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[Rob Potharst <potharst@cs.few.eur.nl>]

Dear Paul,

After you wrote about the Leon Fleisher cd I found it too. It is really
very good, especially the Bach/Brahms Chaconne and the Saint Saens pieces.
Do you (or anyone?) know whether the Brahms arrangement of the Chaconne
has been published? I would very much like to try it on the piano...

Thanks again for communicating your trouvaille Leon Fleisher,

Rob Potharst







> Dear F-minors,
> 
>      The recent thread regarding the Bach Chacconne (BTW, thanks Bradley for 
> your illuminating post regarding this- it really is wonderful having a chance to
> interact with people on this list that really know their stuff!), and the 
> current thread about Saint-Saens have got me wondering about pieces for the 
> ledt-hand only that Gould might have recorded.  The idea of him being able to 
> conduct an entire piece with his right hand is irresistable!  I know that 
> Saint-Saens wrote 6 etudes for left hand only that are nice enough, and Scriabin
> (owing to his chronic RH tendonitis) certainly wrote pieces for the left hand 
> only that Gould may have found attractive.  What then, if any, left hand pieces 
> did Gould record?  BTW, back to the the Chacconne, Bradley pointed out that 
> Brahms had made a left-hand only transcription of this (that was apparently  
> enthusiastically received by Clara Schummann after she had problems with RH 
> tendonitis later in life).  I'm happy to report that I've found a recording of 
> this. I picked up a curious CD by Leon Fleischer (on Sony) called "Leon 
> Fleischer recital", which consists entirely of pieces for left hand, including 
> the Brahms arrangement.  I certainly prefer the Brahms to the Busoni, although 
> the ornaments are all wrong.  I confess to never having heard of Fleischer, and 
> the liner notes have NO biographical information...does anybody know if 
> Fleischer even has the use of his RH?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paulito
> 
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