"After he died," says Sands, "I repeated the recital as a memorial tribute in Los Angeles, recorded it and made some CDs for those who couldn't be there, one of whom was John".
As he repeats the recitals, refining the cycle piecemeal and recording it for Arabesque, he draws equally effervescent praise.
Another of Mr. Stoltzman's duo recitals, repeated around the country, is "The American Connection" -- concert-talks with Lukas Foss, the composer, pianist and conductor.
But for his free recital tonight (repeated on Sunday afternoon) at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Mr. Holzmair has invited Philipp Harnoncourt to devise a staged installation with lights and video projections to create a atmospheric backdrop for a dramatic performance of Schoenberg's Expressionistic song cycle "The Book of the Hanging Garden".
That fierce self-criticism persists - he recently repeated a Bach partita in a recital because he felt he'd delivered it so badly the first time.
But the institute was a considerable success and is being repeated this summer, starting on Sunday with a recital by Mr. Rose offering works by Mozart, Schubert and Schumann.
That said, an artist of Mr. Aimard's caliber seldom repeats himself, and his recital in Zankel Hall can be counted on to bring something new and surprising.
Witness, for instance, the duo piano recital of the Argentine virtuoso Martha Argerich and Mr. Kissin, cooked up last year and repeated at this year's festival.
There would be no point to a recital of Welles' childish triumphs if he had not turned up in New York a very few years later and repeated some of them as commercial and artistic successes.
In fact, it was the site of two recitals: the program was first presented at 6 30, presumably aimed at the same right-after-work crowd as the New York Philharmonic's Rush Hour concerts, and repeated at 9 30.
