Paul Badura-Skoda

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"Alas, our new century has no Schnabel, Kempff or Fischer to keep this particular torch lit. Badura-Skoda, just past his 75th birthday, may very well be the last in line... About midway through, I realized that what was absent was the sum total of all of the bad habits of that horde of pianists spawned after 1950. The Schubert A Minor Sonata D845 is played in a totally Classical manner, somewhat revolutionary today, when all late Schubert is romanticized almost to the point of transformation... For the young, it could be an essential revelation, although one that might sound foreign at the outset. Paul Badura-Skoda’s role in our fragile musical society may be most important as that of the art restorer, cleaning away decades of grime to reveal the true masterpiece underneath."
01/03/2005, Frederick L. Kirshnit, concerto.com

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