Music: Ten Pianists, Briefly

AS I’ve argued before, this is not a great age for pianists-but there are great pianists in it, and many good ones. We’ll touch on ten pianists, looking in on their recent recordings.

They’re recording Mozart concertos like mad. As you know, this is a “Mozart year,” the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Mozart recordings are plentiful in any year; this year there is a veritable glut.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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AS I’ve argued before, this is not a great age for pianists-but there are great pianists in it, and many good ones. We’ll touch on ten pianists, looking in on their recent recordings.

They’re recording Mozart concertos like mad. As you know, this is a “Mozart year,” the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Mozart recordings are plentiful in any year; this year there is a veritable glut.