I read an interview with him on the tube today. I'd not heard of him before but he seems to be a bit of a big-wig pianist by all accounts - and very eccentric in his attitude to just about everything. Apparantly he hates recording stuff and finds most pianos he's asked to use for concerts to be 'sick'. He also thinks 'technique' is a total joke and questions whether Beethoven was deaf at all. I'm totally fascinated by him now. Anyone know his stuff?
Apparantly those in the UK can hear him perform Bach's Partita No.2 in C minor, BWV 826; Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, Op.111; Brahms' Klavierstucke, Op.19 and Szymanowski's Variations on a Polish Theme, Op.10 in three UK performances at the end of this month, starting at
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester on 23rd May, then
The Anvil, Basingstoke on 25th May and finally at the
Royal Festival Hall in London on 27th May.
Edit: Some Links:
http://www.harrisonparrott.com/artis...n_Zimerman.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9tMFnKIij4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7eUSFsn28
Would like to hear some of his own stuff but can't find any.