In Reply to: Britten - Shaw! posted by rbolaw on July 15, 2015 at 14:32:47:
. . . sitting at a dinner. Von Bulow gets up and declares, "Bach, Beethoven, Brahms! All the rest are cretins!". So Moszkowski gets up, and, in a voice imitating Von Bulow, declares, "Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Moszkowski! All the rest are Christians!"
To your post however, Ceremony of Carols (on the Shaw recording you showed) is fairly tolerable for me. ;-)
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- Ever hear the story about Moszkowski. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:02:50 07/15/15 (6)
- :-) nt - rbolaw 17:07:37 07/15/15 (5)
- Still the greatest ever performance of "Britten". . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:26:56 07/15/15 (4)
- Believe it or not, Dudley Moore and Arturo Delmoni once played together - John Marks 09:02:55 07/16/15 (2)
- That's easy to believe - rbolaw 09:51:38 07/16/15 (0)
- "There were giants in the earth in those days" - Chris from Lafayette 09:40:00 07/16/15 (0)
- You bet I've seen it. - rbolaw 19:20:51 07/15/15 (0)