A composer to dispel Covid gloom
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Gustav Mahler, who disliked flashy soloists, used to say that his mood picked up if he saw Busoni’s name on the program. The Italian-Austrian, half-Jewish piano virtuoso and ambitious opera composer was a voracious intellectual and bibliomane who could talk philosophy all night long, studding his conversation (like his music) with jokes…
More here.
And here.
En francais ici.
In Czech here.
In The Critic here.
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