A virtuoso pianist performs a rare and powerful composition, showcasing the versatility and expressiveness of the pianoforte.
Virtuoso pianists often get eccentric ideas – their vertiginous work seems to attract eccentrics – so no one should have been surprised by the programme the– tapped into the widespread popularity for such reductions in the days before recording. For how else would people in the 19th century ever hear such works? Symphony were then – as now – lumbering beasts costing a fortune to transport, and the new-fangled pianoforte was a cheap, versatile, and thrillingly live alternative.
The rest of the recital consisted of an American piece requiring crazy courage on the part of its player. Provocatively titled, this work comes at the audience with the combined force of all the battles its radically political composer Frederic Rzewski was fighting at the time he wrote it.
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