Let this post be evidence
that I still exist. After spending the summer resting and touring, practicing and rehearsing, flying and driving, eating (a lot) and drinking, playing concerts and listening to them, reading chamber music and reading books, I’m ready to convert it all into blog.
While I’m getting my house in order, here are some thoughts on Mozart, with clips from the CD, a few days in advance of its international release. (Release dates will vary by country.) More Mozart thoughts may follow - he looms large in my life these days…
September 13th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Dear Mr Biss,
I am the French musicologist who happened to sit next to you during the second part of your Budapest concert on 19th April. My wife and I very much enjoyed your Beethoven Concerto and we look forward to hearing you in Paris next March. I have long meant to send you two pictures my wife took of you while you were signing autographs. If you would like me to send them to you, could you please give me an Email address?
Yours sincerely,
Michel Noiray
September 16th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Supercool que t’existes et que tu blog(es?) encore.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:50 am
You’re a blog tease.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I bookmarked this guestbook. Thank you for good job!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Dear Jonathan,
Your Brahms 1st concert in Salt Lake was simply exquisite. I would love to have listened in on the practice session to hear Zukerman and you working out how to take various passages. The results were extraordinary - I was moved to tears by the beauty of the 2nd movement’s interpretation - how lovley! During intermission I bought the Mozart 21st and 22nd CD. This evening I gave it and a Horowitz recording of Mozart’s 23rd an intense listen and was struck by the similarity of the interpretaitons of these concerti. Pure pleasure! Thank you!
December 6th, 2009 at 7:05 am
No one plays Mozart like Jonathan Biss. Listening to his recent appearance on St. Paul Sunday was, for me, akin to the experience of Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. Transforming. Extraordinary elegance, with the underpinning of exceptionally pure simplicity and humility. A GREAt light on the musical horizon. One rejoices.