Brazil mourns leading pianist
RIPThe eminent pianist and professor Luiz Carlos de Moura Castro has died after a long, wasting illness. He was 84.
Applying himself as much to Brazilian composers as to all others, he taught at at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Conservatori Superior del Liceu in Barcelona and Pro Arte Seminarios de Musica in Rio de Janeiro. He made more than 50 recordings.
The late Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda said of Moura Castro: ‘In 60 years, I have never heard such Liszt playing. Under Luiz’s hands the piano sometimes became a voice, an orchestra, an organ.’
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