Amy Chastek wrote:

>About the most painfully, pathetic thing I've heard in the 90s was S.
>Cherkassky butchering PETROUCHKA.

Unless it was Liszt's Sonata on radio - in the 80s I believe.

>Did anyone of the naysayers hear his last disc (A.Rubinstein concerto
>w/Ashkenazy)?

Like the old and almost blind Rubinstein playing for the last time his
famous war horses - for tv.

>Why was Grammophone so high on him?

There is Tschaikowsky's 2nd - the best ever IMO.

>Bolet?

Did you ever hear his recital with Chopin's four ballads and four scherzi?
His recording of Liszt's Etudes Transcendentes? His Franck? And his ...?

>Donhoe?

I have no idea.  He also seems to have made an excellent recording of
Tchaikowky's 2nd.

Regards, Henk