"Inner Hearing"
What a gift it was to play with him!
The first time I met Claudio Abbado, I sat opposite him at dinner after his concert at the Lucerne Festival. At first he said very little, but shortly we began to speak about music, Sardinia and sailing. Claudio Abbado loved to sail! Michael Haefliger, the director of the festival, told him in the course of the evening that I was a Pianist. It was my good fortune that shortly after our first meeting Claudio Abbado listened to a recital I gave in Munich of Mozart’s Concerto KV 467 in C-Major. Evidently, my interpretation of the piece convinced him… (more)