All hands to the joanna

The Independent - London | May 10, 1996| | Copyright

For subverting composers' intentions, Joanna MacGregor's Queen Elizabeth Hall recital on Sunday afternoon must surely take the biscuit. Bach's toweringly complex Art of Fugue was written as a musico-philosophical exercise, and not designed for concert performance. Most of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies were written for the player-piano: no player with a mere 10 digits could dream of rendering the multiple layers - and disparate rhythms - of their jazzy contrapuntalism. So a big hand - no, eight big hands - for this intrepid keyboard virtuoso, as she limbers up for the challenge. But how will ...

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