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Book SynopsisThese 48 interviews conducted during the 1980s and '90s with some of the great pianists of our time first appeared in the "Piano Journal" (published by the European Piano Teachers' Association). The contributors provide fascinating and illuminating insights about their experiences: their first encounters with the piano, then as students and later as performers and teachers - handing down ideas and traditions through the generations which is central to the world of piano teaching and performance.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Louis Kentner; Murray Perahia; The Menuhins – Jeremy, Yaltah, Hephzibah; Radu Lupu; Fanny Waterman; Vladimir Ashkenazy; Vlado Perlemuter; Russell Sherman; Jorge Bolet; Joseph Bloch; Maurice Hinson; Kendall Taylor; Edith Picht-Axenfeld; Shura Cherkassky; Magda Tagliaferro; Reginald Gerig; Bernard Roberts; Tamas Vasary; John Lill; Ronald Smith; Earl Wild; John Ogden; Fou Ts’Ong; Peter Frankl; Abbey Simon; Joseph Banowetz; Jerome Rose; Cecile Ousset; Ian Hobson; Aldo Ciccolini; Leslie Howard; John Parry; Fernando Laires & Nelita True; Moura Lympany; Andras Schiff; Melvyn Tan; Gaby Casadesus; Menahem Pressler; Barry Douglas; Dominique Merlet; Martino Tirimo; Garrick Ohlsson; Peter Feuchtwanger, teacher of David Helfgott; Nancy Lee Harper; Diane Andersen; Irina Ossipova; The Glasnost Experience
