Monday, December 15, 2008

On Brendel's retirement


British pianist Imogen Cooper salutes her onetime teacher, Alfred Brendel, on his retirement from the concert stage. "He has always had a tremendous sense of vocation, a mission to transmit what he knows and what he feels," Cooper writes in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/15/alfred-brendel-pianist-classical-music1