dear meiting: feux follets?!?!

[cziffra]

i am writing this to meiting out of sheer astonishment- i just heard you playing feux follets, downloaded from your site.  i just want to ask- how the hell is that possible?  what do you have to do in order to do that?

i have NEVER heard that played so fast and delicately.  it's possibly the best recording ever.

[bernhard]

I will second that!

[newsgroupeuan]

I will second that!

Me too!!!!

[comme_le_vent]

the words 'devil he his soul the to sold' spring to mind

but apparently they sprung in the wrong order

[thracozaag]

i am writing this to meiting out of sheer astonishment- i just heard you playing feux follets, downloaded from your site.  i just want to ask- how the hell is that possible?  what do you have to do in order to do that?

i have NEVER heard that played so fast and delicately.  it's possibly the best recording ever.

 To quote Barere: "Oh, I can play it faster!".  You should hear his Chopin Op. 10 #7, it's quite sick.

koji

[faulty_damper]

That does sound delicate but there's an echo, the kind of echo that you'd only hear in a concert hall and never in a recording studio.

Anyway, I'm impressed!

[meiting]

Thank you all for the kind attention. Check back at the site soon cuz there'll be something really special there in the next few days - parts of the recent recital I played in Minneapolis, including Moszkowski/Horowitz Etincelles, Ravel Toccata, Schumann Toccata, and possibly Kreisleriana and even a couple of Rachmaninoff preludes or scarlatti sonatas - depends on how much time I have to convert the sources.

Regarding the Feux Follets, that recording was made at a live performance in Newport, Rhode Island. It was actually the opening night concert of the Newport classical festival two years ago, and Feux Follets was the encore after one of the most strenuous programs i've ever played (3 Scarlatti Sonatas in D major K. 490-492, Schubert Sonata in C minor D. 958, Brahms-Paganini variations, Nancarrow Tango?, and Wagner/Liszt Tannhauser Overture). It was recorded live, again, unedited, which is why it has the reverb of a live performance/hall.

Funnily, Barere said that about the Schumann Toccata, if I'm not mistaken. Of which my version will be posted in the next few days on my site