A pianist who opens a recital with the Bach/Busoni Chaconne is a statement of values, for good or ill A pianist who opens a recital with the Bach/Busoni Chaconne is a statement of values, for good or ...
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Igor Levit has not had a very long career—born in 1987, he is thirty-one years old—but that he is a great pianist is obvious to anyone who hears him. You can hear him a second or third time, just to ...
The Music: Four dance-inspired masterworks: the Rachmaninov based on the folía, originally a Portuguese dance (not Spanish as the booklet says), Bach’s Chaconne derived from a slow Hispanic dance, ...
It isn't that he didn't produce, where called for, the big, full sound Busoni had in mind. But from some variations he drew meanings I hadn't sensed before - the quieter parts, the sparkling ...
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