Woodward Conveys Radical Traits of The Piano Master

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. Schubert, Mozart and Debussy.  Nothing could be more conventional in prospect as the material of a piano recital.  It was wholly characteristic of Woodward that the choice, order and strategy of contrasts in his perforamnce managed to suggest - healthily, I suggest - that each composer can still be heard as a radical and that a pianist of a very special kind can persuade us that we are hearing them as if for the first time.



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