After 9/11 I panicked over having the only known copies of Irén Marik’s 100+ hour archive and began to … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Beethoven
Edward Said’s piano teacher recalls Ignace Tiegerman in Cairo.
When you play, use your imagination, make things happen. This way the music will be alive! – Ignace Tiegerman Tiegerman: … Continue reading
A first hearing of Artur Schnabel
The agony of recording. Artur Schnabel disliked the idea and the reality was even worse when he began to … Continue reading
Lifting the lid on Debussy’s Canope
Debussy’s Canope seems to clash with the other occupants inside his second book of Prèludes, or to obtrude among anything … Continue reading
Ancestor worship
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) visited Russia a few times and helped their new music scene’s innovators get exposure abroad. One of … Continue reading
Traces of Debussy, part I: Two Hungarian violists
To supplement our recent publication of lost recordings played by masters of Debussy’s music we dive into the … Continue reading
What’s new?
How lucky can one get? New things appear on the path as sound archaeology mixes and messes with varied eruptions so … Continue reading
A cellist summons the Mongols
When a cello plays you expect its low range to provide a buttress that stabilizes its highest singing registers that copy operatic and … Continue reading