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...There are eclectic tributes from Janet Baker, Alfred Brendel, Nicholas Hytner and others....
...Brendel reflects deeply on Beethoven and Liszt, performing and recording, and — an endearing enthusiasm — his appreciation of humour in music....
...By the late 1970s and 1980s, when he made recordings with Alfred Brendel and Daniel Barenboim, he was well past his peak....
...The only non-19th century references came when Brendel sought to debunk his colleague Charles Rosen’s opinions on “good taste”, and to establish Liszt, rather than Schoenberg, as the foundation stone of...
...It feels as if we have been saying farewell to Alfred Brendel for years....
...As a contrast, the orchestra is spending this week before the onslaught giving concerts with its principal guest conductor, Charles Mackerras....
...Based on the French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, Bartók’s one-act opera takes us to Duke Bluebeard’s dark lair, a sinister castle in which vile secrets lurk behind closed doors....
...I would rather have heard Davis in tandem with another mature musical thinker such as Perahia or Brendel, but Kissin’s technical brilliance is never in question....
...And he scored those melodies in the most ravishing tone colours: Charles Rosen has written that Mozart was a far greater orchestrator than Beethoven....
...His final bash promises to be a vintage one, with Abbado, Charles Mackerras and Simon Rattle heading the music line-up, world premieres from playwright Anthony Neilson, composer Stuart MacRae and director...
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