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Planet Hugill’s roving music correspondent, Tony Cooper, reports on Berlin’s Festtage
[…] the Franco-Swiss pianist, Alfred Cortot, who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. He was especially valued for his poetic insight into the romantic piano works particularly those of Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Schumann.The Fantaisie, by the way, is Debussy’s only composition for piano and orchestra and though written in a three-movement form it was not composed as a piano concerto. Debussy kindly dedicated the work to the French pianist, René Chansarel, who was the soloist engaged to play at the cancelled première in 1890.I found it an extremely interesting, fulfilling and fascinating work and in some ways the concert proved to be slightly nostalgic for me as I have only seen Martha Argerich play on one occasion and that was donkey’s years ago when she made her Edinburgh Festival début in a solo recital in the late 1960s while Barenboim, incidentally, made his début as […]
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