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As I redo the complete Beethoven sonatas I will present the odd one. This is much improved on my last presentation and requires only a little nip & tuck here and there for professional performance.

Beethoven Sonata 16 G
https://www.box.com/s/rl6r3jy7exforsvotq6y
https://www.box.com/s/8znfb6r8e83bxwtv4vhb
https://www.box.com/s/iqit3s9dqkqr3btex3sr

omg

Mr. Gilmore (Steve....BachMach2....or whatever) -

This may be improved over your last presentation, but are you ever going to show us what you are really capable of doing - or do you find it easier to be a "one-trick pony?"

Carey--

Check out his Beethoven Appassionata performance, recently posted. It is a blazing tour de force, and should answer your question to some degree.

--Andy

Andy - You definitely got the "blazing" part right - but otherwise the Appassionata performance was more of a "tour-de-farce." Of course, the recording quality is so ATROCIOUS that it is almost impossible to tell when Mr. Steve is actually hitting the correct notes or simply resorting to impassioned flailing and pounding on the keyboard. Perhaps we should take up a collection to buy him a new digital recorder.

And a piano tuning.

Apparently you two are new to BachMach2's recordings

I have followed BachMach's recordings from his very first. Consider me a fan. (Or, a gawker.)

No - we've both been here from the very beginning !!!!!!

Let's just say we're gluttons for punishment !!!

As for Mr. Gilmore (aka RachMach2)...........

Does anyone else here appreciate that this guy can really play?

Well - sure he can play - BUT most of what he posts here sounds like he is sight reading. When combined with the out of tune piano and poor recorded sound.......it just seems like an incredible waste of his (and our) time. But, of course, it takes TWO to Tango !!

He clearly doesn't think it's a waste of his time. He regularly gets more replies than the average posted recording partly because some members find his postings funny.

As far as the sound of his piano goes, I think it's glorious and magnificent. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it was for sale. Our Mason BB's pale in comparison.

So true !!!!!

This is the same guy as Party Pianist from a long time ago (it has been proved), and I'm pretty sure BachMach is a separate account. Why hasn't he been banned for having a sock puppet yet?

Probably because of his brilliant interpretations or the glorious sound of his piano?

By whom?

I think the "proof" was based on the fact that both have a Box signature of Steve Gillmore.

If that is the case, you are a wise old man indeed. Unfortunately, all of the box.net links for PartyPianist's posts have been deactivated - so we are relying on our collective memories here. PartyPIanist waxed much more eloquently in his posts than BachMach2 - but the similarities are quite striking !!!

Maybe "senile old man" is more accurate, but I'm willing to go out on a limb here.

I recall running into this BachMach2/Party Pianist brouhaha shortly after I joined PW in early 2012. So I listened to a couple of BachMach's "performances", and after wiping away the tears of laughter, I did a little digging. And I distinctly remember finding a Party Pianist link to Box, and seeing the name "Steve Gillmore". But I don't remember the source of the link. I also remember following a link to Pianostreet, where I found "slow_concert_pianist". When I linked to SCP's recordings, once again, I saw "Steve Gillmore". So I assumed these were all one and the same person.

Although I can't find any PP references, I was able to track down this link to "slow_concert_pianist" on Pianostreet:

http://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=36850.0

So yes, we're relying on our collective memories here, which only serves to further amplify Damon's skepticism. Plus, he can now expand his question to: "By whom? A demented old man?"

I've done a bit of digging now, and I really dig this guy's creative blurbs that accompany the recorded rubbish. Self-referential and self-reverential in the extreme.