playable Cristofori, was Nobuo Yamamoto, now Paul Badura-Skoda

[Kristinn Leifsson]

I remember Paul Badura-Skoda´s recital on a grand in Rio in 1992 that was
computerized and recorded on a grand in Bösendorfersaal in Vienna.
It was kind of funny.  I thought some notes were a bit "chopped" at but I
don´t know whether that was because of the computerization. 

Kristinn 


At 16:26 18.5.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>on 5/18/00 9:19 AM, Stephen Birkett at birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca
>wrote:
>
>> There aren't any playable Cristofori original pianos around
>> (understandably).
>
>I have a videotape (History of the Pianoforte -- A Documentary in Sound by
>Eva Badura-Skoda, published by Indiana University Press, available at
>amazon.com) which maintains otherwise. The tape says there are 3 Cristofori
>pianos extant, one of which, owned by the New York Metropolitan Museum, is
>playable. The restorer of the instrument was named, but I don't remember it
>just now. The tape contains a recording of Paul Badura-Skoda playing a
>Domenico Scarlatti sonata on the Cristofori instrument. The instrument
>looked like it was about to fall over, but the sound was lovely. Highly
>recommended.
>
>Kent Swafford
>
>
>