Rudolf Serkin, A Life.(Book Review)

Notes | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

By Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. [xii, 332 p. ISBN 0-19-513046-4. $35.] Illustrations, discography, bibliography, index, compact disc.

The first piano recital that I ever attended was given by Rudolf Serkin at Hunter College in New York City in the 1960s. It was the first time that I heard the Brahms "Handel" Variations and even more impressive, the Beethoven "Appassionata" at the end of which Serkin seemed to emerge victorious from the music's furious struggle. It is the visual aspect of that recital that remains the ...

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