RenoRaider (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wonderfully expressed.

RabidCh (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Now that I have listened to it many, many, many times, I can say WOW. Sometimes I wished the dynamics could go a little farther, but I don't think there's anything missing. The tone and phrasing is all there, thank you once again.

skowarsky (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It stands up to the most critical listening, but, better yet, it affords the sensitive listener the luxurious sense of being in the hands of a master, which is the place where one can simply let go, enjoy, and be grateful that such a thing can be.

skowarsky (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Truecrypt is an artist of the first magnitude. Like Nasedkin, one of his teachers at the Moscow Conservatory, he makes the piano sing. This is a special gift, one I think they don't teach anywhere else. It seems to defy the laws of physics, but it's there in plain hearing for anyone who wishes to listen. This is an absolutely authoritative version of the magnificent Preludes. They have been played differently, but they have not been played better.

truecrypt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

no problem... Send me your e-mail address and I'll get this file to you ;)

RabidCh (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Is there some way you could host the pre-YouTube versions of this? I don't like to rip things off of YouTube, with the thought that there is a better version somewhere, but I do want this recording on a CD very badly...

truecrypt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes.

AngelicaTross (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is really moving; thank you! Busoni wrote in December 1906 "the 24 Preludes are not easy... They have given me very much to do. They do not sound so difficult, but they are not any easier than the Brahms Paganini Variations and they are so very varied in technique. One has to be able to spring about..." Is that really true?

pjioayncoe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"Good" is not good enough. They are of the highest degree! :)

acortot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

very good!