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Andrys Basten <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:24:58 -0700
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Deryk Barker wrote:

>OTOH the great Jascha Horenstein did have perfect pitch and once remarked
>that he couldn't bear to listen to Furtwaengler's 1944 Eroica, in his (and
>IMHO) the greatest performance on record, because it was not available ina
>transfer at the proper pitch.

Well, adding here re those musical colleagues who didn't suffer the
terribly hindering aspects of perfect pitch ...  Coincidentally, a public
Internet newsgroup note I read yesterday included this info on De Larrocha
and Sviatoslav Richter.

"Andrys Basten" <[log in to unmask]>

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