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Philip Peters <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 00:40:40 +0100
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Roger Hecht wrote:

>I've heard the piano concerto a while ago.  It was paired with Korngold's
>left hand concerto.  I don't remember details, but one reviewer's notion
>that the Marx concerto sounded as opulent, Hollywood style, as anything
>Korngold wrote for the movies kind of fits.  Big, lavish, flashy.
>Generally, I don't like this kind of thing, but I have to admit there
>was enough color to the harmony to interest me.

He wrote some songs which are not bad at all.  Welitsch recorded seven of
them accompanied my the composer on an album which I have on vinyl and of
which the rest is devoted to Brahms songs.  Moreover I have a radio tape by
Dorothy Dorow of some ten songs.

Philip

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