John Dalmas ([log in to unmask]) wrote:


Deryk Barker asked:
>
>>Brendel? Has he recorded any Chopin?
>
>and reported Brendel as saying:
>
>>you have to make a lifetime's studying of him, which is why he never plays
>>Chopin . . .
>
>On Vanguard lp C-10058, now on Vanguard Classics CD OVC-4023, Brendel
>evidently had endured lifetime study enough to record the Andante Spianato
>& Grande Polonaise, the Polonaise Fantaisie, and three other Polonaises.

Ah, but John, note the use of the present tense.  Brendel's Vox and
Vanguard recordings are decades old, n'est-ce pas?

Deryk Barker
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