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From: Rachmaninoff <mavajen635@bizatop.com>
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Subject: Re: Screw Pletnev generally - fav Beethoven concertos update
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:24:24 +0000
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 19:07:47 +0000, Zionazi wrote:

> Sorted out Pletnev's Beethoven PCs, as well as his DG Mozart Sonatas -
> I'm done with him generally; he seems a bit too gimmicky, similar to
> Mengelberg in a way...
>
> So; fav Beethoven PCs:
>
> 1) Gould/Golschmann
> 2) Gould/Jochum (Argerich/Abbado is good as well, but I don't like it
> nearly as much as Gould, so I won't need it. Argerich/Sinopoli and
> Argerich/Ozawa both suck.)
> 3) Richter/Kondrashin
> 4) Moravec (and probably Gould/Bernstein - will have to relisten)
> 5) Might actually be Lang Lang/Eschenbach (listen to the transition...
> probably the best I heard... certainly better than both Gould's,
> Gilels/Ludwig, Gilels/Masur, Pletnev/Gansch, and also Michelangeli who
> is just too fast here...)

In 5, you should listen to Katsaris playing with himself.