a lustrous-eyed mezzo and this piano dude

The Guardian Archival Bit of the Week is worth a look in here. The first part could as easily be a JDD fanperson's review from the more purple regions of the operawebs (It would be impossible to select terms of admiration too strong in which to speak of her “Non più mesta”...), but the show was a double-header (He was warmly applauded by many of the most accomplished amateurs in the town...).

experimental media

Robot facade

Heart of wood

Next stop for this fortepiano is Zankel Hall.

weekend agenda

"I've always been driven by a strong ideal in Mozart that the type of rhetorical landscape that he has, or that he's trying to emulate in his keyboard music specifically, is the landscape of theatre and of opera. And I don't mean any kind of hackneyed references to Figaro and Susanna being characters in a Mozart piano sonata, but the sense in which Mozart's landscape of gestures is paying homage to the type of naturally mercurial timing that you see in any good performance of an opera."



Fortepianist and BEMF regular Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Friday, Feb 21, at NEC's Jordan Hall, as part of the BEMF Concert Series, and Sunday, 4pm, down the other end of the Mass Pike at EMPAC.