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Thanks Laura for articulating something that you may, or may not, have intended. . I don't choose to compare you with anyone else in the music world. Seems a pretty pointless exercise! I also want to lay here forever in the cold, just the skin and bones of one of England's daughters who...

In the case of this recording, the likes or dislikes of mere mortals are irrelevant. This recording was made in 1931, shortly after Horowitz had left Russia, the homeland of both himself and Rachmaninov.

The power of Rachmaninov's music is contained within, and transmuted through, Horowi...

Not a masterpiece - that is far to big a word - but a curiously haunting song. Shame about the sentiments expressed in the lyrics. They make him sound shallow - walking away from a love that has died to find pretty, but vapid, city girls that he can use whilst drinking himself stupi...