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    #11791
    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Ooooer 'composition of études was hardly a major achievement' = minor key études? Alkan?
    Not Alkan... otherwise you have successfully peeped through the flimsy veil of that part of the question
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      #11792
      The infamous Chopin Liszt?

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        #11793
        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        The infamous Chopin Liszt?
        Bach to the drawing board, anton: I'm sure you can Handel it

        (Not clues)
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          #11794
          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

          'one whose composition with a libertarian theme featured on a nocturnal example of public transport' = Rszewski variations on 'The People United Will Never Be Defeated'?

          'one whose concerto début took place when he was barely into his teens'
           = Kissin?

          How am I doing so far, Calibs?
          Ha! You went and added bits while I was replying to the first part

          I'm afraid it's nul points for those two contributions, Mr A...
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            #11795
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Not Alkan... otherwise you have successfully peeped through the flimsy veil of that part of the question
            Marc-André Hamelin ???

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              #11796
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

              - one whose composition with a libertarian theme featured on a nocturnal example of public transport
              Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom - Night Train (Album)

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                #11797
                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom - Night Train
                Nice one, mercia!

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                  #11798
                  If it is Peterson, are we looking for Quebec?
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    #11799
                    scb and mercia have got one each!

                    Well done

                    One to go.... tie-breaker? or will Anna or anton or ammy sweep in and throw it wide open.

                    We'll be back after these messages.....
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      #11800
                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      If it is Peterson, are we looking for Quebec?
                      But no... it's fhg who sweeps in and takes the prize....

                      Quel exploit!

                      Oui - Québec
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        #11801
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        But no... it's fhg who sweeps in and takes the prize....

                        Quel exploit!

                        Oui - Québec
                        Ronald Turini for the other pianist?

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                          #11802
                          So the third pianist is....??

                          ... not the celebrated Maestro Turini (who he? Ed.)
                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            #11803
                            Alain Lefevre?
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              #11804
                              Gorn orfly quiet... Everyone at dinner, or a clue required?

                              One pianist left. The début in question was when the pianist was 13, with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto...

                              So far it's between mercia, scb and fhg (who got the Q)...
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                                #11805
                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Alain Lefevre?
                                Ooops... we were tapping away simultaneously, fh. Not M. Lefevre, no...

                                The one I have in mind shares initials with Lindsay Lohan (but probably very little else )... Come on fhg, and you can have an RRRRR, Jim lad!!
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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