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The stock P-51 was only stressed for 8 Gs. Greater than 12Gs would rip the wings off. In 1998 a P-51 lost a left elevator trim tab and pitched up into a 10G climb temporarily blacking out the pilot who later landed the plane safely. In the most recent crash, it looks like there was a similar hi...

Martha rocks, but she is not the only super technician out there. Marc Andre Hamelin could easily handle this. I don't know if I would like his interpretation any better, but technically, it is well within his capabilities.

Andras Schiff speaks of watching Cziffra play a piece with which Schiff was familiar and remarked that Cziffra's hands and fingers were moving so fast that he could not actually tell what he was doing. I had not realized that Cziffra played this version live until we hear the audience at the end...

@TheNuclearWatermelon - Also no air conditioning or heating and no creature comforts of any type. Still 145km/hr is smoking in terms of speed. On a bright day and flat terrain you could cover perhaps 1,200 km without using a drop of petrol.

Weaning Israel from the US umbrella of protection and the $200 billion in subsides provided by US tax-payers is not throwing Israel under the bus. Obama's comments are long over-due. Israel has bullied and terrorized the Palestinians and those living in Gaza, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights...

He starts out way too fast and leaves behind much of the beauty of this piece. It was written to be played energetically, but the tempo need not be speeded up like this. This is one of the worst renditions I have heard from perhaps 50 that I have listened to. If you want to hear it played correct...

Cziffra starts off at such a fast tempo (listen to his full recording on YouTube) that you can't believe that he will be able to actually advance the tempo as Liszt calls for, but somehow he is able to do that and stay in control. Cziffra has his detractors, but I am not one of them. He was born ...

I have only seen this piece performed live one time (Antonio Pompa-Baldi who did an excellent rendition but never recorded the piece). Valentina certainly does it justice. I would love to see Marc Andre Hamelin record this. He has an even bigger technique than Valentina and well suited to Liszt. ...

I was not familiar with Ms. Ott. She is amazing. She has that Cziffra virtuoso quality about her playing

Razor blade technical control - great way to describe it. I have never seen him struggle with any piece - even very difficult technical ones for which Liszt is famous or Godowsky's Chopin etudes. The criticism of Hamelin is that he plays with little emotion, but I just don't see that. I have seen...

Very well put although Liszt is making a comeback on the performing circuit, especially in Europe. This is my favorite piece of music. I often turn out the lights and just sit in the dark listening to it. It is not as technically flashy as MW #1, but it has a beauty about it that plucks all the e...

Instead of making this a rant on racial issues, why not celebrate this great performance from the classic American opera, Porgy and Bess. Price is simply stunning in this. Her RCA recording with William Warfield done in the 1950s is still the definitive version even though it is only the highligh...

Just one more note on Michael Weiner's qualifications. Yes he has a PhD (so do I by the way), but in "nutritional ethnomedicine" whatever that is, not something relevant to foreign policy or international relations. He spent most of his career concerned with plants, not people. Helen has been ru...

I loved Cziffra's version of the HR2 until I listened to Hamelin. Hamelin is just spectacular in every way. He never seems rushed and conquers the most difficult technical parts at the end with ease. Most pianists have to work so feverishly to get through the end that they either sacrifice tempo ...

Rarely do the pianists themselves have time to block or remove criticism but you can bet that their managers, agents, and publicists do their best to make people think their clients walk on water. I have seen Valentina twice in concert including a performance last year in Seattle. She is talented...

Yudina is not one of my favorites, but to give her her due, she does play very skillfully. Sometimes I do not like her interpretations, but there is no denying her talent.

Don't believe for a moment that this is some non-professional pianist. It is such a popular recording piece, I cannot pick this out for sure but it sounds like Victor Merzhanov to me. In any event, this is someone that is an elite pianist, not some hacker that just sat down to play.