Henk van Tuijl wrote:

>Tchaikovsky is not "over the top" when played by someone like
>Rubinstein.

I appreciate Henk's comment and will keep it in mind.  My current feeling
is that it would be over the top even if Brendel and Norrington were the
performers.  However, I have been yielding.  I recently bought all T's
symphonies performed by Markevitch(1-3) and Mravinsky(4-6).  It's been
hard going - I cringe often.  I think I would have been better off if
I went for the ballets, and that's what I'm going to do next.  If that
doesn't work, I'll take Henk's advice.  If that doesn't work, I'm giving up
and considering myself the wiser for it.  Brendel and Norrington would be
quite a combination - I'd love to hear them do Dvorak's piano concerto.

Don Satz
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