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| Classical Music for Aficionados now listening, Igor Levit, Encountersuperb, especially "Palais de Mari" by Morton FeldmanLevit says: "The most touching, open-hearted comments I got were about one of the least well-known pieces – Palais de Mari by Morton Feldman, which is very i... | |
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| Classical Music for Aficionados lucky you to hear Elizabeth Leonskajashe was born in Tbilisi Georgia, studied in Moscow, lives in Viennashe is married to Oleg Kagan" Elisabeth Leonskaja’s musical development was shaped or influenced to a decisive degree by her collaboration w... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Schumann: Complete Solo Piano Works 13 cds brilliant classics 94008https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15456/https://www.amazon.com/Schumann-Complete-Solo-Piano-Works/dp/B002VZ2MQC | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Pogorelich dissected here:https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2019/08/22/749395568/a-confrontation-with-music-ivo-po... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The recording I have of Pogorelich playing Schuman's Symphonic Etudes is from 1981, when P must have been about 21 years old. He has always had serious health issues, and on the cover he looks like a high school student. I certainly do love his m... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jimbig surprise that you do not prefer Arrau!so many have recorded this piece, I listen but could never choose | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s PianosNannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/arts/music/beethoven-piano.html | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados AshkenazyI have heard his 1966 Diabelli Variations, but not the new recording.Now listening to his "Rare First Recordings 1955" which is a bonuspart of "The Solo Recordings on DG & Westminister 40CD"He must have been 13 years old, looks so you... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Mr. Jarrett, 75, broke the silence, plainly stating what happened to him: a stroke in late February 2018, followed by another one that May. It is unlikely he will ever perform in public again. “I was paralyzed,” he told The New York T... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados NYT reviews Lang Lang's new recording of Bach Goldbergs. "Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too MuchlyOn a new recording of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, the superstar artist stretches the music beyond taste." Very critical, preference for Jeremy ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Here is an article that is 28 years old, about pianos, about music, about Glenn Gould, and about Alfred Brendel.Anything I could say would only diminish it, so I simply recommend it to you.The original is behind a paywall here:https://www.lrb.co.u... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados On Saturday night, he and the Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra completed the programme as promised at Jerusalem's international convention centre. But when Barenboim returned for a second encore, he surprised the audience by asking if they wante... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Four days before his death, speaking to Gen. Benjamin Butler, Lincoln still pressed on with deportation as the only peaceable solution to America’s race problem. “I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can g... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados "While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much o... |