Don Satz wrote:

>Actually, I can only think of one version that I disliked - R.
>Serkin/Ozawa on Telarc.  Serkin made numerous mistakes at the worst times
>for my taste, and Ozawa must have been on a mental vacation.  Avoid this
>set.

The sad thing is that Serkin (Pere) was way past it at the time these
recordings were made.  Indeed, they -- and the Mozart concertos with Abbado
-- should also never have bee made.  I last heard Serkin in Carnegie Hall
for this 75th birthday, and this was an outstanding concert, a great homage
to the artist and his central European repertoire.  If you want to remember
the artist in his (still) prime, go for that recording, or his earlier
disks with Bernstein and Szell.  But by his eighties, Serkin was no longer
Serkin.  Why -- does anyone know -- did he agree to make these recordnigs,
which do his legacy no favor?

Eric Kisch