26/11/2025
"I played piano duets with Faure and I gave many first performances of the new works of these important composers. I had also the opportunity to meet George Enescu, that phenomenal musician, who took me as his pianist on several tours. Playing his sonatas for violin and piano with him was an unforgettable musical experience, and I cannot express my gratitude enough for having been able to develop as a pianist and artist during those most interesting and important years in Paris."
I insist on the 'musical contour', the design of each phrase. Just as in my own playing, I insist that the pianist should learn to hear in the mind, to follow in his imagination the phrase as it starts and moves along from note to note, listening intensely to the intervals of the design. If a phrase...
