Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>I was recently listening to Schnabel's late Beethoven sonatas (28-32), and
>for musicality they can't be beat.  His Hammerklavier has some noticeable
>wrong notes, the type of flub that many would now take the time to do over
>in recordings.

After recording a piece with a lot of wrong notes Schnabel was asked to
try again.  Maybe he would do better a second time.  After some thinking he
replied:  "Yes, I think I could play it better.  But I never would play it
as well."

Philip