Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Chandos has just released the sixth volume in Louis Lortie's traversal
>of Beethoven's piano sonatas.  Although his cycle has not garnered much
>acclaim, Lortie will not be denied.  He is quoted as saying, "I don't
>think there's a problem with more Beethoven cycles."

I've heard several of them and they really just don't make any impression
- except leaving me wondering whose idea this was.  LL seems to have little
empathy with the music and his Hammerklavier is plain dull.

Deryk Barker
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