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Offline tradge

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Piano Style "This or That"
on: May 23, 2007, 09:24:24 AM
Pretty simplereally, I start by giving two choices, you say which you prefer, and give two different choices afterwards, e.g. I say:

Chopin or Liszt?

someone else replies with:

Chopin

Chopin 10, 5 or Chopin 25, 11?

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Here we go:

Arthur Rubinstein or Sviatoslav Richter?

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #1 on: May 23, 2007, 12:06:52 PM

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Here we go:

Arthur Rubinstein or Sviatoslav Richter?

Incidentally, Rubinstein loved Richter.  He said about him, "Richter plays, and the piano responds.  It brings tears to my eye."  I don't know what feelings Richter had about Rubinstein, but I am sure they were mutually positive.

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #2 on: May 25, 2007, 03:05:54 AM
Could you produce some simpler choices?

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Offline tradge

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #3 on: May 25, 2007, 09:56:46 AM
Fine! *sighs* honestly some of you are so difficult!! It's a choice of saying one answer and moving on!! Flippin' heck, there's some awkward people on here!

If it makes you happy:

Chopin Ballade, Op. 52  OR  Scriabin Op. 8, No. 12?

Offline gymnopedist

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #4 on: May 25, 2007, 02:37:41 PM
Chopin Ballade. I've never liked the Scriabin.

Miroirs or Gaspard?
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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #5 on: May 25, 2007, 10:19:34 PM
Chopin Ballade. I've never liked the Scriabin.

Miroirs or Gaspard?

Gaspard by a long shot

for rachmaninov...
Lugansky or Gilels?

Offline jlh

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #6 on: May 25, 2007, 11:01:08 PM
Gaspard by a long shot

for rachmaninov...
Lugansky or Gilels?

Lugansky

For Beethoven:

Gilels or Goode
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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #7 on: May 25, 2007, 11:45:23 PM
Gilels

For Chopin:

Pletnev or Argerich?

Offline tradge

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #8 on: May 26, 2007, 09:51:50 AM
Gilels

For Chopin:

Pletnev or Argerich?

I think Argerich

Rach 3rd Concerto, or Chopin 2nd Concerto?

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #9 on: May 26, 2007, 01:46:25 PM
Chopin 2nd Concerto

Chopin etude op10 no1, or Chopin etude op25 No3?

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #10 on: May 26, 2007, 03:26:59 PM
Isn't it possible to confine this weary topic to some dusty corner of pianoforum, like "Polls, etc." with an emphasis on the "etc."?  Or maybe we can create some new Sibera just for this, a subcategory of the subcategory "Polls, etc." called "Modified Polls - etc."

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #11 on: May 26, 2007, 09:23:24 PM
25/3 it is. Not that 10/1 isn't nice, i've just always been partial to the other.

Images book I or II?
Belles journées, souris du temps,
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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #12 on: May 26, 2007, 10:00:39 PM
I would say neither... but II if I had to pick.  :D

Chopin etudes op10 or op25?  (or trois... I guess...)
I'm an optimist... but I don't think it's helping...

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Re: Piano Style "This or That"
Reply #13 on: May 27, 2007, 01:51:48 AM
Op10

Beethoven Turkish March No4, or Beethoven Rondo A Capriccio 'Rage over a lost penny' Op129?

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