Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
Piano Portraits
By Michael Kimmelman
Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer
translated by Richard Stokes
Cornell University Press, 275 pp., $29.95
Mozart Piano Sonatas, K. 310, K. 311, and K. 533/494; Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397
Alfred Brendel, pianist
Philips, 289 473 689-2 / $15.99
Alfred Brendel Live in Salzburg
Alfred Brendel, pianist
Philips, 289 470 023-2 / $15.99
Dreizehn Engel/Thirteen Angels: Poems by Alfred Brendel; Etchings, Drawings, and Sculptures by George Nama
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Elisabeth Kashey
an exhibition at Shepherd & Derom Galleries, New York,April 1–April 30, 2003
61 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Vladimir de Pachmann: A Piano Virtuoso's Life and Art
by Mark Mitchell
Indiana University Press, 231 pp., $37.95
Pachmann, the Mythic Pianist: 1907–1927 Recordings
Arbiter 129 / $14.25
Some years ago Alfred Brendel published the essay 'Must Classical Music Be Entirely Serious?' The question was amusing coming from Brendel, whose seriousness has exemplified the loftiest aspirations of classical music performance during the last half-century. Then again, as Brendel has spent his career demonstrating, to play Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert well requires both lofty aspirations and a healthy sense of humor.
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