How could you?

[Dave2002]

Andrew McG

Your broadcast of Paul Lewis playing Schubert's A minor sonata just about brought me to tears. Before breakfast, too.

[Don Petter]

Andrew McG

Your broadcast of Paul Lewis playing Schubert's A minor sonata just about brought me to tears. Before breakfast, too.

Unless I misinterpret you, it's a case of 'one man's meat'. My remark to Mrs P at the end was 'Well, that didn't do anything for me'!

(And long after my breakfast, I hasten to add.)

[french frank]

Sounds like a 'must Listen Again' there to decide (I had been hard at work for hours!). A divided verdict likely from me: I do like PL but it would have been long after my breakfast too

[Thropplenoggin]

Paul Lewis, that most soporific of players. I was moved, yes...to roll over and go back to sleep.

[Don Petter]

I think it is a good thing that different people react in different ways.

I would only add that I am not averse to Schubert, quite the opposite, and there are several places in Brendel's traverse of the sonatas that can bring (good) tears to my eyes.

[Dave2002]

OK - perhaps it was merely Schubert I was reacting to, but it did seem exceptionally good to me. I must dig out our CDs of Uchida and Lupu for comparison. It did more for me than hearing PL live has, so far.

Re breakfast - so what's the big deal? I was up before 6am, when I had a coffee. Made tea for newly arrived workmen sometime around 8. Moved the car just after 8am, and finally got ready for the day sometime after 10.

I regularly get up and go out around 7am. Note "regularly" != "frequently"!

The latest I'll own up to for the last stages, without having the excuse of illness, ia about 4pm!

[johnb]

I must dig out our CDs of Uchida and Lupu for comparison. It did more for me than hearing PL live has, so far.

Lupu - yes
Uchida - no

[Roslynmuse]

The interesting thing to me here is the fact of being caught 'off-guard', as it were, emotionally speaking - that has happened to me several times on Saturday mornings with CD Review listening to pieces that at a different time of day would perhaps have had far less emotional impact.