Re: Leon Fleisher

On 1 Dec 2003 17:01:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Gavin) wrote:

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>> On 30 Nov 2003 21:05:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LaVirtuosa) wrote:
>> 
>> >I'd like to recommend Leon Fleisher's Recital disc of music for the left hand.
>> 
>> Yes, Val, it is very good. But when you listen to Barere play that
>> impossible Blumenfeld Etude, his fantastic abilities make Fleisher
>> come off as a good student, don't you think?
>> 
>> TD
>
>I've got serious reservations about Fleisher's Strauss-Godowsky Gypsy
>Baron paraphrase.  It's respectably proficient technically, although
>not fluent enough, but Fleisher is simply miscast in this music.  It
>doesn't lilt, there's no sense of fun or luxuriousness either in the
>sound or the interpetation.

I have always meant to ask him whether Peter Gelb held a gun to his
head when he made this record.

Like, WHY? It's a little as though he had decided to make a record in
drag, wearing his beard!!!

Shura Cherkasky he isn't.

TD