Culture: Cd Review - Brahms and History ; Backhaus: Brahms Solo Piano Works - (Naxos 8.111041)

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Wilhelm Backhaus, mercurial in youth, thoughtful and reflective in later years, was one of the major and most long-lived pianists of the last century.

Born in 1884 and dying as recently as 1969, he had an extensive recording career, and one which included the first-ever recording of a piano concerto (an abridged version of the Grieg in 1909).

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Culture: Cd Review - Brahms and History ; Backhaus: Brahms Solo Piano Works - (Naxos 8.111041)

The excellent and perennially useful 1985 Dictionary of Pianists by Wilso...

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