Felix Delbruck ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Has anyone heard Schnabel in the Brahms concerti? By all accounts they were
>very much beyond him technically by the time he recorded them, but they may
>be interesting
>as interpretations.

I have both:  the 1st with Szell and the 2nd with Boult.  I'm not sure I'd
entirely go along with your "by the time he recorded them":  Schnabel never
had the technique of a Richter or Horowitz.  The 1st is, IMHO, the less
successful - he simply isn't the right kind of pianist for it.

The 2nd, OTOH, I enjoy greatly - although this was the first recording
of the work I ever owned, so....

Deryk Barker
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