I suspect his other 4-5 Haydn sonata (sightread) would have been just as
mediocre as sightread music usually is.

>
> Hi all,
>
> I strongly agree with Roman of his comment below!
>
> Arto
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote:
>
>> > Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but
>> music
>> > isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't
>> know
>> > the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer
>> (which
>> > can read it much more accurately than you can).
>> Lute music is not exactly "green onions", you know.....
>> That's why even our virtuosi like to read as they play.
>> Not everyone thinks that memorization is such a wonderful thing.
>> Svyatoslav
>> Richter once said that if he weren't forced to play from memory he
>> wouldn't
>> be stuck with his limited [sic!] repertoire. He would have liked to play
>> 5-6
>> Haydn sonatas in concert, rather than 1, but sightreading just wasn't
>> done
>> in the old country.
>> RT
>> ==
>


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