some of the most awe-inspiring music making I've ever heard; there's
something divine about the whole thing.  I'll have the first disc
online before long, so hold on to your seats ...  Collectors will
want both performances, of course."

Amador Cuesta writes:

Grigori Sokolov will be giving one perfomance next Tuesday, January
30th, starting the 2001 "Ciclo de grandes intérpretes" (Cycle of
great pianists), in the National Music Auditorium of Madrid. This
cycle will include  Mikhail Pletnev (March 22nd), Krystian Zimerman
(May 26th), Murray Perahia (June 5th), Maurizio Pollini (November
6th) and Christian Zacharias (November 13th), among others.

For more information please visit:

http://www.scherzo.es

Scherzo is the leading Spanish classical music magazine and the
organizer of the cycle, now in its sixth year.


Martha Argerich will perform with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Orchestra, on February 21, 22, 23 and 25.

For more information about this, please visit:

http://www.concertgebouworkest.nl

From Valour:

1. Nikolai Lugansky will be giving five performances over three days
at the Nantes Music Festival (January 26-28th).

2. Lugansky is featured in the February 2001 issue of the French
music magazine "Diapason". There is an excellent two-page interview
and a photograph of the pianist. There is also a brief mention of his
new CD.

3. Nikolai Lugansky and Vadim Rudenko will be featured in a programme
on Netherlands Radio 4. The time of the broadcast is 1:00 pm GMT, or
2:00 pm Dutch time on 29 January 2001. They will play works by
Rachmaninov, Poulenc, Lutoslawski and Ravel. This performance was
originally recorded in February 2000. There may be a simultaneous
WEBCAST of this programme. For details, consult the Lugansky website.

4. On  February 2, 2001, Lugansky will play a concert in Utrecht,
Netherlands. (Mozart piano Concerto No.21)

5. On February 4, 2001, Lugansky will give a concert in Paris.
(Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4)


For more information, consult the Lugansky News Page at :
http://lugansky.homestead.com/news.html

Or visit the Lugansky Discussion Forum at:
http://pub14.bravenet.com/forum/show.asp?usernum=1176212199&cpv=1

If you see any other items in the press/media that may be of interest
to Lugansky's admirers, or if you wish to share your impressions of
Lugansky's recordings /performances, please contact the site owner at:

valour@...

or

valour@...


Thank you !

Valour
The Nikolai Lugansky Web Site
http://lugansky.homestead.com

Richard Sauer writes:

"I have an LP from a mysterious German source (Best.-NR 9004
Schallplattenvertrieb Munchen) by an equally mysterious performer:
Franz Hummel.  Mr. Hummel plays Liszt's Sonata -- and this has to be
the driest performance of the B-minor sonata I have ever heard.  Not
a trace of legato playing.  The Grandioso in 3/2 isn't grandioso, but
the playing is extremely clean and clipped.  And when it returns
triumphantly in triple forte at the end of the work Hummel isn't
triumphant.  He doesn't even appear to be aware of what's happening
in the sonata.  When he finishes playing you get the impression that
he just ran out of notes to play.  However there is some clean, rat-a-
tat-tat playing."

R. Sauer

David Menezes writes:

"I was at Freddy Kempf's recent Wigmore Hall [ London ] recital where
he played the complete 'Etudes d'execution Transcendante' by Liszt.
I was wondering if anyone else saw the concert and had any views they
would care to share, and if anyone knows whether he plans to record
the set?"

From Allan Gotthelf.

On Tuesday, January 16th, at 8 pm, at the new Philadelphia Convention
Center, 13th and Cherry, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will
host Louis Lortie in a performance of the Chopin Etudes (both opuses;
I don't know if trois nouvelles etudes will be included).  Tickets,
including the pre-concert talk, are $19 each; seats are reserved.

The pre-concert talk for this recital is given by David Dubal.  It
will start at 7 pm expected to last 30-45 minutes.

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society can be reached at (215) 569-
8587.  Various ways of securing tickets, and the year's program,
which has some outstanding chamber groups and some very talented solo
pianists (e.g. Garrick Ohlsson, Feb. 13th; Vladimir Feltsman and
Christian Zacharias in March), may be had at www.pcmsnet.org.

John Grant writes:


"My WTC 1 is online, complete, and ordered from Prelude 1 to Fugue
24.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/42/john_lewis_grant.html

All opinions are welcome.  Indeed, I need feedback of any kind.

"Many of the pieces need work.   I do a reasonably good job with
preludes 8, 10, 12, and 13.  So the listener might profitably start
with these. Fugues 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13 are satisfactory.   I'm not at
all happy about the C major and C# minor fugues, to cite just two
examples.  They, and others, need work, which I will do when my law
practice permits.

"As always, I re-think various preludes and fugues along the way,
such as the C major Fugue, and I expect to have it, and others that
I'm not entirely happy with, replaced ASAP.

"Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II I have moved to a completely
different site, but still in mp3.com.   I am currently adding
preludes and fugues from Book 2 to it.

"I should note that there is much about mp3.com that I don't like,
but it is the 'only game in town,' so I am stuck with it."

John Grant

Here is an exciting "first release" from one of the Great Pianists:

Walter Gieseking recorded 27 of the 32 Beethoven Sonatas in 1949 and
1950 for Radio-Saarbrucken.  (He only recorded eleven of the Sonatas
for EMI.)  Now Tahra Records has collected these in a seven-CD set,
to be released in America this month.  (The missing Sonatas are
numbers 4, 5, 7, 20, and 22.)

Catalog number TAH 394.400, distributed by Harmonia Mundi.

Nikolai Lugansky's schedule for the coming year has been placed on a
web page by Valour:

http://www.egroups.com/files/greatpianists/Schedule_to_2002.htm

> You gentlemen wouldn't by chance have the label and catalog number for this
> incredible find, now would you?

> > I agree with Jonathan's remarks in another posting concerning this
> > sonata, but if you can ever grab that CD, listen to the other Sonata
> > of opus 27, the Mondschein, on a live CD from Carnegie Hall 1965 by
> > Gilels! I listened to it the past few days and the 1st movement is
> > one of the most breathtakingly beautiful Beethoven playing I know!
> > Maybe Gilels is even superior to his later studiorecording. The whole
> > CD is pretty awe-inspiring with some celestal Ravel as well!
> >
> > Willem

   I used my searchpage's searchboxes for several places and they all
have this set, some with longer waiting periods than others and with
slightly differenet pricing.   It was put out by Music & Arts and says it
was Carnegie '69 actually.  I don't know if that's yet another CH recital
but he does play the Op. 27 on it.  And it's readily available.

   In the Amazon searchbox, on their site, or cycling through my
searchboxes,  just put in  ' gilels carnegie ' and it will bring it right up.
Same for the most of the others, though some, like MyMusic-Canada
will take only the performer's last name for reliable searches.

   - Andrys

http://andrys.com/books.html - Search sheet music, videos, CDs
http://andrys.com/books.html#dvdexpr - Classical Music DVDs
http://andrys.com/coupons.html - Coupons, Sales

Simon Wasserman writes:

This is a response to the March postings on Chopin's B minor sonata
by Leslie Mantrone and Miriam Fleer. I have heard a great many
readings, both live and recorded, but there are a few recordings
which are really satisfying. Fortunately I have found some.

One of my favourites has always been the long-deleted DG recording by
Vasary (by far the best of his DG Chopin recordings, imho). The first
movement has the ideal balance between the heroic and the lyrical,
and seems almost to play itself. There is a wonderful feeling for
colour, but none of the bluster or synthetic rubato one so often
encounters. The last movement has a rare sweep with a tremendous
impetus from start to finish.

The Rubinstein is not bad, but only in comparison with most others. I
am at a loss to understand how the scherzo was ever passed for issue,
given the abundance of wrong notes. Was this really the best he could
do?

If the Vasary has one shortcoming, it is in the scherzo, which is
less brilliant than some. For this individual movement, I have heard
few recordings that come close to either Kapell or Lipatti in their
mercurial perfection. The rest of Lipatti's performance fails to
excite me as it has so many critics. I have the distinct impression
that Lipatti was at his best with an audience. I have long felt that
one of the keys to good Chopin playing is spontaneity (allied with
discipline in the matter of rubato). There is an improvisatory
element which is so easily killed by wilful or exaggerated phrasing.
I have the impression that Lipatti was not sufficiently relaxed in
the confines of the recording studio to be able to realise this
aspect of Chopin perfectly (his live recordings are another matter).
Kapell, on the other hand, turns in a reading which joins Vasary in
my pantheon.

Two other recordings which can be mentioned in this company are
Joseph Hoffman in the the first movement (he seems not to have
recorded the rest) - his reading has the elusive improvisatory
element to perfection - and Gioumar Novaes, whose VOX recording I
have only heard recently for the first time. She has a few old-
fashioned mannerisms, but, as with Hoffman and Vasary, her first
movement has that rare feeling of completeness and feeling for
overall structure.

F R E E    C O N C E R T

Jed Distler
Composer/Pianist

Donnell Library Center
West 53rd Street between Sixth and Fifth Avenues

Monday January 8th, 2001
2:30 P.M.


Robert Schumann    Arabeske, Op. 18

Lois V Vierk              Yeah Yeah Yeah

Virgil Thomson         Five Portraits:
                                   Louis Lange: A French Boy of Ten
                                   Karen Waltuck: Intensely Two
                                   Prelude and Fugue: A Portrait of
Agnes Rindge
                                   Hommage to Marya Freund and the Harp
                                   John Houseman: A Double Take

Jed Distler                 Assault on Pepper (for speaking pianist)


The program lasts approximately 50 minutes.

The archives of the Great Pianists list are again available to the
public.  You can find them at the eGroups web site.  The Calendar and
Files are also open.

This list no longer accepts messages directly from members.  It is in
"announcement-only" mode, meaning that only the moderator can send
messages.  If you have something that you would like to send to the
four hundred members of the list, please send it to the list owner
for consideration.  Expect a delay of up to a week in the posting of
these messages.

I have his recordings of the Schumann Concerto - on Supraphon and Dorian.
Both are exemplary, but his Supraphon is one of my all time favorites - a
perfect melding of poetry and brilliance.  The Franck is likewise a profound
and moving performance.  I wonder if the remastering has improved the sound
much?  BTW, his Brahms d minor coupling on Dorian is another all time
cherished interpretation - and the contents of that disc (along with the
Schumann Concerto) are from live performances.

Happy Holidays to all!  Kudos to PG on abolishing mudslinging on these
pages!

JPrevite

greatly saddened to hear about Cortot- I also greatly admire his pianism-
did not know that Casals denounced him and that he was an ACTIVE collaborator-
I know almost all of his recordings, have many  and this info also brings a
conflict as to whether I should listen to them again-
I saw Gieseking in recital, 1956 in Stuttgart just before he died---


Arri

Paul Geffen has called for a moratorium on divisiveness and personal attacks. 
That is particularly appropriate at this time of the year.

Peace, shalom, salam to everybody.

Donald


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Anyone who wants to be on their announcement list can drop a post to APR at
the address on the post that I forwarded to the list.

Joe Salerno
Video Works! Is it working for you?
PO Box 273405 - Houston TX 77277-3405
http://joe.salerno.com
joe@...
also: joe_salerno@...
Fax: 603-415-7616
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Gray" <kinograph@...>
To: <greatpianists@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Great Pianists] New Releases from APR


> At 12:00 PM 23/12/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >I received this in the mail today, some of you may find it of interest. I
> >don't know if the attachments will make it through the list, so if they
are
> >not there that's why.
>
> I got the mailing too. I suggested they send a URL for their newest
updates
> rather than the entire files. I'm sometimes on a slow connection :-(
> However, these new releases aren`t yet on their site.
> I deleted the files, or I`d have offered to forward them offlist to
> interested parties.
>
>
> Robert Gray
> Kinograph, Montreal
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe send a message to: greatpianists-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>
> To send a message to the list owner: greatpianists-owner@egroups.com
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>
>

At 12:00 PM 23/12/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I received this in the mail today, some of you may find it of interest. I
>don't know if the attachments will make it through the list, so if they are
>not there that's why.

I got the mailing too. I suggested they send a URL for their newest updates
rather than the entire files. I'm sometimes on a slow connection :-(
However, these new releases aren`t yet on their site.
I deleted the files, or I`d have offered to forward them offlist to
interested parties.


Robert Gray
Kinograph, Montreal

I received this in the mail today, some of you may find it of interest. I
don't know if the attachments will make it through the list, so if they are
not there that's why.

Joe Salerno
Video Works! Is it working for you?
PO Box 273405 - Houston TX 77277-3405
http://joe.salerno.com
joe@...
also: joe_salerno@...
Fax: 603-415-7616

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Crimp" <orders@...>
To: "APR E-mail customers" <orders@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 4:15 AM
Subject: Seasonal Greetings & New Releases from APR

Dear Customer,

I am taking this opportunity to wish you the very best for Christmas and the
New Year, to thank you for your past support and to advise you of our Winter
2000/01 releases.

In all there are four new single CDs.  Two continue well-established series.
We have more Benno Moiseiwitsch, in this instance the first of two
all-Chopin recitals which includes the complete Preludes and the four
Ballades - No.4 is here published for the first time (APR 5575). Also
released is the long-awaited second J.S.Bach recital from Sergio Fiorentino,
this being Fiorentino Edition V (APR 5559).

APR also launches two new series.  In conjunction with the Cor de Groot
Foundation, we release the ³Cor de Groot Collection², the first issue being
an all-Ravel offering (APR 5611).   Finally, we have the first of an
occasional series devoted to ³Claudio Arrau in Concert².  The first volume
contains Chopin¹s Preludes and Schumann¹s Symphonic Etudes, both recorded at
Prague Spring Festivals (APR 5631).  Full details of all four new releases
are to be found in the enclosures which come with this letter.

We expect to have all new titles by the middle of January 2001.  As usual,
orders can be placed by mail, fax, telephone, e-mail or via the on-line
order facility to be found at our website
www.aprrecordings.co.uk
which also lists the complete APR catalogue.  Payment can be made by
Sterling cheque, payable to APR, or via Visa, Mastercard, Switch and Solo
credit/debit cards.  (I regret we are unable to accept American Express.)

With renewed best wishes,

Edwin Alan

Appian Publications & Recordings
PO Box 1, Wark, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 3EW, UK.
Phone: 01434 220627
Fax: 01434 220628
www.aprrecordings.co.uk
e-mail: orders@....
23rd December 2000





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Joe Salerno asks:

<< Will it be net cast?
  >>

It's very possible.  I just checked www.wqxr.com and under "Listen" they have
an "Audio Stream".

Allan

Will it be net cast?

Joe Salerno
Video Works! Is it working for you?
PO Box 273405 - Houston TX 77277-3405
http://joe.salerno.com
joe@...
also: joe_salerno@...
Fax: 603-415-7616
----- Original Message -----
From: <AGotthelf@...>
To: <greatpianists@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 3:20 AM
Subject: [Great Pianists] David Dubal on WQXR (NYC)


> I have heard that David Dubal will begin a once a week, one hour show on
> WQXR, the NY Times-owned classical music station in NYC, of comparative
> listening through recordings.  It is scheduled to begin on Wed., Jan. 3,
> 10-11pm and to run every Wed. at that time.
>
> Dubal was the mainstay (or a mainstay) at WNCN, I believe in the late 60s
and
> 70s, as long it it remained a classical music station, although I don't
have
> much in the way of details because I was outside the NYC broadcasting
range
> then.  I believe his programming then included some comparative listening.
> Maybe someone from those days remembers what his programs were like
> (musically speaking).
>
> I don't know if WQXR syndicates its programs for other stations around the
> country.  My understanding is that some classical programs are syndicated,
> e.g. isn't Karl Hass, whom we can hear on the Philadelphia public radio
> station, syndicated around the country?
>
> Allan
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ANDRYS WROTE: Personally, I think that all of a person's better
feelings can be channeled into expression through their musical
instrument while they may ignore the feelings of those about them at
times that others wish they wouldn't. An upbringing of almost all
your childhood years as the center of everyone's universe, with
everyone in awe of what you can do, the importance of it (to them)
and the catering to you can really create an inordinate (or ordinate)
sense of self vs the feelings of others around you. I think it has to
be difficult to escape this "training" without a lot of  shifted
reality...  Add the extreme expectations of those same people and
they become people who 'demand' something from you that you feel
compelled to give, to the standards drilled into you, so I would
expect some conflicts.

MY REPLY:

Oh, excellent, Andrys, and it works not only for artists/musicians,
but for academic child prodigies, movie stars, anyone who is in the
public eye and groomed for a certain career from an early age.

"all of a person's better feelings can be channeled into expression
through their musical instrument..."

This is brilliant. As Lincoln said, "The better angels of our
nature..."

Larry Davis
Atlanta

Similarly, Christian Sinding, the "Rustles of Spring" man, was a Nazi
supporter in Norway. Since he was quite old at the time, he escaped any actual
punishment after the war, but his Spring no longer Rustled in Norway quite as
much. Also, Manuel de Falla was a Franco supporter, which did not endear him to
  many of his former Parisian friends.

    As for Mayakovsky, the early Communists of 1920-30 had often a streak of
idealism, and he was part of a flood of revolutionary creativity. The deadening
  effect of Stalin came later. I'm not saying that Communism as such had much
  goodness in it, only that the artistic environment changed.

     There can be no doubt, I think, that PERSONALITY is expressed in piano
performance and in musical composition, but I fail to see how a person's ethics
can be directly expressed. Who was it who asked why the Devil had so many of
the good tunes? (no doubt thinking of the awful out-of-tune and slow and dreary
  hymn singing in church).You CAN hear Wagner's pompous and dogmatic personality
  traits in much of his music, but not, I think, his ethical and moral failings.

     I'd say that having an abundant supply of sex hormones can add much to a
  pianist's performance (Friedman, Rubinstein, Argerich...?) but whether this
does or does not lead to personal excesses is not reflected in the music itself
  - though the knowledge can change one's response.  (Liszt?)

                                            Neil McKelvie

>    I find his playing very poetic but sometimes he will stretch
something
> a bit much even for me,


Not exactly the same thing, but...

I once heard him, in a very informal setting, play a group of
nocturnes. As I was studying them at the time, I had brought the music
with me to follow along. I felt he was playing them too fast. I went
up to him afterwards to ask him about it. He frankly replied that he
had limited time within the scope of the recital to play so he
"adjusted" the timings just a bit.

Thought that was interesting.... to say the least!

AV