Haebler and Gilberto

Two obituaries in the NYT within one week for musicians in my music collection.

I can’t quite say that Mozart is my composer of choice, especially when it comes to the piano, although I could listen to Mitsuko Uchida play all day. But every now and again, Mozart knocks one out of the park. The G minor piano quartet, for example. While that quartet has a great arrangement for two pianos, here’s a Mozart fugue actually originally written for two pianos; here is my recording, performed by Ingrid Haebler and Ludwig Hoffmann

I once had some Brazilian students surprised during office hours that I was listening to Getz/Gilberto (I was surprised by their surprise in turn). But at any rate this is what I now assume all Dutch TV is like (featuring Astrud Gilberto):

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