Fine Balance In Chopin Tribute

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Roger Woodward embarked last Monday on a long musical voyage : nothing less than the performance of the entire piano works of Chopin in 12 recitals.  The first four recitals take place this week and the completion of the cycle stretches into 1985… No musician would undertake such a task lightly, and there was nothing in these deeply considered, unfailingly interesting performances to suggest that Woodward takes it in the least degree lightly…...



Woodward exhibited an instrumental mastery of virtuosity that took one’s breath away”  Trieste Festival 1990