Gene Halaburt ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...  Ron Drummond, in his 1996 (?) ClassicalNet article "Ludwig
>van Beethoven Piano Sonatas: An Overview of Selected Recordings"
><http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/beethoven/psonatas.html>
>wrote:
>
> Of complete sets, I highly recommend Richard Goode on Elektra/Nonesuch.
> Goode has been praised in almost all quarters as perhaps the
> finest surveyor of Beethoven's sonatas since Schnabel.

I obviously inhabit the wrong quarters, as I don't recall hearing or
seeing anyone express that.  Better than Kempff, Nat or Frank (or the
alas incomplete cycles by Solomon and Gilels)?  Pshaw!

deryk barker
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