The Composer-Pianists - Robert Rimm - Bog

In ÊThe Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The EightÊ Robert Rimm writes about eight legendary enigmatic and interrelated composer-pianists of the instrument''s golden age and goes on to consider their present-day advocate and astounding interpreter Marc-Andr© Hamelin whose dynamic playing and engaging personality immediately impressed Rimm upon their first encounter. Rimm portrays The Eight (Alkan Busoni Feinberg Godowsky Medtner Rachmaninov Scriabin and Sorabji) as the piano''s aural sensualists and explores the relationships among their music their music-making their ideas and their lives.