Bernard Chasan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>First of all, I agree completely with Mr. Bailey's high estimate
>of Gerhard's Piano Concerto.  Concerning the Fourth Symphony, it is
>a formidable, elusive, yet fascinating work.  There is indeed a strong

I don't know the 4th, but I was at the 1967 Prom performance of the 3rd,
which I see from the note to the Chandos recording was the one for which
Gerhard prepared the stereo version of the tape.  I was impressed then
and was pleased to find that I still was when I got the CD.

Of course the fact that like Gerhard (and Shostakovich and Rameau and Glenn
Gould) I was born on September 25 has nothing to do with it.

Deryk Barker
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