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In Reply to: RE: Yes, and not surprising posted by rbolaw on June 10, 2016 at 04:22:00
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since he had such rock solid technique and flawless intonation, and was praised to the skies by Bartok and Prokofiev, among others, for his performances of their music (and neither was exactly lightness and sunshine when it came to evaluating other musicians).
He made a few painful stereo records at the very end, and was struggling by the early 1950s, obscuring his earlier glories. Milstein called his 1942 live recording of the Kreutzer Sonata with Bartok the best ever.
Maybe that remark by Milstein was true at the time he made it too. These days, I might prefer Repin/Argerich or Pouty Lips with Tiberghien in the Kreutzer. ;-)
(Or, best and most unbelievable of all, Repin and Lugansky in a live Carnegie Hall performance. I've got it on a 24/48 DVD-Audio which someone - one of the perpetrators! - kindly sent to me, but I'd guess that it's no doubt floating around in the various pirate locales on the internet too!)
in the Brahms concerto with MTT and the SFSO. He can play, not surprising his Kreutzer Sonata was that good.
Safe to say Szigeti's and Bartok's 1942 effort has been surpassed at this point. Funny, I've read neither was satisfied with the recital. But I agree, it was a landmark event.
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