Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Dmitrios Sgurros (sp?) -- the new Horowitz? Message-ID: <4065@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 14:02:59 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.4065 Posted: Mon Sep 17 14:02:59 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 04:22:17 EDT References: <405@uwvax.ARPA> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 10 It sounds like this prodigy is indeed the new Horowitz - fast, inappropriate rubato, no musical feeling, etc. That describes my impression of Horowitz (after he came out of retirement) exactly. And many famous virtuosi. For a real curiosity, there is one Horowitz recording of Debussy's "L'isle joyeuse" in which the final statement of the 3/4 theme is so distorted that it comes out sounding as if it were 4/4. I suppose he had a reason for doing it, twisted as it may be. Jeff Winslow