DUEL - mcgillcomposer vs. amanfang, Beethoven Op. 78

[amanfang]

Here's my recording for our duel (due today, March .  I did not take repeats.

Recorded using Audacity and microphone on a recently restored Mason & Hamlin.

[amanfang]

Still waiting for your recording....

[counterpoint]

It will get hard for mcgillcomposer - your recording is very, very good 

Oh, I just recognized, someone has voted for mcgillcomposer 

(It was not me!)

[i heart xenakis]

(It was not me!)

It was me.

[mcgillcomposer]

This is mcgillcomposer's farewell to the forum. I am sick of the idiocy and BS that abounds, so I'd like to say tata and enjoy!

P.S. i heart xenakis, I love you!!!

[goldentone]

Wow, Mcgill, such incredible crescendos and decrescendos.  It must be heard to be
believed.

[schartmanovich]

Talent and tact don't always go hand in hand.

[counterpoint]

mcgillcomposer

ROFLMAO 

[thierry13]

mcgillcomposer's recording is superior. Amanfang's is really good but it lacks the details that make a recording university level or professional level.

[jinfiesto]

Mcgillcomposer's is better. Definitely more musical.

[counterpoint]

who is the pianist in mcgillcomposer's recording... ?

[shortyshort]

who is the pianist in mcgillcomposer's recording... ?

My computer says "Andrew Schartmann"

[i heart xenakis]

My computer says "Andrew Schartmann"

https://www.music.mcgill.ca/composition/Files/CME/index.html


It is indeed him.  Andrew (aka drew as I know him) is actually a more than decent interpreter when it comes to Beethoven and Mozart.

[counterpoint]

It's not mcgillcomposer playing

[i heart xenakis]

It's not mcgillcomposer playing

Then who is it?

[counterpoint]

I don't know - Pollini?

[i heart xenakis]

I don't know - Pollini?

Doesn't even sound remotely like Pollini.  Sounds more like Ashkenazy if anything.

[thalberg]

Okay why can I not get mcgill's recording?

Did he remove it or what?

Not fair!

[thierry13]

Can't believe people are voting for Amanfang...

[counterpoint]

Can't believe people are voting for Amanfang...

thierry, you voted for what?

If you didn't realize, there was never a recording of mcgillcomposer!

[thierry13]

thierry, you voted for what?

If you didn't realize, there was never a recording of mcgillcomposer!

If you didn't realize, mcgillcomposer posted a recording and then removed it. And a recording by far better than Amanfang's. Two different worlds really.

[counterpoint]

If you didn't realize, mcgillcomposer posted a recording and then removed it. And a recording by far better than Amanfang's. Two different worlds really.

I have downloaded "mcgillcomposer's" recording. The playing of the Sonata was very good, but it was not mcgillcompser playing! Of course, this recording would have been much better (from playing, instrument, recording etc.) as amanfang's recording.

But again: there was never a recording of mcgillcomposer playing Beethoven op.78

[thierry13]

I have downloaded "mcgillcomposer's" recording. The playing of the Sonata was very good, but it was not mcgillcompser playing! Of course, this recording would have been much better (from playing, instrument, recording etc.) as amanfang's recording.

But again: there was never a recording of mcgillcomposer playing Beethoven op.78

Dude of course it was him playing. I can't see where you're getting the idea that it is not him ... I don't see any other evidence than because it was professionaly played. The fact is that this guy actually IS playing at that level.