Lionel Choi wrote:
>I recently acquired Maria Yudina's recordings of Bach's Goldberg
>Variations, and Beethoven's Diabelli and Eroica Variations, all on the
>Philips Great Pianists Series. I'm glad to report that I'm enjoying them
>tremendously. What inspiring readings! ...
Yudina I find an *interesting* if at times downright *outrageous*
pianist who sometimes seems to use hammers instead of fingers (good for
the Hammerklavier maybe?). Everybody is entitled to his own opinion but
there are limits ;) Schnabel overrated in Beethoven, good grief. And I
thought I had heard it all.....
Philip Peters (who sort of believes that Schnabel *is* Beethoven)