Classical Music for Aficionados
@rvpiano RV have had a few listens to young Grosvenor's Liszt recital and yes he certainly does great things with the Sonata and most other things. I don't think he has the way with the three Petrarch Sonnet's though as they seem quite distant and detached, have a listen to Arrau and it's a different ball game. |
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Ross, by then adept at the organ, entered the Nice Conservatory, where he delved into — and increasingly concentrated on — the harpsichord. “A friend and I used to let ourselves get locked in the conservatory at night,” he told an interviewer in 1986, “and we’d play Bach’s ‘Art of Fugue,’ four hands on a single instrument, until the janitor would kick us out at dawn.” " He Was a ‘Bad Boy’ Harpsichordist, and the Best of His AgeScott Ross, who would have turned 70 this year, died young of AIDS — but not before recording all 555 Scarlatti sonatas. "I am not much into harpsichord, but this man really had the touch.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/arts/music/scott-ross-harpsichord-classical-music.html?action=cli... |
