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A Master of Mute Forms

  • February 24, 2019

The story of twentieth-century art is crowded with chastened and disabused idealists. How could it be otherwise? Each of the great movements—Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, Futurism, Dadaism,...

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Busoni’s Piano Leviathan

  • February 24, 2019

Ferruccio Busoni’s remarkable Piano Concerto from 1904 may be the longest concerto ever written for any instrument. It may also be the most challenging. It demands nearly superhuman stamina and virtuosity of...