I find offered on ebay several discs from two series issued in the 1990's. One series is by "Russian Masters" and the other is by "Friends of Sviatoslav...
Russian Masters were private recordings from Ukraine(??) released by web order and seem no longer available. Friends of SR were private recordings sold by...
Dear Friends, After much travail, and considerable help from some of you, "Richter in the 1950s" Vol. 5 is now published. It is already on sale in the U.S. and...
Leslie Gerber Personal
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Oct 20, 2006 9:26 pm
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Hello to all of you: My husband was briefly a member of this group (1988 - 1990) which was organised by a man from Hexham in Nothumberland, England. The group ...
Dear Pat, So nice to hear from someone who remembers the good old days. I believe that John Berrie is the gentlemen to whom you refer. After his untimely ...
I read an anecdote that when David Oistrakh first toured America one of he went shopping to buy Art Tatum records. I wonder if Richter ever expressed any...
Dear group I would like ask if anyone could perhaps provide me with a good cover scan of the well-known dvd "Two Titans of the Keyboard" . Your help will be...
There is no information about Richter's reactions on Art Tatum (providing somebody has some information but not hearsay, it might be interesting) and I can...
Since we are on the topic, members of this list may be interested to know that there are 3 (rare) clips of Art Tatum on You Tube. 1) "Tiny's Exercise" (a brief...
Dear Gidrius, I did not know of this dvd. I'm highly interested and meanwhile I ordered it at cd-universe. It will arrive within a few weeks. And if by then...
the russian edition of Monsaingeon's notebooks were uncensored were they not ? who knows more about it ? which artists are the unfortunate topics of these...
... was simply bad Latin. Rachmaninoff is supposed to have been interested in Art Tatum, and to have attended some of Tatum's concerts. Perhaps Rachmaninoff...
Eric Yost
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Oct 25, 2006 12:44 am
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That is supposed to have been Vladimir Horowitz. I suspend belief in all these stories, until I see substantial proof that any of them occurred. Morton Linder ...
The Russian edition is censored, as the English is. But there are substantial differences and the list of topics, persons, fragments is long. It is told that...
To shift the conversation a bit, Horowitz, if I'm not mistaken, spent some time listening to Tatum 'in the flesh.' He was fascinated by Tatum's left hand...
Hello Cullan and all, First of all I'd like to thank Mr. Cullan Bryant for his kind words. Herewith I am authorized to notify that Russian Masters still alive...
No. It is more probable that Richter had listened with amazement, as Rachmaninoff had, after having heard the "piano duo" Art and Tatum in radio. But there was...
we all know Art Tatum.... why should Richter, Horowitz and Rachmaninoff be the only ones who did not hear his recordings ?... ofcourse they did..... sooner or...
The list of classical pianists who are rumored to have been awed by Tatum's playing includes Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Paderewski, Stravinsky, Previn....
I haven't been following this thread, but let me quote from Plaskin's biography: "A great fan of jazz pianist Art Tatum, Horowitz had improvised in the idiom...
Thanks for this - But just for the sake of a complete record, Gunther Schuller says, citing the liner notes to the Time-Life collection of Tatum recordings:...
Maybe the story about Rachmaninoff adoring Art Tatum is mythical? Perform a web search of the phrase, "Sergei Rachmaninoff, after hearing Tatum play, claimed...
Eric Yost
eyost1132@...
Oct 27, 2006 2:29 am
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Dear Leslie, ... So far I did not find any info (contents) of vol 5 on the parnassus website... I would be glad to find out what's on these cds. Thanks, Lou [...
Schuller, although sceptical about Horowitz, accepts that Rachmaninoff was a Tatum admirer. By the way, another (unrelated) famous probable legend is that ...
... I find this absolutely amazing. This is one of the most famous things Schnabel said, and it comes from his talks at the University of Chicago in 1945....
... Schnabel said, and it comes from his talks at the University of Chicago in 1945. "My answer is that now I am attracted only to music which I consider to be...
Dear friends, I would like to know your opinion about the recording of this work by Richter and the Borodin Quartet. I don't have the disc and I'm searching...
Paul, I have the LP and it is a wonderful performance. Compared to Serkin/Budapest, my favorite, it is a bit warmer and less driven, but with equal attention...
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