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Los Angeles Times
Remembering 'A Born God' Among Singers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
NPR (blog)
As time went on, the admiration only increased for this musician's musician: Fischer-Dieskau partnered with such pianistic legends as Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Horowitz, Daniel Barenboim and Alfred Brendel. The baritone's very first recording, ...
The Voice That Made You Fall in Love With LiederNew York Times
Renowned baritone Fischer-Dieskau dead at 86Reuters
Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died aged 86Limelight Magazine
Telegraph.co.uk
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard Performs Liszt at Alice Tully Hall
New York Times
Mr. Aimard has, to a large extent, taken over the role of the keyboard's deep thinker from Alfred Brendel, with Jeremy Denk and Jonathan Biss in hot pursuit (not that there must be only one). His programs are typically built to look beyond how striking ...


 
Leaving ego aside, Paul Lewis gets to the heart of Schubert's piano works
Chicago Tribune
The music's introspective depths were fully plumbed, with a tonal finish worthy of his mentor, Alfred Brendel. Everywhere in this sonata Lewis conveyed the acute sense of depression and loss Schubert must have felt toward the end of his brief life.

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BBC News
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida given classical honour
BBC News
Dame Mitsuko will join modern-day gold medallists including Alfred Brendel, Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Placido Domingo and Daniel Barenboim. She will be presented with the medal at the RPS Awards in London on 8 May. The 63-year-old was born in ...

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An older, wiser Lang Lang brings artistry to the Opera House
Chicago Tribune
It would be useless to pretend that Lang Lang, at nearly 30, knows what Alfred Brendel or Clifford Curzon at 60 knew about the composer's late piano music. But one wondered if in trying to convey the otherworldly spirituality implicit in Schubert's ...

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Korea Times
From child prodigy to virtuoso, no shortcuts
Korea Times
Kim's philosophy for piano is strikingly similar to Alfred Brendel's, the legendary Austrian who retired a few years ago. “There are too many pianists in the world... If you want to show something that only you can do, and you're really obsessed about ...


 
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Imogen Cooper to present a program of pieces she loves to bits at Gilmore ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Instead of going to college or academy, Cooper was mentored by Alfred Brendel in Vienna for a few years. She began her career in her 20s, but things took a while for her, unlike "the way careers go now days," Cooper said. She's in the extreme -- or ...

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