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Here's a good discussion from last May that's about to fall off the edge of the world, Flatlanders. What brings it up is just hearing Paul Lewis play Schubert's next to last sonata in A, D. 959, finished two months before he died, and being swept away by the raging in the Andante. Harmonia Mundi, with the last sonata, B-flat, D. 960, and I don't even remember if he plays the repeat! This is embarrassing, must be better...

Ahmad 5 for Art of Fugue and Musical Offering Andsnes 7 Argerich 5 Ashkenazy 5 Ax 5 Barenboim 4 Brendel 6 Freire 6 Goode 4 Hamelin 6 Hough 5 because he is so rich now Kissin 5 Kovacevich 5 Lewis 6 Lupu 5 Perahia 5 Pires 5 Pletnev 6 Pollini 5 Uchida 5 Sokolov 5 Thibaudet 5 Volodos 6 Zimerman 5 Lang -1 gone Andsnes +1 (Nielsen!)

<<Well, in part I'm going off of other criticisms of Schönberg. Usually Serialism is criticized for being "too rational", so how can Beethoven possibly be more rational?>> i think this might be a semantic argument. (about the words rather than the ideas) I have often heard that schoenberg and his tone rows are too 'mechanical' or 'calculated'. many people use...

A new arrival in the mail: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Claudio Abbado - Berlin PO

Thanks, Piso: I'll consider those eight chords beginning the passacaglia. I knew of the Sollertinsky death, and Schoenberg's grief. A friend's death certainly turned Poulenc around. Has anyone ever composed a minuet as a totentanz...a dirge in triple time? The sonata has come a long way. Reminds me of a Diego Rivera mural. Poulenc: Mass in G. Westminster Cathedral Choir/ O'Donnell (hyperion)

Furtwangler 9 Klemperer 22 Walter 93 Furtwangler +1 / Klemperer -1

Foss: "Brighter" means "pitch differences of certain intervals" the way I'm using it. If you want to use "brighter" to mean something else, fine. By my definition, you are wrong. I'm saying that "perceived brightness or darkness" is a misconception in this era of equal temperament.

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palJacky says: The hindimith Piano sonatas Gould. Nice one. Me -- Alexei Lubimov playing a Mozart sontata -- K457. Elegant without being too polite, with occasional energetic eruptions.