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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:51:11 -0500
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Michael Cooper wrote:

>What about Volodos' own arrangement of Mozart's famous Rondo alla Turca?
>Is there a score anyway? Does it deserve consideration in this category?
>
>An aside...  I think there are many pieces that you can take, and take
>two performers, and one performer will find it fiendishly difficult or
>impossible, while the other will find it not especially difficult, and
>other pieces for which these categorizations are reversed, for the same
>pianists.

And there is the tale of Schnabel playing a virtuoso passage by Liszt or
something similar and saying, "That's easy", after which he played a slow
movement of Mozart and saying, "That's hard."

Walter Meyer

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