Bert Bailey responds to my notice about the Schiff lectures:

>A similar discussion-with-illustrations was done by Anton Kuerti for
>CBC Radio a few years ago.  But when his traversal of the sonatas
>came out they'd excised all his illuminating commentary.
>
>'Not sure there's any way to release such material in recorded form
>successfully, but I was disappointed.  Maybe this is where the Internet
>goes one further than more olden media.

I've heard a couple of the Kuerti's on the radio and I was very impressed.
I'd like to hear them.  When I listen back-to-back-to-back to a series
of performances of certain Beethoven sonatas, I am awed by how different
they can be.  It is an amazing statement about the composer (the depth
of his conceptions), the performers (valid interpretive choices) and
also the instrument itself.

Zeke

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