Ulvi Yurtsever ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Actually I've heard that GG overdubbed himself in some of the double
>octave passages in recording the Liszt transcription of Beethoven's fifth.
>He apparently did not have the Lisztian "shoulders and arms" technique
>required to play stuff like that.  Whether he cared to have that technique
>is of course a different matter.

I was unaware of that, although he certanily used overdubs on his Wagner
transcription recordings.

However, I simply wanted to point out that he was not a "studio performer"
if by that one means someone who can't (as opposed to doesn't want to) do
it live.

Deryk Barker
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