Jeffrey Hall ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...  I was reading a review of great piano recordings by the decade one
>time in an issue of Gramophone magazine and the author picked Katsaris's
>Beethoven 9th (maybe it was the whole set) as the best piano recording of
>the 80's.

Strikes me as an odd choice.  Not that I can think of many great piano
recordings from the 80s offhand.

Well, there's Dononhoe's Busoni Concerto - OK, not solo piano.  Ogdon's
extraordinary 4CD set of Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum? Gilels'
Hammerklavier and Op.109? Michelangeli's Brahms Ballades?

I'd prefer all of those to CK's Beethoven 9.

deryk barker
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