Publisher's Synopsis
The rich musical life of Moscow is displayed in these memoirs where formidable Russian pianists take the world by storm revealing by their virtuosity and musicianship the continuation of a great pianistic tradition. Dmitry Paperno was a witness to a golden age of the piano when the celebrated schools of Moscow produced a stream of great pianists ä Gilels Richter Ashkenazy ä and he tells his and their stories here. HARDCOVER.