A fine recital from a veteran pianist enjoying an Indian summer in his new solo career
This concert featuring Menahem Pressler, the veteran pianist from the now retired Beaux Arts Trio, was recorded in 2011 when he was 88 years of age. Remarkably, his technical as well as his musical faculties remain at a very high level indeed. In the very detailed sleeve notes, which amount to his life history, he comments that he is now busier than ever having ceased his trio activities.
This is a demanding program and one that resonates strongly with his own history. The opening Beethoven sonata, for example, recalls his earlier days when he fainted during a piano lesson while playing it. This was partly the result of a lack of nourishment coupled with close identification with the emotional content of the piece as he conceived it. The music of Debussy relates to his winning a Debussy competition which was held out of sight of the judges. Little did they know that his repertoire of Debussy hardly existed at all beyond the competition pieces!
This recital,...
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Very wonderful disc! I was astonished at the moment that Pressler's piano sound entered into my ears. That sound is sincerely warm and heartful. I felt as if embraced with affluent humanity and tenderness which we have rarely gotten recently in this world.
Each of the music pieces played in this disc is favorately expressed in view of the characteristic and attractiveness in each of them.
You would certainly feel deep love and pleasure!
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