Happy birthday, Malcolm Bilson! Born this day in 1935.
Who he, you ask?
Well, he’s a longtime member of the Cornell Musick Department, a trailblazer period performance guy and more or less the dean of the fortepiano. I consider Bilson’s recording of the complete cycle of Mozart’s piano concerti with John Eliot Full of Himself Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists to be the best available, and would heartily recommend them to anybody.
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October 24, 2008 at 8:18 pm
jen
Actually, the Bible calls all who believe in Christ saints. Paul is one who used this term often in his epistles when referring to the church.
October 25, 2008 at 12:16 am
The Bovina Bloviator
For me, the sound of a fortepiano is far too similar to the rinky-tink pianos used in barroom scenes in Hollywood oaters. I’ll take a Steinway D, thanks.
October 25, 2008 at 2:52 am
Robbo
D’ya mean like the one Mozart himself played?
Of course, it’s all a matter of taste, but I have always been fascinated by what one might call original intent when it comes to musick.
October 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm
bovinabloviator
Yep, the very one. Call me a Philistine.