Balzac and burritos

Those who heard pianist Jeremy Denk pair Bach's "Goldberg Variations" with Charles Ives' First Sonata last spring at the University of Richmond will experience a kind of prose postscript in Vivien Schweitzer's profile of this literate, quirky, seriously funny cultural omnivore, in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/arts/music/03denk.html?ref=music

On his latest recording, Denk plays Ives' First and "Concord" sonatas. You can access a downloadable (i-Tunes) version via "Think Denk," the pianist's blog:

http://jeremydenk.net/blog/