Bert Bailey wrote:

> Zeke Zubrow comments on the...
>
>> ...remarkable set of lectures Andras Schiff recorded for the
> Guardian
>> website about the Beethoven Piano Sonatas.  ...
>>
>>  http://tinyurl.com/624q7f
>>
>> The playing is pretty darned good too!

Hear, hear!  I came across these last year, burned them to CDs, and
listen to them in the car whenever I am on long drives.  I know Schiff
is not liked by many but, from these lectures, I can't figure out why.
His command of English exceeds that of most native speakers and I
appreciate both his superb playing and the historical and musicological
context that he gives to the music.  He does take a lot of wry digs at
Carl Czerny.

I also have a lot of the BBC Radio 3 lectures saved.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/audioarchive.shtml

Slatkin's four part series on Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Tone Color
as well as the episodes on Brahms First, Beethoven's Seventh, and The
Trout Quintet are very good.

--- Ravi Narasimhan

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