How many pianos is too many?
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at all. Not to mention Schumann and Brahms, or the feeble anti-critic jokes made by Wagner, Mahler and Richard Strauss.
So it was in a wary frame of mind that I approached a frisky album…
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
Why not “Hexameron” by Liszt?
I read recently that Bruckner students Lowe and Schalk were going around Germany playing four-hand versions of his symphonies to conductors to drum up interest.
Somehow that worked!
Is there any composer today who’s earned that much devotion from anyone in his circle, besides his mother?
When did Mozart become German? If he was German, so was Haydn and nobody has ever accused him of lacking a sense of humour.