Fellner’s Beethoven cycle latest

Charles Downey’s blow-by-blow account of Till Fellner’s recent concert at the Austrian Embassy is in. ‘Fellner did not play on the Austrian Embassy’s Bösendorfer, favoring instead a Steinway borrowed locally and delivered especially for his recital. When asked after the recital if he had tried the Bösendorfer Fellner noted laconically, as he sipped a well-earned glass of beer, “Yes - burn it.”’

Anthony Tommasini covered the same concert for the New York Times

The next recital in Till Fellner’s piano sonata cycle at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be on 8 May; (1) 212 570-3949, metmuseum.org.

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