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Lionel Choi wrote:
>... To me, her Diabelli only confirms how overrated Schnabel is as a
>Beethoven interpreter, whose Diabelli is also on his
overrated??? Do you have his complete sonata set?
>Just curious: The liner notes mention that Yudina was not one who was
>into sweet-talking and pleasing the political dictators of her time, and
>also mentions that she was a champion of Shostakovich's music.
Check out "Testimony" at the National Library (several places -- the main
branch has two or three copies)
>I might be wrong, but I thought I came across somewhere (possibly on this
>List or maybe somewhere else in cyberspace) that like Goldenweiser, Yudina
>was amongst those who at some point joined the Stalinist camp and denounced
>and censured composers like Shostakovich and Prokofiev, ...
Shostakovich I believe always had a good impression of Yudina, though she
did strange things, and was, to his description a hypocrite.
Derek Lim
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