wed 28 dec 2011 21:00 hrs
From practice to art.
In part XV of the series about piano etudes we had started with the walking Russian anachronism Sergei Bortkiewicz, who lived from 1877 to 1952. Cosmopolitan by nature he was forced by history to lead a wandering life. We will start this broadcast when he is at the verge of fleeing the Russia of short after the revolution. To make a living Bortkiewicz gave many piano lessons, also to childeren. And to earn something extra he wrote many short, simple pieces in the style of Schumann’s Kinderzenen. Sweet music.
