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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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