[78-L] Pianists.

[Spats]

Opera was always and still is my first love, but my favourite 
pianists were Paderewski, Rachmaninov and Pachmann. I've never heard 
Busoni on piano-rolls, though I know who he was, of-course.

Earl.

At 3:43 am -0700 22/10/2008, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>Now, that's much better!  At least we're talking about music here. 
>Actually, I wasn't brought up on vocals.  I think for my 18th 
>birthday, my uncles gave me Liszt's Saint Francis Walking on the 
>Waters, with Cortot,  Liszt's 6th Hungarian Rhapsody with Levitski, 
>and for my 19th my father gave me Mozart's 40th Symphony with the 
>BSO and Kousevitsky, and for my 20th the Sibelius 2nd with 
>Barbirolli.  It was all uphill from then on!  As for the greatest 
>pianist of the 20th century, try and beat Busoni, the piano rolls 
>are fantastic!  I also branched out to Ignaz Friedman (no relation), 
>Solomon Cuttner, and the giant of them all Gieseking! 
>
>Howard