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@milesmossman I appreciate that you find me to be "educated".Unfortunately, from your comments, I am unable to return the compliment.Do you have a problem with me preferring one pianist over another? Classical music is "about"much more than "which pianist is better than another"I mean the fact th...

What a pity this was with piano accompaniment,although the pianist is excellent and does a really fine job.The voice is beautiful Warm and very womanly.I was a bit unsure about the breathing at times It seemed to me that she was taking a few too many breaths at times, but I am not a singer.

What a beautiful looking man was Menuhin! What a combination! Bach and Menuhin! Of course the contralto is equally wonderful!

What a shame we don't get the whole aria!

@IAMTERRYBLE Well, you are indeed "terryble' ! However I am so very grateful for your allowing me to have an opinion.I don't see how my expressed opinions of Glass's "music" have anything to do with "pessimism".Please try to keep in mind that my remarks were directed at Glass's "music" Glass has ...

Does this guy know any other concerto but this? Every where I go he is playing Beethoven 4.

@tonybooth4 Could be.I'm really not sure.She certainly played her transcription of "Jesu, joy of man's desiring"

And the concerts were in the National Gallery in London during the war and famously during some of the air-raids.A great woman.

@4tabula2rasa0 Do you then think that the Germans "don't deserve to exist" because of their atrocities in two world wars? Or the Americans. for their destruction of an entire race of indigenous people? Likewise the Australians., or the Spanish (Conquistadors)? You might think that you are not raa...

This is really quite funny! Also, just a bit more "promotion" It all helps.Not much to do with great piano playing and great artistry.See Evgeny Kissin for the real thing.

@AaronAndrewHunt

This is good advice

So silly.So unmusical.Holding onto high notes way past their correct duration is strictly for morons.General taste really has improved

21 dislikes!! GOOD HEAVENS! This is so beautiful.Perhaps the slightest tendency to drag but this could be Levine's fault.But what wonderful breath control; at such a slow tempo and what wonderful sostenuto.This is such a loving, moving performance and she looks beautiful and a wonderful set.

As much as I suspect Schwartzkopf of nazi sympathies I have to admit that this is beautiful, but not flawlwess

I hate to be a party pooper but to my ears her intonation is less than perfect.A tendency to slight flatness, I found a little disappointing and also it might be my speakers but the voice seems a little thin and I am not convinced by her sense of style dramatically in Mozart.Sorry.Some nice thing...

Oh God! Bach! What is there to say? Beyond words.Thank you,thank you ,Johannes.

Was that a wrong note in the very last chord? Oh well. Not bad, but over pedalled and too much undifferentiated noise in the sound.Too uniformly fortissimo and though it wasn't bad for a not-so-great pianist it lacked that final polish acquired through ttral technical control.Certainly the lumpen...

Actually, not bad James baby BUT a little overpedalled and still that problem of synchronising the L.H. and R.H. and even though I don't regard you as a REAL pianist JAMES baby this was actually rather moving but WHAT THE FUCK was that chord you played at the beginning of the loud bit? That can't...

Dear James,

Do try to play the notes in the L.H. chords TOGETHER.I am sure that's how Chopin would have liked it.And do try to synchronise your R.H. with your L.H. And do try to produce a more beautiful sound, less harsh and brittle.And why can't you memorise such a tiny oiece?You really ae tryi...

No amount of hype and promotion will conceal the dismal fact that this really is not great playing.Just another mediocre piano player who is trying all the tricks in the trade of self promotion for one purpose.Not the love of music but the love of fame and money.All very familiar and depressing ....

This whole clip radiates beauty.From the great dignity of Harnencourt's conducting, to the handsome gamba player, his even more handsome playing, as for the boy....I sobbed at the divinity of it all.The setting.Those beautiful young choiresters.The whole atmosphere pullulating with beauty and div...

Wonderful work! Sad that it is so completely neglected these days.

@skjumpers I really do think that it is a gamba

Respond to this video... personal abuse.And then there is the tired old tactic of describing opinions that vary from those of the brain-washed( and brain dead) nazis as "propoganda" Colonialism is an evil obscenity and the Brits have much to answer for here.But please don't try to equate 'the B...