Maybe Ligeti one day…

I wish I could promise to start blogging more regularly from now on but can’t just yet – still not enough time. But I’ve just stumbled into this item and posting it won’t require a whole lot of effort so why put it off?

A brand new interview with the pianist Piotr Anderszewski has been published on www.telegraph.co.uk today (probably in the printed version as well?). You can find the interview here. It’s quite short and rather superficial but Anderszewski has the reputation of a recluse and I don’t think interviews with him are very common. He does say some striking things, though. I especially like this part:

Sometimes when I’m practicing it feels as if the piano might actually eat me!

Two other tidbits:

sometimes the piano won’t sing enough. But that is also the secret of this instrument

I wish someone would invent a piano I could play lying down, I would be so happy!

Plus there’s the quote I’ve taken for the title – which I intend to treat as a promise!

Also from today, and on the same site – there’s a rave review of Anderszewski’s newest album (Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall, on Virgin).