Lifetime honour for the world’s best-loved pianist
mainWe are thrilled to report that Echo Klassik will give an award for lifetime achievement next month to Menahem Pressler, pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio for 55 years and now an international soloist.
Menahem, 91, is revered by four generations of musicians as a teacher, a thinker and a life-enhancing friend.
You can hear my BBC Lebrecht Interview with him here.
l-r: Ivry Gitlis, Paavo Järvi, Menahem Pressler
Is that Ivy Gitlis on the left? And Putin in the middle?
And in my view the greatest living musician.
Putin, you mean?
The greatest living musician is that one in yourself. The second greatest musician is the one you can actually hear.
Beautiful news and entirely deserved.
He’s a bit of a newcomer and upstart, but I’m sure it’s well-deserved.