Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:


Deryk Barker asked:
>
>>Brendel? Has he recorded any Chopin?
>
>In search of something else, I found in a 1995 Gramophone catalogue a
>CD on Vanguard of Brendel playing polonaises and the Andante Spianato and
>Grande Polonaise.  It appears to be nla.  Some Vox material has appeared
>on Vanguard and I suspect that's the source of this one, ie early Brendel.

Oddly enough, just the other day I read a piece on Brendel (syndicated
from the NYT maybe?) in which he said that to play Chopin well you have
to make a lifetime's study of him, which is why he never plays Chopin...

Deryk Barker
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