Piano Forum

I think it's really a great recording from any perspective, recording sound, piano sound, but first and foremost your piano playing! You play with all the delicacy required for this wonderful transcription.

Besides that, I think it's also a great achievement that you have really done it, recorded this CD. I remember you had these plans for years.

Thanks - I'm glad I went the extra mile and hired an expensive hall with a very nice piano, as opposed to a cheaper church with just an ok piano. I can't believe it took me so long to complete the project, but it's been done to a significantly higher standard than it would have been three or four years ago. Plus it meant I was able to include Thalberg's La traviata, which I think is (with his La Sonnambula) his best paraphrase, and to the best of my knowledge there were only two extant recordings of it. I was very careful with the CD to only include pieces which I had really thought about; although it is intentional that there are rarities on the disc, I don't believe in wasting my (and the listener's) time with tepid run-throughs where the only goal appears to be the existence of a recording of the piece.