http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVXEv2Bfw04 [ c/o Bernie H. ] [ We see again that certain would-be biographers may be inaccurate. Horowitz didn't badly bungle...
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foosi35
May 6, 2009 1:45 am
So, news: My book's been published! "She and I: A Fugue" - seven years in the writing, and has all my soul in it. It's an account of an "amour fou" I...
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hans_sorgenfrey
May 15, 2009 11:03 am
I've just been listening to Mikhail Pletnov playing the Chopin c-sharp minor nocturne op. posth. As on many other previous occasions, I find his playing devoid...
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Hank
hank_drake44105
May 16, 2009 11:47 am
Virgil Thomson's oft quoted line that VH was a "master of distortion and exaggeration" was turned on its head by VH, who responded "so was Michelangelo, so was...
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dard2001
May 19, 2009 12:09 am
Consult the collected letters of Arturo Toscanini who wrote one evening after collaborating with H (I believe it was the Emperor Concerto): "Horowitz played...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 19, 2009 7:25 am
... Given the lack of commercial success of the original issue - and the current state of the CM market - I wonder why they might do that, particularly when...
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joe@...
captaincapstan
May 19, 2009 10:46 pm
this seems self defeating Mark. If all those companies go down the drain, what exactly do you think will happen to their archives? Most likely they would go...
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virtuosafatale
May 20, 2009 2:50 am
He also played with a mature sense of good judgement most easy to notice in close examination of his work on dvd. Common sense, some might say. Horowitz knew...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 20, 2009 6:30 am
... I think what would would happen is perfectly clear - the same as what happens whenever any company goes broke. The assets are sold off to the highest...
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Win
vinotroppo
May 20, 2009 4:51 pm
Sadly, this seems to be true. Here's an example: In 1970 a splendid documentary film was released about Arthur Rubinstein, called "Love of Life". It won...
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Derek Oppen
derekoppen
May 20, 2009 5:40 pm
that is exciting if sony is releasing the horowitz private recordings. where did you hear this?...
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Hank
hank_drake44105
May 20, 2009 7:09 pm
Sony is just reissuing the 2CDs of material that was released in the 1990s. Hank http://hankdrake.blogspot.com/...
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genlarus
May 21, 2009 10:20 am
This Mussorgsky-Liszt CD should be new in the Private Collection series: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7944747&style=classical The other...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 21, 2009 1:02 pm
... That looks like it must be his third public performance of Pictures; preceding the two released versions. Interesting... Mark...
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Greg Lile
rachplayer
May 21, 2009 2:33 pm
And possibly the Liszt Sonata from the same period. *DROOL*...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 21, 2009 5:03 pm
... I think that the case you describe - that of a single recording - is quite different from the case I am thinking of in which extensive discographies of...
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joe@...
captaincapstan
May 21, 2009 9:11 pm
the copyright mess might work the other way also - not that I am encouraging anyone in this manner. I am not an attorney. I don't play one on TV. But if...
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mkaykov
May 24, 2009 3:29 am
The Liszt sonata from 1946?????? daim!!!!!!...
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gabbriellino
May 25, 2009 3:18 am
... Alfonso Alberti, an Italian pianist who wrote a beautiful book about VH, had the opportunity to listen to the Private Recordings held in Yale University...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 25, 2009 8:59 am
... 1946 or 1949, I suppose.. Mark...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 25, 2009 9:00 am
... Does he compare the 1946 reading with the 1949? I wonder if there are any plans to have this book translated into English? Mark...
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gabbriellino
May 25, 2009 3:48 pm
... Alberti doesn't compare the 1946 reading with the 1949 one. I don't know if he could listen to all the VH recitals held in Yale (I reasonably think he...
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mkaykov
May 25, 2009 7:39 pm
well, i'd kill for a Friedman Liszt sonata...
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gabbriellino
May 25, 2009 7:44 pm
Hi everybody! Mark's post about the 1946 version of Liszt's Sonata convinced me to write something about a book published in Italy (Vladimir Horowitz, by...
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Derek Oppen
derekoppen
May 25, 2009 10:17 pm
fascinating. thanks...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 26, 2009 6:44 am
... Thank you very much for taking the trouble to translate this interesting information: I may buy the Italian books as an opportunity for me to brush up my...
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Ellie
edoep40
May 26, 2009 1:17 pm
dear all, thanks for letting me join your group. found you by hazard - was googling for information on tchaikovsky's piano concerto 1 B-flat Minor (one of my...
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Greg Lile
rachplayer
May 26, 2009 1:32 pm
Rest assured. . I think I've only ever banned one member in this group's near 10 years. Welcome! -Greg...
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Mark
amarknicholls
May 26, 2009 8:20 pm
... Welcomer Ellie, I wonder which version of the Tchaikovsky you came across?...If it was not the 1953 version with George Szell, then you are in for quite a...
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joe@...
captaincapstan
May 26, 2009 11:59 pm
There are 3, the 1941 studio recording with Toscanini, the 1943 live recording with same, and the live version with Szell referred to. My personal fav is the...
