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New Piano Piece by Chopin Discovered – Free Piano Score
A previously unknown manuscript by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. The handwritten score is titled “Valse” and consists of 24 bars of music in the key of A minor and is considered a major discovery in the wold of classical piano music. Read more >>

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Offline pianomaestro88

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Kovacevich
on: December 31, 2003, 11:49:14 PM
Stephen Kovacevich just released the Complete Cycle of Beethoven Sonatas. Has anyone heard them, if so, are they worth buying? I would be interested to hear his...'interpretations'. By the way, interesting interview with Kovacevich in Pianist Maga

Offline bernhard

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Re: Kovacevich
Reply #1 on: January 01, 2004, 05:37:49 PM
I have not heard them either, and was wondering the same (already have too many versions of the sonatas, should I get this one as well). Someone on another thread ("Overrated pianists") considered it dreadful though. :(
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Offline cziffra

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Re: Kovacevich
Reply #2 on: January 04, 2004, 05:49:30 AM
i liked his brahms rhapsodies
What it all comes down to is that one does not play the piano with one’s fingers; one plays the piano with one’s mind.-  Glenn Gould
 

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