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Menahem Pressler in recital, 2018
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Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet with Quatuor Èbene
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The Beaux Arts Trio play Schubert
My first quality-time encounter with Menahem Pressler was at his elegant Chelsea home in London, over afternoon tea. He was 95. He told me about his passion for teaching, his love of Debussy’s music and his diary for the next season, which included recital appearances in Madrid, Bochum, at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and at the Oxford Piano Festival (not bad for a 96th year!).
Thereafter, I visited him on and off during those final years, once bumping into him at a Martha Argerich recital at the Wigmore Hall, masked up in Covid attire (nothing would stop him from attending a good concert). Every time I said my
