Tim Mahon: >... What of Borodin's comment on meeting Liszt in 1881 that "...Liszt >is a real Balakirev." I make no case that Liszt's technique wasn't awesome, >thrilling, stupendous, memorable etc.... merely that perhaps history has >colored the extent to which it differed from others. Since neither he nor his contemporaries recorded, we'll never know. The only thing we have is the contemporary account from people who heard them all. Honestly, all I know is what I read in Harold Schoenberg's The Great Pianists and various other second-hand accounts. Steve Schwartz