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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:39:27 -0500
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Richard Todd wrote:

>Interestingly, I got to know the keyboard music of Bach and the work of
>Demus at the same time, c.  1958.  I had a three-LP Remington set of the
>partitas, three of which were played by John Gillespe on the harpsichord,
>two by Demus on the piano and the remaining one by another pianist.

Ah yes.  Demus (and you're right; it was Jorg, w/ an umlauted "o", and not
Georg) on Remington, the $1.99 LP that was the era's counterpart to today's
super budget labels.  It was with Demus on one of those that I first heard
Beethoven's Opus 110.  A truly precious LP!

Walter Meyer

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