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Rugby

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Oct 25, 2007, 8:25:08 AM10/25/07
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Wonderful performance here, and live ( !!! ) :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HBYgX39NTA

One transcription that perhaps "works" as piano music.

Is THIS how Liszt sounded ?

Regards, Rugby

Charles Milton Ling

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Oct 28, 2007, 2:44:42 AM10/28/07
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I fervently hope not. Try Katsaris or Sherbakov.

Greetings to all,
Charley

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Charles Milton Ling
Vienna, Austria

abac...@att.net

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Oct 28, 2007, 1:24:29 PM10/28/07
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not sure why you like it........ I think it is pretty bad

AB

Rugby

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Oct 28, 2007, 2:36:23 PM10/28/07
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On Oct 28, 12:24 pm, abachr...@att.net wrote:
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> not sure why you like it........ I think it is pretty bad
>

Well, I have the Scherbakov cd of same,which is wonderfully played,
too, but Scherbakov's, even with the huge advantage of better sound
than the YouTube, is ,in comparison, simply too tame,IMHO. This
finale needs a bit of kick-ass,and real romp,a Toscanini-NBC approach,
similar to the approach I heard live from the Leipzig Gewandhaus when
they were in Iowa years ago, this YouTube Italian or Spanish pianist
having gotten a better balance of the nuance yet vigor, more Wagner's
description of the music as the "apotheosis of the dance." I can
forgive the banging in the enthusiasm of a live performance, and while
more refinement would have been desirable, still a wonderful reading,
IMHO.

Of course I've been wrong before, but at 59 thankfully can't often
remember when !

Regards, Rugby


Charles Milton Ling

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Oct 28, 2007, 8:24:55 PM10/28/07
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If you like it, don't let anybody tell you shouldn't! (But do give
Katsaris a try, too, if you ever get the opportunity.)

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