Complete the quotation as you see fit.
It headlines a lovely profile of Mahan Esfahani in today’s Independent newspaper.
And since these things tend to come in threes, we’ve just received two immortal classics of a pianist who slams it.
Check this
and this (especially at 3:52)
He’ll go far.
h/t: Zsolt Bognar
The Syracuse Opera Company has filed for bankruptcy,…
A barely recognisable version of Puccini’s last opera…
Fans have uploaded a performance of Schubert’s four-hand…
This is the forbidding Erich Leinsdorf, conducting the…
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…sentenced to a night in the slammer!
allowed to play only on a balsawood keyboard (preferably a silent one)
nailed to the piano lid through the 2nd knuckles.
WTF? —-> In this case meaning “Why The Fist?”
Just dreadful. Never mind the fist at 3:52, what about the fistfulls of wrong notes. Sadly such people do the great Liszt an enormous disservice. Who is it anyway?
This is possibly the most ante-Liszt interpretation I have heard!
Not only it is tasteless and unmusical but it is full of wrong notes and harmonies.
Just unbelievable that this guy gets many viewings now for such a butchery due to this article with one slaming sentence taken out of context…
I would have preferred some Bach with the excellent Mahan Esfahani, Mr Lebrecht!!