Hall Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote of Balakirev's Islamey:
>For the record, Berezovsky's recording on Teldec gets a rosette in the
>Penguin Guide and I've heard good things elsewhere about the recordings
>of Julius Katchen and Simon Barere.
Berezovsky's recording is pretty solid. I have not yet heard Bronfman's
but he supposedly uses a different version (?earlier). Barere is very fast
and exciting. The sound is dated. I've heard of the existence of another
Barere performance- perhaps an outake which is supposed to be better than
the one usually heard. Does anyone know about this? I learned of it from
Harold Schonberg.. Another worthy performance is by Panyas Lyras, a silver
medalist in the Van Cliburn Competition, when this recording was made. I
wish Ivo Pogorelich would record it. I saw him do it for an encore in a NY
recital.
Alan J. Briker