[78-L] Enesco plays Bach

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Oct 21 12:14:51 PDT 2008


Howard Friedman wrote:
>>> Page 731 (the supplement). It must have just missed the cutoff for the main volume.<<
> 
> Right you are, David!  But I'll still take the Milstein!
> 
>  And isn't a shame that Enesco never did teach his star pupil to pay attention to the lengths of the notes!  Follow Menuhin's recording of Symphonie Espagnole with the score, and you'll hear what I mean.
> 
> Howard

I didn't like Menuhin even before he became a pretentious crashing bore. And 
there are to this day radio stations that play his gawdawful duets with Stepon 
Grapejelly (so out of tune nobody can tell what key they're out of) and think 
they're playing great artistry.

dl



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