‘It’s possible to have performed a piece too much, to have played it to the point of unconscious routine’ | Kenneth Hamilton column

Kenneth Hamilton
Friday, March 8, 2024

In a new column for International Piano, the pianist, writer and musicologist Kenneth Hamilton reflects on a throwaway remark from a fellow pianist and writer, the late Charles Rosen, and asks: can we sometimes play ‘too well’?

Kenneth Hamilton
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