William Valles ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Arthur Rubinstein recorded just about everything that Chopin ever
>wrote for the piano with one major exception, the Etudes Opus 10 and
>25. ...
Allegedly he had not the technique for them....he certainly bottled
out of the premiere of Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka
(which IIRC he commissioned) and it was given by Leo Sirota.
Deryk Barker
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