A fascinating, erudite polyglot, Nicholas Milroy (1911-2000) saved the recorded and written legacy of his mother Etelka Freund (1879-1977), a pianist … Continue reading
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Etelka Freund
Hear Etelka Freund play Brahms’s Intermezzo in A flat, op. 76, no. 3 Intermezzo in A flat, op. 76, no.3 from … Continue reading
Irén Marik: a fragment hunt
After 9/11 I panicked over having the only known copies of Irén Marik’s 100+ hour archive and began to … Continue reading
Debussy in Bartók’s hands.
Bartók was a good listener, especially when transcribing with scientifically accuracy thousands of field recordings made during his excursions into … Continue reading
When Debussy came to Budapest
Back in late July of 1983, Janos Sebestyén the harpsichordist thumbed through his little black book and suggested I call … Continue reading
Brahms: Recaptured by Pupils and Colleagues
Carl Friedberg plays the introduction to Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in d : Max Fiedler conducts the introduction to … Continue reading
Brahms meets Sitting Bull and Queen Victoria
How close can we ever get to Brahms? Trawling through an immense bibliography of research, one entry stopped me in … Continue reading
Brahms: Behind the Notes
Now and then we run into Brahms, stopping him on the street of time, seemingly content in the company of … Continue reading
Confusion untangled by Affinity
part two Before planning to meet Rezzori, I contacted Beatrice Muzi, an artist living in Le Marche whom I had … Continue reading
Hunting Hungarians: traveling from Liszt to California’s East Sierra desert
A sad blurry overlooked record store on New York’s Eighth Avenue in the 1970s slept next to a mirrored metallic … Continue reading