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very nice..... also excellent sound for a 1927 record.

Amazing performance.........to have carried this piece off with such bravura and virtuosity and almost no obviously audible wrong notes, in an era before studio editing became possible! ........,

Bodicea at the pianoforte!............fantastic!

@soami2u yes,I agree with you re the Cortot Impromptu no 3 is excellent ............relatively few pianists carry this one off successfully and many make a complete hash of it IMHO........most seem to me to produce a mechanical staccato effect with the theme instead of legato and far too promi...

this is really, really good............one small point, ...if the voices are separately mic'd then maybe a little tweak in balance between 1.05-1.20.....giving slightly more volume to the gal and less to the guy.........this is one of the nicest recordings of this song anywhere IMHO....because ...

very, very good indeed, IMHO...........

Hi Erwin......very nice playing here...........did you change your opinion on this pianist or do you still think her playing is cold and lacking in depth?

@acortot I think maybe you have a better than average soundboard in this particular piano..... They made these instruments to a very similar pattern between 1830 and 1899......in the later oner after c1875 they increased the speaking length of the strings in the treble and made improvements to...

Nice Steck/Weber Grand.............

would sound much nicer on a real piano.....(rather than this electronic one)

Good sound..............which 'space' did you use on Altiverb?....... excellent realism

very good playing indeed...........(a shame that the sound is only coming though the right channel at present)

very nice......

very nice!

One of the very best .............delightful

@pianopera yes,was he having a bad day!?.........this is a Terrible performance.....I'm surprised it was even released by the record company.As you say, the evidence that this is a good pianist is there, but SO many wrong notes,muddles and hash- overs in just one piece!......

fantastic to experience one of the earliest automatics in action.....drives great!

@soami2u very interesting to hear your viewpoint re Moravec.......I feel he has great integrity........but the final outburst of defiance/anger you are refering to at the end of the piece is hard to notice in the Moravec performance ......bit of a damp squib really.

one of your best recordings to date(IMHO)...........good sound

@pianopera I just listened to a couple of Chopin performances by Ellegaard.........The influence of her Paris training is very apparent... I don 't know if she studied with Cortot or not, but her playing is the most like Cortot's that I have heard to date..... I'm very grateful to you for bri...

What stands out most is her tone............even in this 1928 recording. A 'full' tone without harshness...........something which came far more easily on early-mid 20th century instruments.......her tonal projection and clarity of articulation are to be much admired

some very good playing in places......wasn't impressed with coda.... quite 'tame' and also a few wrong notes.

wonderful musician!

the voiceovers in this video sound totally distorted..................weird!!

Superb musicanship!.............and wonderful instrument................just slightly marred by sound distortion during ff passages (due to recording equipment)

the piano is actually rosewood

@lancemgy ....I listened to True Keys from VI Labs.......sounds good........thought the treble was a bit on the bright side..............my perfect virtual instrument would have individual note volume and individual note eq and individual midi key remapper ...

@nikolaimedtner ..I agree that this is good playing and certainly captures the Hungarian character well.....however,I feel it 'drags' in some places where he could have given it some more forward motion.

I agree with you about Cziffra's performance....I don't like it at all...too fast and mecha...

does not fit with Chopin's waltz style..........

good potential,.........but don't forget about the 'raindrop' dripping away .....that needs to be heard

@pianopera, totally agree with you that these recordings are extremely important from a historic point of view....... I feel these 1948 recordings by Koczalski on Chopin's own Pleyel are extra specially important!.....this is perhaps the nearest we can get to hearing Chopin himself playing.........

this is the very nearest we will get to hearing the composer play this himself....a precious,precious record.

really , really nice piano tone!.............suspect it has been beefed up with modern EQ,

but the timbre is very nice,if a little bass heavy in places...