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Kevin Bazzana
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
The most balanced and probing of the many wonderful biographies of a great genius.
Alan Rusbridger
Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible As the former editor of the excellent paper The Guardian, Rusbridger can ask every classical master how they play Chopin’s “Governess” Ballade, as he learns it himself over a year, in between covering the major stories of the era. This witty book turns what mightseem a specialized and pedantic effort into an adventure that’s impossible to put down.
David Dubal
Evenings with Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
Nikolai Grozni
Wunderkind
This is a Bulgarian Holden Caulfield (who in real life studied at Brown) loose in the Sofia Conservato- ry, getting in trouble with apparatchiks, girls, and pianos, interspersed with emotional and original descriptions of playing Chopin.
Paul Roberts
Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy
From paulrobertspiano.com: “This book...relates the piano music of Debussy to the cultural background of Paris at the dawn of the twentieth century. It has become a seminal text on the subject, admired by scholars, teachers, and concert pianists all over the world.”
Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel
Written by a master pianist, this book, like his Debussy volume, tells you about the stories and the era that inspired Ravel to write his challenging Im- pressionist études.
Harold C. Schonberg
The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present
Schonberg’s sense of wonder and his idolatry of speed might have turned concerts into spectacles, but his enthusiasm is a lot of fun, and he set the standard for virtuosity as a sport.
Thad Carhart
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
I had a similar experience myself in a maison particulière near the Place des Vosges in Paris, run by Daniel Magne, the son of Messiaen’s technician, where I found a piano that was the twin of one of Horowitz’s. A wonderful book about not just pianos, but also Paris.
Lang Lang
Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story
Lang Lang’s father suggested he throw himself off
a balcony when he came in second at a competi- tion. He wept when he realized that his apartment at Curtis was just for him, not for twenty students. China tried to replace him at his own concert at the last minute with another prodigy. This is an extraordinary and difficult journey through enormous sacrifices, told with compelling honesty.
Oscar Levant
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
Levant said of himself, “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” The inspiration for Peter Sellers’s character in The World of Henry Orient, Levant was an acid wit who made hypochondria into a profession; an excellent pianist, his name was synonymous with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, but he also recorded music by Debussy, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Khachaturian.
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