#RIP Alfred Brendel
📷 Betty Freeman
"I familiarise myself with a piece & wait for it to tell me what it's about, & what makes it a masterpiece."
Beethoven, Sonata in C minor, op. 111:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxFLvCVbVM
📷 Betty Freeman
"I familiarise myself with a piece & wait for it to tell me what it's about, & what makes it a masterpiece."
Beethoven, Sonata in C minor, op. 111:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxFLvCVbVM
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So far I've encountered one (1) other person who felt the same way.
📷 Sophia Evans
"Perhaps no other pianist of our time has so willfully avoided the ordinary channels to success & formulas for stardom & still arrived at the top of his profession."
- Bernard Holland
I love this shot of him playing with his cat Minnie. Haven't been able to track down a photographer credit.
📷 Calle Hesslefors, 1981
"A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast."
Mozart's Piano Sonata in C minor, K. 457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA8m1QPv1yQ
Listening to his 1974 recording of Schubert’s D major sonata, D. 850
A nice cover portrait by Michael Evans
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvAGgX7C58&si=qmID1XWp3QrezcB1