Berlin to stage Brendel fest
mainOld pianists don’t fade away.
They turn 85.
Time for a retro festival at the Konzerthaus Berlin next year with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lisa Batiashvili, Kit Armstrong and other Brendel followers on stage. Plans announced this morning.
He’s the dearest pianist to me, is Alfred Brendel. I went to a lecture of his in the Musikverein in 2011 just after he’d retired. What joy.
I will never understand those who don’t like his style of play. To me it is genius. His Schubert makes me cry.
Couldn’t agree more. I adore this!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkX4MyDeIqI
They don’t like it as it is always seen that the person is knowledgeable when they don’t, and they appear to be a bit superior over the rest of us who have a valid point of view as well, and perhaps actually know a bit more about it I loved his playing – and still do in recordings.
Here’s an interview done by Bruce Duffie in Chicago a while back when Alfred was visiting I suppose –
http://www.bruceduffie.com/brendel2.html
Brendel fascinates because he is the leading contemporary refutation of the Horowitz conjecture: “There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.”
Yes, I spent decades wrongly assuming AB was Jewish
A White person that’s witty? Impossible!