Piano Notes
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Charles Rosen, himself a pianist as well as a music critic, explores the piano and its music in seven essays about topics ranging from Bach and Beethoven, to the problems with competitions, to a catalogue of the ills that can plague a piano and interfere with a performance.
Reviews...
Kirkus
(09/15/2002)
"Lively exegetical writing, particularly for laypeople, even if trying to make known the sheer physical pleasure of playing is akin to explaining the sensation of color without recourse to sight."
Literary Review
(August 2003)
- by Waugh, Alexander
"[A] rich minefield of attitude and dispersed information....Personally, I was delighted by the author`s counsel on practising....By the very nature of the piano nut`s discursiveness, most of what Charles Rosen has to say in this book will doubtless be quibbled over, but that...reveals more about his readers than about Rosen and his excellent new work. He has a clever and original mind, able to refute what is seemingly obvious from a virtuosic variety of new angles--an important and refreshing addendum to the piano maniac`s spiralling collection."
New York Review of Books
(10/23/2003)
- by Winter, Robert
"If your shelves have room for one volume about the piano from glory to decline, PIANO NOTES is the book of choice."
Times Literary Supplement
(10/10/2003)
- by Hewitt, Angela
"Although a book of this sort demands a certain level of musical knowledge, there is much in it that can be appreciated by anyone who is interested in the piano and its world. There should be more musicians like Rosen who are willing and able to write about their experiences with such precision and passion."
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ISBN-10: 0743243129
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General
Genres & Styles / Classical
Piano - Performance
