Dear Great Pianists group,

did anyone else catch the Reading [ England ] recital by Piotr
Anderszewski on
6/October/2002?

Although people seem to be starting to take notice of Anderszewski,
with the prize and everything, the hall was still far from full.
I find it hard to understand why people are not falling over
themselves to hear this pianist.
I made a 500 mile round trip for the concert, and felt it was
comfortably worth the effort.

After a very fine Diabelli in the first half (who else would START
with the Diabelli!?) we got 50 minutes of top class Bach in the
second half. The published programme said 3 Preludes and Fugues
(Bk 2 numbers 21-3) and Partita number 1. In fact he replaced the
Partita with English Suite number 6 - a very generous swap!

There are very few pianists around these days who can approach
Anderszewski's level of concentration. And he certainly knows what
he is doing.

So why are people not interested? This is a great artist!

Pete Taylor