Don Satz responded to my post:
>... I should have stopped there, but I also got the piano concertos in
>Hyperion's romantic piano concerto series. I thought I was listening to
>a Liszt clone of lesser talent. I couldn't tolerate it, and I'm a very
>tolerant person. ...
>
>i think I'll play tonight those three Dohnanyi cds I do like, just to get
>the taste of the piano concertos out of my mind. Does anyone like those
>piano concertos?
I'm not mad about the second one, but I *love* the first. I much prefer
a version played by Balint Vaszonyi which I have on an old Pye LP (c1970).
The piano playing is more outrageous and John Pritchard, usually a fairly
phlegmatic conductor, goes for broke with exciting results. It did make
it to CD but I don't recall the label. The Hyperion version is rather
restrained by comparison.
Richard Pennycuick
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