THE COMPOSER-PIANISTS

In ÊThe Composer Pianists Hamelin and The EightÊ Robert Rimm writes about eight legendary enigmatic and interrelated composer pianists of the instrument s golden age and goes on to consider their present day advocate and astounding interpreter Marc Andr Hamelin whose dynamic playing and engaging personality immediately impressed Rimm upon their first encounter Rimm portrays The Eight Alkan Busoni Feinberg Godowsky Medtner Rachmaninov Scriabin and Sorabji as the piano s aural sensualists and explores the relationships among their music their music making their ideas and their lives