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 [log in to unmask]