Steve Schwartz wrote:
>I too try to get as much Vainberg as recording companies will let me have.
>I think he's a fantastic composer - every bit as good as Shostakovich, in
>my opinion. Doppelgaenger was a bad choice of words. I didn't mean it
>perjoratively at all. It's just that Vainberg and Shostakovich share a
>general style - and Vainberg himself made no bones about it.
It's not too often that Steve's musical preferences converge with mine.
I also snap up every Vainberg recording available. His style is similar
to Shostakovich. Even if someone said that they were exactly alike, my
response could be "what's wrong with more Shostakovich?"
Don Satz
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