Talk:Geoffrey Tozer

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[edit] Medtner Complete Piano Works

See Talk:Nikolai Medtner for a discussion about whether any one pianist has ever recorded all of Medtner's piano works. Tozer and Hamish Milne might have come close, but each has some minor gaps. JackofOz 00:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yellow River Concerto - Tozer probably didn't give first performance in China.

Referring to this:

In May 2001 Geoffrey Tozer was the first Western artist to perform the Yellow River Piano Concerto in China. His performance, which received a standing ovation, was broadcast live on Chinese national television.

- I don't think Tozer was the first Western artist to perform the Yellow River Concerto in China. I don't feel quite confident enough of this to actually change the article, and I can't come up with a definite reference. But I do have an L.P. record from the 1970s featuring Daniel Epstein performing the Yellow River Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, plus one or two short Chinese orchestral works and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" on one side, and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" on the other side.

The L.P. is currently in storage and I can't access it now to check; but I'm pretty sure the notes on the back state that Epstein performed the Yellow River Concerto in China on tour with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy - the L.P. seemed to be intended as a commemoration of that tour.

The article on Daniel Epstein lends support to this, and suggests that Epstein, after performing the work in America, went on to play it in China, but doesn't quite say that he did. (It states that this was the plan, but fails to mention whether this was actually done - but doesn't suggest that the plan was changed, either.)

Can anyone confirm from more reliable sources that Epstein performed that concerto in China back in the 1970s? If so, then the mention that Tozer was the first to do it could be changed simply to state that he performed it in China. M.J.E. (talk) 18:10, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguity over Tozer's debut needs clearing up.

I wish to refer to this passage in the article:

In 1962, at the age of eight, Tozer performed J. S. Bach’s Concerto No. 5 in F Minor with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a concert that was televised nationally by the ABC. In 1964, in Melbourne’s Nicholas Hall, he made his concert debut with the Astra Orchestra under George Logie-Smith.

Was not the 1962 performance Tozer's concert debut? If so, then why is his 1964 performance described as his concert debut?

Perhaps the 1962 performance was a limited or private performance (well, televised nationally, but perhaps a private audience physically present); if so, this would then make the 1964 performance his public debut in a live capacity, as against being televised.

But, one way or another, this vagueness needs clearing up. I don't know the facts about these performances to do it myself; but perhaps someone who knows might care to do so. Thanks. M.J.E. (talk) 16:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)