If you like Mozart, you should listen to Andre Previn's recording with Sir Adrian Boult of Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24. As you say, he certainly could play the piano.
A major talent. His reminiscences of his time in Hollywood, No Minor Chords, is well worth reading. I think I'll read it again tomorrow in honor of the man.
It is when it is sung properly. Ironically, the two best recordings by far are from women: Doris Day on her Broadway album and Ella Fitzgerald on her Hello Love album.
Mike, I get the impression you don't realise this, but your complaint is not with the film. It's with Eliza Doolittle. She's not the person you want her to be. You want her to have all your preoccupations and priorities, not her own.
Yes, exactly. She left because she believed her feelings were not reciprocated. When she found him sitting alone, listening to her recorded voice, she realised she had misjudged how he felt.
Oh, come on. You're as anti-romantic as Professor Higgins himself! :)
Eliza returns and hears Higgins listening to her recorded voice. She's no dummy and realises that, contrary to his blustering, the fact that he's sitting alone listening to her reveals his true feelings. She decides she'll...