Post by petrolino on Dec 21, 2019 22:34:27 GMT
Pianist Abbey Simon has died aged 99.
"It’s just a question of having a whole variety of music to play. You’re stuck with one piece when you play a piano concerto, whether it’s a Beethoven concerto, a Rachmaninoff concerto, a Mozart concerto, and it goes by rather fast. In a recital, one has seventy-five or eighty minutes to do as one wishes, which is a marvelous thing to be able to do! Unfortunately, everybody writes these terrible things that nobody’s interested in recitals. I think they’re all mad, of course. I don’t believe a word of it. The recital is the true test of an artist, and in point of fact, there are very few great recitalists floating around at the moment."
- Abbey Simon, speaking at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on February 19, 1988
'A Conversation With Abbey Simon' (2009, Documentary - Tim Duquette)
'Piano Sonata No. 3, op. 58 in B minor' by Frederic Chopin
R.I.P.