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Topic: Help me decide what to buy
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amanfang
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Help me decide what to buy
on: May 23, 2008, 02:23:00 AM
I have a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble. I'm debating between a book and a recording. The book is Fink's book on Piano Technique, and the recording is the Bortkiewicz re-release of Stephen Coomb's performances of the piano works (vol. 1). I'm leaning towards the recording, because I might like to explore some of Bortkiewicz's music this summer, although I have wanted the Fink book for a while, and I would have the time to read it this summer. Unfortunately, I cannot get both, unless someone wants to donate through paypal.
Anyway want to chime in with an opinion on which I should get?
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quantum
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Re: Help me decide what to buy
Reply #1 on: May 23, 2008, 01:31:04 PM
Try to see if you can "preview" the recording online or through a library or a friend.
I'm leaning towards the book.
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Essyne
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Re: Help me decide what to buy
Reply #2 on: May 23, 2008, 02:13:31 PM
omg - lol - I too have a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Best of luck
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Book as well, but then again, I'm a nerd
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rachfan
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Re: Help me decide what to buy
Reply #3 on: May 23, 2008, 11:19:35 PM
Hi amanfang,
I own both the Coombs recording and Fink's book. Get the CD! You'll enjoy it. While it only covers a small portion of Bortkiewicz's piano ouvre, it is well played and you can get an excellent sampling of his works. I personally found that Fink's book was one of more abstruse pedagogy books (I own a lot of them) that I had ever encountered. It might serve well as a textbook for a college piano course taught by Fink. But as a standalone book to be read at home, I found it somewhat lacking.
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