Lionel Choi wrote: >I recently acquired Maria Yudina's recordings of Bach's Goldberg >Variations, and Beethoven's Diabelli and Eroica Variations, all on the >Philips Great Pianists Series. I'm glad to report that I'm enjoying them >tremendously. What inspiring readings! ... Yudina I find an *interesting* if at times downright *outrageous* pianist who sometimes seems to use hammers instead of fingers (good for the Hammerklavier maybe?). Everybody is entitled to his own opinion but there are limits ;) Schnabel overrated in Beethoven, good grief. And I thought I had heard it all..... Philip Peters (who sort of believes that Schnabel *is* Beethoven)