Kevin Bazzana talks maverick pianists (Part 1) - Improvising pianists, the end of the golden era of piano playing, Rosalyn Tureck, Sviatoslav Richter, Glenn Gould and more!


Kevin Bazzana
Maverick Pianists and Glenn Gould (the first part of two programs featuring Kevin Bazzana) 

Air Date: 6 August 2011, repeated on 9 August 2011, 11.30 a.m.





Two programs about pianists and all things piano related - for pianophiles, as well as those of you who don't know much about piano music, classical piano recordings or great pianists! 


LISTEN TO PART 1 - Kevin Bazzana on maverick pianists and Glenn Gould

LISTEN TO PART 2 - Kevin Bazzana on maverick pianists and Glenn Gould


In the first of two consecutive programs about maverick pianists and piano music, Canadian Music Historian and Biographer Kevin Bazzana talks to Karishmeh about the end of the golden age of piano playing, improvising and maverick pianists, as well as the subjects of his first biography - Glenn Gould. Bazzana is the author of the award-winning, definitive biography of Glenn Gould "Wondrous Strange", and Karishmeh Felfeli, who blogs about Glenn Gould on her own Glenn Gould Project website, discusses some of the Canadian pianist's most interesting interpretations.
 


Rosalyn Tureck
Sviatoslav Richter
Mitsuko Uchida

PLAYLIST
Grieg - Nocturne - Ervin Nyiregyhazi *


Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2, Movement 2 - Sergei Rachmaninoff *
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (conducted by Stravinsky)*
Scriabin - Prelude, op 11, no. 13 - Alexander Scriabin*
Chopin - Minute Waltz - Vladimir de Pachmann

Chopin - Minute Waltz - Ignaz Friedman
Glenn Gould
Chopin - Minute Waltz - Sergei Rachmaninoff
J.S. Bach - Sarabande from English Suite No. 4 - Sviatoslav Richter *
J.S. Bach - Sarabande from English Suite No. 4 - Glenn Gould
J.S. Bach - Fugue in G Major, The Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 - Rosalyn Tureck
J.S. Bach - Fugue in G Major, The Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 - Glenn Gould
W.A.Mozart - Sonata in F Major, K. 332, Movt 1 - Mitsuko Uchida*
W.A.Mozart - Sonata in F Major, K. 332, Movt 1 - Glenn Gould*
Glenn Gould plays Bach, Beethoven, Brahms - Leonard Bernstein and Glenn Gould talk about their so called "controversial" Brahms collaboration *
Richard Strauss -  Piano Sonata in B Minor, Movt 2 - Glenn Gould*
Brahms - Intermezzo, op. 119, No. 1 - Glenn Gould


All works marked with * are extracts, the rest of the musical examples are complete recordings.

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Get your hands on Wondrous Strange - the Glenn Gould biography by Kevin Bazzana



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