Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005

The Undefeated

By Michael Kimmelman
William Kapell Edition
by William Kapell

RCA Red Seal, nine CDs, $123.98

'The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining,' wrote the American pianist William Kapell to a friend, the pianist Shirley Rhoads, from Australia, where he was unhappily on tour in 1953.



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