Originally posted by tomasino:
Yes, you may be right. He may very well have been the best. But the feeling about the Soviets at the time–the height of the cold war–was that even if he was the best, he would not have won unless it was meant as a diplomatic overture.
On the contrary, I think the Soviets would have liked to have a Russian pianist win at the height of the cold war. But Cliburn was so terrific they had little choice.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
koji
PW = DUMBNESS
What kind of fucking logic is that? The Russian has missle in Cuba aiming directly to the White House, and US has missle base in Turkey that was really to bomb the shit out of the Russia.
In dat situation, why would Russia wants US to win a local russian piano competition???
BTW, Richter was one of the judge, who gave Cliburn 100 out of 10. While everyone else 1 out of 10.
approves
(even though I am not too fond of Cliburn himself, esp the album he puts out later like ‘cliburn’s favorite debussy’ or ‘cliburn’s favorite chopin’)
And i never liked his LIszt.
I’m not a huge Cliburn fan either, but I will admit that most of his concerto recs are incredible.
-Rach2
-Rach3
-Tchaik1
-Prok3
-Liszt2
-McDowell2
Even his Brahms 2 is kinda nice.
Did you hear the stuff released from the competition? I don’t how he got past the first round with that mazeppa, much less win the whole thing. If anything, it was set up for him to win.
koji
K tru, but dude, surely you heard his appassionata, Liebestraume and his Tchaik 1 and Rach 3rd?
THOSE are amazing recordings
If one is determined to win, nothing can be done.
I think it’s typical. The best pianist in the competition never takes away the 1st prize.
hahahahaha
da obligatory follow up
trum da mckey angelic got seventh rize in a comp,how ghey
hahaha dun you mean tha PAV,n randomly wtf happnd to tha pav zmilely
hahah da komme subtleness, bit rezpecable
[size=200][color=yellow]Howevah,
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[size=150][color=cyan]Hint[/size]: 
Pozzibliy another follow up
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