ajdstrider

these peformances are all they are made out to be. However, the recording is resonant and a complementary digital one is nice- I have kovacevich which is excellent and vogt. But my favourite, albeit also an analogue recording, is baremboim /barbirolli. In the slow movement it's as if the chords' descent is hesitating, reluctant, and aspires to climb - a srtruggle between the treble wanting to stay up and the bass chords pulling it down that is very poignant and makes a straight reading very bland.I urge anyone to hear this, it's cheap.Anyone see the film " the l shaped room"?it was the use of the d minor as background that made me love it ever since.

The main problem with the younger pianists is that most only dip in + out of stride for a portion of the time, the exceptions being mazetioer and lhotzsky, but even the latter is broadebing his base . Both of these have a left hand equal to ANY stide player recorded and of course are much better recorded than most. ANYTHING by either is well worth having and its a shame some of lhotzky's early work is out of print. "echoes of caroline" (mazetier + rhilhac) absulute joy stride duetting with 3 tracks with clarinet, well worth downloading the mp3. wellstood and sutton were full- time striders and all their records are well worth having,but sutton tended to repeat himself a bit, both had amazing rythmn and left hands. I have found some of willie the lion's stuff surpisingly cautious tempo-wise but admittedly caught when he was older.The most perfect playing is on hyman's "fat's waller " cd on references- only 1/2 pure stride unfortunately, alternates his own versions but amazingly recorded with blistering tempi- matched only by lhotzky in " carolina shout"If I could I'd lock him up and force him to play stride for food... stridemonster is superb as is "striding the classics " duet with lhotzky should hear what he does to chopin's waltz opus 64/2 at 2 mins in! Desparately seeking s/h copy of "watch out " by lhotzky btw, i@ll not die happy without it. Can't stetch a tenth myself but nor could rilhac and he somehow managed stride..