The British pianist, Nicholas McCarthy, who was born without a right hand, has been signed to Warner Classics.
Nicholas, 26, will record arrangements by Paul Wittgenstein, and some of his own, for release in September.
The Mozart concerto due to be played three…
The Manhattan School of Music this morning quietly…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The Theater an der Wien, back home after…
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And a Nocturne by Nigel Hess, being commissioned especially for the album.
But have they heard him?……..!
I hope he will not play Wittgenstein’s “arrangement” of Ravel’s left hand Concerto!
He’s really something — a nice coup. And he’ll be a good prompt for the creation of more LH rep for piano. It’s a good thing he’s a natural late Romantic stylist; if he had a natural bent for Baroque, he’d be in a bad way, but he’s got a nice, almost aristocratically “casual” style that’s just right for the sort of rep he’d play.