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Alfred Brendel

Music Matters: Alfred Brendel

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Music: Classical

19/09/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Alfred Brendel

Pianist Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service about his life, career and new book on music.

In a rare interview Tom Service talks to pianist Alfred Brendel, renowned interpreter of Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven, about his life, career and new book on music.

Starting a new season of Music Matters, Tom Service talks - in a rare interview - to one of the most respected musicians of our time: pianist Alfred Brendel. Despite retiring from the concert hall in 2008, he's regarded as one of the major interpreters of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart. Brendel, now 84, has always been a deep thinker and an insightful writer on music, as well as a poet - literature is his second passion after music. Tom discusses music, art and life with Brendel at a time when the pianist is publishing 'Music, Sense and Nonsense', a new book of collected essays and lectures.

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