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fredbucket wrote:
alpha wrote:About a week ago the entire 1963 Raymond Lewenthal WBAI broadcast on Alkan was posted, in 19 parts.
I have extracted the audio from these and it may be downloaded from here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y0kujwmnjo2. It is about 104 mByte, fairly large.

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Thanks very much Alpha and Fred.

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iano wrote:I wonder whether anyone could help me with a video of Prokofiev in his dacha that was posted a while ago. I'm interested to know whether I remembered correctly that he made an analogy between chess and composition.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA82T3wFyi8

Here is a translation I had found somewhere:

"Well, right now I am working on a symphonic suite of waltzes, which will include three waltzes from Cinderella, two waltzes from War and Peace, and one waltz from the movie score "Lermontov." [War and Peace] has just been brilliantly produced in Leningrad, where the composer Cheshko (?) made an especially noteworthy appearance as a tenor, giving a superb performance in the role of Pierre Bezukhoff. Besides this suite, I am working on a sonata for violin and piano [no.1 in f minor], upon completion of which I will resume work on the sixth symphony, which I had started last year. I have just completed three suites from the Cinderella ballet and I am now turning the score over to copyists for writing the parts, so that most likely the suites will already be performed at the beginning of the fall season."

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Thank you parag, for the link and translation. Wonderful footage, isn't it?

It does bother me that I've misremembered so completely the bit about chess, especially as I was planning to refer to it in an 'occasional address' tomorrow! Oh well...

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iano wrote:Thank you parag, for the link and translation. Wonderful footage, isn't it?

It does bother me that I've misremembered so completely the bit about chess, especially as I was planning to refer to it in an 'occasional address' tomorrow! Oh well...

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Most welcome Ian, it is indeed an incredible footage... the waltz is gorgeous; sadly not played at all.
Your confusion perhaps was borne out of the reference to "Chesko" (??)...

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Possibly. Anyway, I've asked Anthony Phillips what he knows about it, being too lazy to read the diaries myself...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYYch3Y ... re=related

I found this today (Sorry if it's not new).
It is driving me mad - does anyone know what it is or who is playing it?
The poster reckons it is a Strauss paraphrase - it may well be though the waltz is unfamiliar to me.
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player wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYYch3Y ... re=related

I found this today (Sorry if it's not new).
It is driving me mad - does anyone know what it is or who is playing it?
The poster reckons it is a Strauss paraphrase - it may well be though the waltz is unfamiliar to me.
Please help,
Rob
A more recent entry says that "it is Richter playing a Franz L. piece in E Flat Major in the 1940's", if this can be of any help.
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monti's czarda in a lisztian way hehe.
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Jean-Séb wrote:
player wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYYch3Y ... re=related

I found this today (Sorry if it's not new).
It is driving me mad - does anyone know what it is or who is playing it?
The poster reckons it is a Strauss paraphrase - it may well be though the waltz is unfamiliar to me.
Please help,
Rob
A more recent entry says that "it is Richter playing a Franz L. piece in E Flat Major in the 1940's", if this can be of any help.
Yes, thanks. Listening again it is very likely a Liszt piece but I'm not sure about Richter - I've checked two separate discographies and there are no unfamiliar Liszt works mentioned (well, at least not from the 40s or even 50s). I shall investigate further.
Rob
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