Wallace calls himself "an old fiddle player" who "cares a lot about music." One of his favorite musicians is Vladimir Horowitz, perhaps the greatest pianist of...
In a review published in the Montreal daily "La Presse" last month, journalist Claude Gingras mentions that the next two Palexa recordings of live recitals by...
Traveling and performing is a way of life for 22-year-old Anna Polusmiak of Highland Heights, who performed over the weekend at the Cathedral Basilica and next...
Has anyone listened to the Palaxa Leningrad recording? How does the playing compare to the Moscow recital on DG? Sean ... month, ... recordings ... Montreal...
I haven't heard the one on Palexa, but I have the one on Artistotipia which is not a professional recording. I would only suspect that the one on Palexa could...
The sound's not too great, but it's still fun to listen to. I think Kreisleriana was a bit much for him at that point. ... -- Michael Brenner 377 Eastwood Rd. ...
[ snip ] Toward the end of the '90s, after kitchen floods and near-fires, Novlet Ebanks (who had been taking care of my aunt during the day for a year or so)...
Hi, guys, just wanna tell you that i found a great website, they have large of transciptions scores...( i emailed to ask them to sand me all the list, and it...
How come I get the feeling my computer will explode if I click on that link? ... have large of transciptions ... was just amazing, i've got ... more.) ... ...
haha i think that might be they have too many data.. anyway, i just send the email to ask for the list, that will be more simple. by the way, if you wanna the...
One group member has expressed a concern that this site MAY be hosted by a former collector of classical music rarities with a bad reputation. I hope that...
Hello all, This is Fan from Germany, thank you for visiting my Website and be interested in my collections. well, I don't know why some think i am the "former...
Hi Fan, I am living in Germany at the moment, I am an English teacher... where are you-- perhaps we are neighbours? yours, Don (thekingofgermany) ... ...
I've posted a new file called 05.mp3 This file is John Browning discussing the Barber Sonata just before a live performance. He discusses, among other things,...
Most people know about this, but just in case...for some great vignettes about Horowitz (including the Moscow concerts and the Japan concerts), this is a great...
That's Franz Mohr's "My Life with the Great Pianists." His son, Peter, taught me how to tune pianos and was able to get an autographed copy for me. It's a...
I too have an autographed copy; my parents met him at an Andre-Michel Schub concert and he gave them an autographed copy. Amusing that he tried to convert two...
The selection process is shrouded in secrecy, although certain criteria seem apparent: a mix of artistic disciplines, the inclusion of men and women, minority...
Pianist Constance Keene Dies at 84 ... Keene, a Brooklyn native, began piano lessons at the age of four. In 1934, aged 13, she began studying with Abram...
Cortot's force of personality brings to mind another pianist who figured prominently in Mr. Perahia's life: Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz had a tie with Cortot,...
I had wrote about this once before awhile ago. My understanding was that Cortot felt as though Horowitz was primarily interested in a certain technical skill...
... JN: Re Cortot, a recent issue of Gramophone (Nov 05) has an article entitled, "Alfred Cortot The fine art of making mistakes" and a CD which includes a...
... "Alfred Cortot The fine art of making mistakes" and a CD which includes a startling performance of Saint-Saens' Caprice en forme de valse. in the plaskin...
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