"The manner in which Judina performed the last sonata of the Bonn composer is particularly striking. The second part is of exceptional length and very boring, but she not at all feels its weight".
This is the curious comment by Shostakovich on the exceptional performance of his classmate.
Judina's ideas …
"You are far from God, you should get closer to Him".
With this words Maria Judina addressed Igor Stravinsky.
They accidentally met in a cemetery and she was bent to the ground.
Maria Judina (Nevel, 1899 - Moscow, 1970), even today rather unknown in the Western countries, looks like an " old believer", with strong and anachronistic mystical and religious …
When the genius of Chopin begins to manifest itself?
In the month on July, 1826 Chopin, he was 16 years old, writes a b-flat minor Polonaise that belongs entirely to the so called Biedermeier stilistic world.
The first episode is influenced by the brilliant and whimsical ornamentation of composers such as Dussek, Hummel, Ries, …
"Only success can absolve me. And is right the success that condemns me to their eyes."
Thus Liszt wrote in 1839 to Marie d'Agoult, who had told him about concerns expressed on him by Chopin and Berlioz.
The success for Horowitz bursts like a bomb in 1926: in Hamburg, then in Paris, then in …
The modernist ideology that guided the interpretation of music in the second half of the twentieth century tried in every way to understand the will and the intentions of the author so that the interpreter would carry them out scrupulously and faithfully.
Today, in the first half of the following century, this ideology is …