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The Gulda (Amadeo 1967) is the most recent of a few great Beethoven cycles I've been playing since I got started in classical music early in June. The Kempff early fifties mono (I posted about buying it in this thread, never really played much of it until this year) was another - but I think my top favorite is Schnabel (I've got the EMI box, sound didn't bother me). Gould I found most enjoyable, too (not quite complete though), and also Solomon with the late sonatas (a little less so with some middle ones included in his ICON box). From Arrau, I have what's in his ICON again, and some of it was fine, I thought, but I found his Liszt better, and Mozart sonatas mo' better than his Liszt (though I do love Gould's Mozart sonatas, too - totally different, but wonderful). Rubinstein's Beethoven is kind of weird. His mid fifties and early sixties recordings are the best (speaking only of his few Beethoven sonatas recordings), but they're not quite up there with Schnabel, Gould, Gulda, Kempff, I think. Horowitz is pretty weak I found, but the few by Gieseking I've heard so far are again most wonderful. A lifetime of enjoyment? I guess so! It only started a few months ago and Beethoven (violin sonatas first, then piano sonatas, piano trios, string trios, the violin concerto a few other thigns) was played most often by a big margin in the first two months.

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Happy Birthday!

I never got around to dig his playing too much - but still, this is very sad news.

and also currently available on a Storyville 2CD set (paired with the worthwhile "Miscellaneous Miles" disc, previiously on Jazz Unlimited, which holds the entire famous Newport "comeback" set, the two live cuts with Bobby Jaspar and some more bits and pieces): http://www.storyvillerecords.com/default.aspx?tabID=2633&productId=27307&state_2838=2 can't find it on amazon but it's certainly there...

I fully understand that brownie! Still, I wish there were a market for books like that!

I heard that Girolamo LaRocca's great grand uncles (seven of them) had a great jass band in Sicily in the 1860s

love Wynton Kelly indeed, but have no idea if it's his birthday ...

Guess this one would make a good CD for testing then: Btw, no one asked about that here, but: I love Gould's six late Haydn sonatas very much!

well, it had it because the man shot him at it - simple!

it's been ages, but this music has stuck to my mind for over ten years now and I still love it!

Non-English speaking vocalists singing in English (especially Brazilians). Sing in your own language. I like the mystery of being clueless about what you are saying. Even if they're making fun of all the stiff upper lips in the audience?

But we're all luddites, aren't we? I thought, btw, for a long time, that word was a derivation of the Latin verb "ludere" (to play)

Yeah, we're still waiting for that book!

misguided ideology

Tatum, Taylor? The latter's squealing drum chair in RVG's studio?

obviously ... except for the "sorely missed" bit, that one is serious!

Very cool, many thanks for sharing!

that's how I'd pronounce it, too - I'd like to know from someone who knows though

the swiss-german-speaking part what about Don Moye? Do you pronounce the "e" at the end?

Patti Bown, I've often wondered ... as in "Brown"? Or as in "bone"?

Yeah, he gave much praise to the great and sorely missed Lester Bowie

Oh, I see! Recently got the old US BN CD of it, myself.

Odeon Pope sends his regards

Why spring if you've already got it? I got that one, too - and it's indeed quite alright. But it's nowhere close to "The Spice of Life" which I absolutely love! Is that first Cadet album similarly fine? The tracklist makes it look like it might be a mixed bag ...