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Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:Cheers Jared. Both you and Pepe can fly that particular flag together and educate me in the process!

I think Pepe does all the educating around here, especially when it comes to Opera... I just make a few grunting noises in the background...

this purchase is now about 6 weeks old, but sits patiently on my shelf for consideration in the very near future:



my knowledge of Brahms' solo piano works has been limited to Sonata No 3 and the Fantasias, so I will be looking forward to hearing them, and Katchen is (in my view) a very gifted interpreter in this repertoire.

Jared wrote:this purchase is now about 6 weeks old, but sits patiently on my shelf for consideration in the very near future:



my knowledge of Brahms' solo piano works has been limited to Sonata No 3 and the Fantasias, so I will be looking forward to hearing them, and Katchen is (in my view) a very gifted interpreter in this repertoire.

Artur Rubinstein's Brahms piano cycle is high on my wish list too.

Seán wrote:

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:Cheers Jared. Both you and Pepe can fly that particular flag together and educate me in the process!

I think Pepe does all the educating around here, especially when it comes to Opera... I just make a few grunting noises in the background...

That´s because I started at age 12 :-)

fergus wrote:

because I man simply can't ever have enough RS tone poems in his collection... ;-)

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:

because I man simply can't ever have enough RS tone poems in his collection... ;-)

Quite correct Jared....especially his own works conducted by himself!

purely on a whim....

and hot on whims heels...

I think that Jared has at least one of those and I think that one cannot go wrong with the playing of du Pré. I also think that Barenboim was a very talented pianist but both he and du Pré had and still have many detractors. I am sure that you will enjoy those performances.