Mark Ainley - Living the Classical Life: Episode 23

“A musician who plays a work for twenty years has actually had a longer relationship with the piece than the composer had.” Mark Ainley is a specialist in historical piano recordings and the great pianists of the past. He has written about Dinu Lipatti, Marcelle Meyer, Alfred Cortot, Egon Petri, and other legendary pianists for various magazines and CD booklet notes. His research about Lipatti resulted in the discovery of lost recordings and their 1994 publication won a German Music Critic's Award.