When you play, use your imagination, make things happen. This way the music will be alive! – Ignace Tiegerman Tiegerman: … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Chopin
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
An endangered species: private recordings.
In 1949 Mieczyslaw Horszowski spent time in Sao Paolo to give concerts and visit a recording studio. Some fifty … Continue reading
Andres Segovia • Ignaz Friedman • and Artur Rubinstein in Argentina!
A pioneer who took the guitar away from flamenco and into global concert life, Andres Segovia was an innovator who luckily … 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
How an unknown family saga inspired a Tolstoy classic.
A pity if scholars and researchers directly aim for a target while overlooking its neighborhood! If you want to enter a building, isn’t … Continue reading
Russian Poets of the Piano
After completing a decade long Balinese project to retrieve and publish the lost 1928 recordings, I headed over to Paris to spend time with … Continue reading