Re: BEETHOVEN SONATAS: Maria Grinberg

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...

>Little did I know that Melodiya had hired a member of the female
>wrestling team to perform these Beethoven sonatas. True crossover!
>This Amazon had a left hook that would have done in Mohammed Ali in
>his prime! Curiously rhapsodic in the early sonatas, very
>straight-laced in the middle sonatas, completely perfunctory in the
>late sonatas, Maria Grinberg is a prime exponent of the Soviet
>goose-stepping chop-chop school of piano playing. Unsubtle would be
>one word, crass would be another. 

"Unsubtle" and "crass", yet "curiously rhapsodic" and "straight-laced"?  I wish
I had found the early sonatas rhapsodic; to these ears they're rather bland,
blank performances, and I stopped at the third disc (courtesy of Arlecchino). 
Quite a good Brahms cto 1 with Rozhdestvensky, though.

Simon