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William Stellar, anyone?
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« Reply #31 on: 19:59:16, 01-03-2007 » |
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Undoubtedly a star.
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« Reply #32 on: 20:13:22, 01-03-2007 » |
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Never heard of such names. I will never catch up with you people.
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« Reply #33 on: 20:46:19, 01-03-2007 » |
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By a strange coincidence, Message 31 earned me an extra star under my name.
Blimey.
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« Reply #34 on: 21:48:46, 01-03-2007 » |
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Congratulations, autoharp. Please don't stop. I don't know how many stars there are, but one should get as many as possible.
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« Reply #35 on: 22:07:12, 01-03-2007 » |
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Autoharp, I hope you had a celebratory beer of the Artois variety!
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« Reply #36 on: 16:06:06, 04-03-2007 » |
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In the year 1995 the pianist Andrei Nikolsky lost his live in an accident in Brussels. He was a very fine pianist and he made only a few CDs, mostly on the ARTE NOVA label. I still cherish his fine performance of Chopin's B flat minor Sonata. Nikolsky was very active in Belgium and I think there must be some more recordings of his talent in the Belgian radio archives. Let us hope that these will be issued in the feature, otherwise I fear that this great pianist will be forgotten completely.
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #37 on: 14:52:30, 05-03-2007 » |
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Jakob Gimpel, 16/4/06 - 12/3/89, Austrian-born US pianist, brother of the better-known violinist Bronislav Gimpel (source, Artur Jacobs - Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers c1990).
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'the poem made of rhubarb in the middle and the surround of bubonic marzipan'
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« Reply #38 on: 15:03:14, 05-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #39 on: 15:19:37, 05-03-2007 » |
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I never heard her play 'live', but here Cage recordings are wonderful, not that that was all she payed, of course.
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« Reply #40 on: 15:24:51, 05-03-2007 » |
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I never heard her play 'live', but here Cage recordings are wonderful, not that that was all she payed, of course.
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« Reply #41 on: 15:55:27, 05-03-2007 » |
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I've just fetched her recording of Books 1 and 2 of Cage's Etudes Australes (Tomato double album, 1979) from the loft and put it on. Damn it you have cost me nigh on £30 to order Books 1 to 4 on CD via Amazon marketplace. Volume 2 of her Legacy series looks interesting, too.
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« Reply #42 on: 16:15:22, 05-03-2007 » |
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I've just fetched her recording of Books 1 and 2 of Cage's Etudes Australes (Tomato double album, 1979) from the loft and put it on. Wasn't it issued on CD by WERGO? |
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« Reply #43 on: 16:34:58, 05-03-2007 » |
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Not in 1979 it wasn't.  Actually, though the gatefold sleeve is genuine Tomato, the LPs themselves carry Ariola labels with the legend "© 1979 Tomato Music Comapny Ltd." The 1999 3 CD set of Volumes 1 to 4 is indeed put out by Wergo, who put out a few Tomatao re-issues, including some Joshua Peirce et al. Cage piano works, etc. |
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« Reply #44 on: 16:44:55, 05-03-2007 » |
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Not in 1979 it wasn't. Actually, though the gatefold sleeve is genuine Tomato, the LPs themselves carry Ariola labels with the legend "© 1979 Tomato Music Comapny Ltd." The 1999 3 CD set of Volumes 1 to 4 is indeed put out by Wergo, who put out a few Tomatao re-issues, including some Joshua Peirce et al. Cage piano works, etc. Interesting. Many thanks, Bryn!  I must listen to that feature on Sultan again. In it, she spoke about her friends in Berlin in the 1920s. She knew a man there who was playing the music of Henry Cowell at that time! I always wonder what the audience (and especially young composers) must have thought of that music in those days. |
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