Monthly Archives: July 2011

Liszt’s chaotic pendulum

The second half of the Chandos Singers’ concert opened with a Salve Regina by Liszt.  The rules governing the length of each beat, we were told, were very complex and the net effect on the beat was rather like that … Continue reading

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LPs batch 28: Chopin and other duplicates

This batch contained four miscellaneous Chopin discs: Pollini playing Etudes and Preludes, and two of Nikita Magaloff playing the Polonaises. Quite a bit of duplication because we both had significant Chopin collections. Another duplicate was Zimerman’s Schumann/Grieg concertos with Karajan … Continue reading

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