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...Sandor, he's nearing the achievement of the legendary Mieczyslaw Horszowski, who continued to perform at the piano after his 100th birthday. Horszowski's mother had studied with a pupil of Frederic Chopin, and she gave her son his first lessons in 1895, when he was 3. In Horszowski's 98th year of musicmaking, people marveled at his longevity and were even more impressed by his artistry. Sandor explains Horszowski's endurance with the confidence of an insider. "I tell people that the first 90 years are hard," he says. "After that, it's easy...
...dazzling. Perahia imparted to the main theme of the allegretto middle movement the proper sense of graceful ghostliness, and played the living daylights out of the trio, but the real jawdropper here was the presto rondo finale. In an interview with WHRB, Perahia revealed that, studying under Miecyslaw Horszowski, he practiced his Leschetisky method like a good little boy. Nowhere was it more obvious than in these astonishingly clean, carefully controlled, and virtually unpedalled runs...
...record their sounds-"truthful witnesses of early musical culture," Curator Emanuel Winternitz calls them-and pipe them into headphones for visitors. To start a series of recitals in the museum's auditorium in which professional musicians will demonstrate the capacities of rare items in the collection, Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski has already played the oldest piano in existence, a 1721 creation by the Florentine Bartolommeo Cristofori...
Alert and active as ever, Cellist Pablo Casals celebrated his 94th birthday in San Juan, P.R., by joining Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski in a performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor. Rhapsodized Schneider: "Don Pablo played it as beautifully as he did ten years ago-no, 40 years ago." Later, at the official mansion of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Ferre, it was Casals' turn to hear other musicians give a recital in his honor. "It was all wonderful music," he said. Casals was eminently qualified to be a critic; included in the selections...
...yawning," wrote a Viennese society reporter in 1788, describing the winter-long rash of amateur performances of Mozart's new piano quartets by "this and that princess." Now the two quartets are listed among Mozart's finest works and are given pristine performances by Polish Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski and the violinist, violist and cellist of the Budapest String Quartet...