---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 3/12/02 7:10:29 PM Central Standard Time,=20 dm.porritt@verizon.net (David M. Porritt) writes: > Play Rechmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor without a sostenuto. Yes, I > . I'm not sure about this, maybe only the people who know it's supposed to be=20 that way. I went to a recital last Friday night where Andr=E0s Schiff played a=20 Bosendorfer Imperial Concert Grand. It was tuned in ET with the octaves=20 overly stretched. To me, everything sounded out of tune. He played=20 Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, the first movement with the damper pedal down=20 the whole way through. I could hardly believe it. At first, I thought it=20 must have been stuck but I saw his foot nailed to it. It sounded terrible,=20 the way someone who didn't know how to use the pedal would play it. I don't know how many of the audience could tell but he did receive a=20 standing ovation (but I surely didn't stand up except to leave). Now,=20 perhaps, the Broadwood piano of Beethoven's day did not have as long of a=20 sustain and this may have worked. The Bosendorfer did have one of the=20 richest lowest registers I have ever heard and very good sustain. Anybody have any ideas on why an artist of his supposed caliber would do thi= s? Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF=3D"http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r= e m m e r . c o m =3D-</A>=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/13/cd/26/43/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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