“Like climbing an infinite stairway, one step at a time.”
Jeal, Erica, “Pavel Kolesnikov, the pianist making ‘a palace of sound built by your own imagination’”, The Guardian, 9 September 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/09/pavel-kolesnikov-the-pianist-making-a-palace-of-sound-built-by-your-own-imagination, accessed 11 September 2021.
—Pavel Kolesnikov, working on Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Pavel Kolesnikov on the Goldberg Variations
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