Great Pianists and Pedagogues in conversation with Carola Grindea

These 48 interviews, conducted during the 1980s and ?90s with some of the great pianists of our time, first appeared in the Piano Journal (published by the European Piano Teachers? Association). The contributors provide fascinating and illuminating comments about their experiences, their first encounters with the piano, then as students themselves and later as performers and teachers ? handing down musical ideas and traditions through the generations which is
central to the world of piano teaching and performance.
The interviews range over many subjects ? from edagogical and performance styles to the value of competitions. An important theme throughout is a discussion of what has become known as the ?peak experience? or ?flow?; those
occasions, accompanied by a loss of fear, inhibition or insecurity, when mind and body are one and the music seems to flow effortlessly through the instrument.
The contributors, all great names in the piano world, are mostly active performers, but also included are some notable pedagogues.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Louis Kentner
Murray Perahia
The Menuhins
- Jeremy
- Yaltah
- Hephzibah
Radu Lupu
Fanny Waterman
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vlado Perlemuter
Rusell Sherman
Jorge Bolet
Joseph Bloch
Maurice Hinson
Kendall Taylor
Edith Picht-Axenfeld
Shura Cherkassky
Magda Tagliaferro
Reginald Gerig
Bernard Roberts
Tamas Vasary
John Lill
Ronald Smith
Earl Wild
John Ogdon
Fou Ts'Ong
Peter Frankl
Abbey Simon
Joseph Banowetz
Jerome Rose
Cecile Ousset
Ian Hobson
Aldo Ciccolini
Leslie Howard
John Parry
Fernando Laires & Nelita True
Moura Lympany
Andras Schiff
Melvyn Tan
Gaby Casadesus
Menahem Pressler
Barry Douglas
Dominique Merlet
Martino Tirimo
Garrick Ohlsson
Peter Feuchtwanger, teacher of David Helfgott
Nancy Lee Harper
Diane Andersen
Irina Ossipova
The Glassnost Experience