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Offline sevencircles

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Leslie Howard improvising!
on: September 01, 2011, 06:48:31 PM
Heard that he is an outstanding improviser and that he can improvise fluently on an unseen theme in general.

Anybody heard him improvise?

Any recordings?
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Offline jmanpno

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Re: Leslie Howard improvising!
Reply #1 on: June 21, 2012, 08:23:58 PM
I haven't!  LH has made about 100 CD's of the music of Liszt however!
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Re: Leslie Howard improvising!
Reply #2 on: June 23, 2012, 09:52:44 AM
A long time since I made that post, I forgot about it actually  :)
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Offline jmanpno

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Re: Leslie Howard improvising!
Reply #3 on: June 23, 2012, 03:57:28 PM
Any luck on finding it?
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Re: Leslie Howard improvising!
Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 04:42:01 PM
Quote from: jmanpno on June 23, 2012, 03:57:28 PM
Any luck on finding it?

I found a couple of clips where he is improvising but nothing really outstanding.  :P
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Re: Leslie Howard improvising!
Reply #5 on: July 09, 2012, 09:45:04 PM
Quote from: jmanpno on June 21, 2012, 08:23:58 PM
I haven't!  LH has made about 100 CD's of the music of Liszt however!
I bet the urge to improvise the umpteenth transcription of some obscure and forgotten opera for disk 73 rather than reading the sheet music was hard to resist, I mean, who's gonna know?
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