Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Madge's 1983 recording was substantially shorter than Ogdon's.  JO's
>weighed in at 4 3/4 hours and I think GM's was just over 4.

Ah, my mistake, sorry.  I knew that they were quite different but
forgot which way the comparison went.

>Have you ever looked at the score?

Yes, and I followed it while listening to the Ogdon recording.

>I don't think an accurate rendering is physically possible by a
>single pianist.  The final page IIRC extends to something like six
>staves.

I can understand the performer fudging those parts of the piece, but I'm
talking about mistakes all the way through.  (I also realize that the score
has a lot of typos, but I can't imagine that that accounts for all the
discrepancies.)

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