Re: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

["Etha Williams" <diftorhehsmusma@gmail.com>]

Gah, never mind...I feel like an idiot. The Brahms is right there on
amazon...somehow I had convinced myself that I had already looked for it and
failed (possibly because I incorrectly anticipated it being difficult to
find), when in fact I had done nothing of the sort.

Etha

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Etha Williams <diftorhehsmusma@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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