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RE: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Oh, the Beethoven perverse recording?  Yikes, I am not sure.  Probably I
heard it on CBC radio.  I will have to search that one out because
honestly, I do not think it made it to a CD record.    The Brahms
perversity is widely available and is a wild recording.  
 
Fred

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From: Etha Williams [mailto:diftorhehsmusma@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:34 PM
To: Houpt, Fred
Cc: Brad Lehman; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Houpt, Fred <fred.houpt@rbc.com>
wrote:


	I think that in order to (perhaps) move on from more discussion
(opened
	up by me) on the Moonlight, let us then close ranks and agree
that speed
	of playing is, at the end of the day, an esthetic.  It moves
some, it
	aggravates others.  We can't really derive an absolute here.  I
mean,
	sure GG's performance of Brahms Piano Concerto ranks as one of
the most
	perverse speeds ever attempted (in public) and critics were open
mouthed
	with horror/confusion, GG made his point, Leonard Bernstein made
his
	historic announcement to disassociate himself from his friends
	performance and we all moved on.  That Brahms is very odd to
listen to
	but we all survived.


Do you know where a recording of this performance (video or audio) can
be found? I am immensely curious, but have as yet only found a recording
of Bernstein's pre-concert remarks.

Etha


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