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I love artists who attempt the impossible

I love artists who attempt the impossible

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

I love artists who attempt the impossible. Within reason, that is. I’d draw the line at someone playing the 32 Beethoven sonatas one-handed, or the 15 Shostakovich quartets without a bathroom break. But any artist who takes a piece of music beyond the limits of what I’d heard in it before gets my vote.

The American cellist Zlatomir Fung has composed a fantasy  on Janacek’s opera Jenufa, a feat that defies credibility….

 

More here.

 

En Francais ici.

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