Archive for April, 2009
Krystian Zimerman outburst
This article in the Grauniad about his public expression of discontent with US foreign policy made me think that I really ought to spend more money on recordings by Krystian Zimerman.
The paragraphs that most caught my attention are near the end, and tell you everything you need to know about the ridiculous heights of paranoia [...]Presto Classical
A quick word of appreciation for the marvellous Presto Classical in Leamington Spa: granted, it may sometimes be a bit more expensive to go to a specialist shop than to obtain your CDs from Amazon and the like, but my experience of Presto Classical is that they’re the kind of independent record shop that we [...]
Silence
Apologies for the recent silence; I am still recovering from an operation on my right hand which, as you can probably imagine, put a bit of a spanner in the works with regard to playing the piano. Everything still works, though, apart from some nerve damage here and there, and I hope to start posting [...]