Tag: reviews
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On Michael Tippett’s Piano Sonata No. 2
Originally published in the Piano Tuners Association Newsletter, February 2022. https://pianotuner.org.uk I see mirrors, Myriad upon myriad moving The dark forms Of creation —King Priam, Act 3 Scene IV ‘All things fall and are built again and those that build them are gay’: so the words of W. B. Yeats conclude the final act of The Midsummer…
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Einojuhani Rautavaara: the Gift of Dreams
Originally published in the Piano Tuners Association Newsletter, June 2021. https://pianotuner.org.uk “For beauty really is nothing, but the beginning of terror we are only just able to bear” “Denn das Schöne ist nichts als des Schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen” —Rainer Maria Rilke In the summer of 1939, Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) [AY-no-yu-hah-ni ROW-ta-vah-ra]…
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