[78-L] Van Cliburn

[Philip Carli]

This is rough stuff, speaking as a pianist myself (who did hear him live when I was young).  I'd attempt to contest this, lightly, but it's hard to come up against loathing and "no heart and soul" as opening gambits. Well, no-one's ever mourned the passing of a critic...
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of Mike Harkin [xxm.harkin at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:09 PM
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Funny, I was thinking much the same - good to know I'm not alone.  The thing is, he beat the Russians on their own turf at a time when it was very important to the US' national ego that he did so.  If he hadn't won that particular competition, we would never have
heard of him.  He was probably a very nice guy [who didn't finish last, for once].  Had a
hell of a technique, but no heart or soul to go with it.  RIP.  Бог да  го прости.

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Fri, 3/1/13, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Van Cliburn
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 12:50 AM

Moscow Nights is the only thing I ever liked by him. The most overrated
pianist, the most overrated Concerto (Tchaikovsky)..I loathed his RCA recording
of it.

dl

On 2/28/2013 7:21 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> We've been discussing him on ARSCList and Facebook and I hadn't noticed
> that there was nothing on 78-L.  I posted a photo of the Moscow Nights
> 78 that I bought in Moscow's Dom Knigi (House of Books) on Novy Arbat in
> 1995.
>
> https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c67.0.403.403/p403x403/313317_10200205544653611_1461872688_n.jpg
>
>
> It is a studio recording, not the concert recording that was on LP and
> Youtube.
>
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vZWJT-XGw
>
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Surprised not to have seen this before now (not OT,
>> his "Moscow Nights" was issued on 78 and he WAS 78).
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/van-cliburn-pianist-moscow-dies
>
> dl
>
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