Lionel Choi wrote: >... To me, her Diabelli only confirms how overrated Schnabel is as a >Beethoven interpreter, whose Diabelli is also on his overrated??? Do you have his complete sonata set? >Just curious: The liner notes mention that Yudina was not one who was >into sweet-talking and pleasing the political dictators of her time, and >also mentions that she was a champion of Shostakovich's music. Check out "Testimony" at the National Library (several places -- the main branch has two or three copies) >I might be wrong, but I thought I came across somewhere (possibly on this >List or maybe somewhere else in cyberspace) that like Goldenweiser, Yudina >was amongst those who at some point joined the Stalinist camp and denounced >and censured composers like Shostakovich and Prokofiev, ... Shostakovich I believe always had a good impression of Yudina, though she did strange things, and was, to his description a hypocrite. Derek Lim