Murray Perahia Quote

I wouldn't play it in public — you need different muscles, you can't use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the strings aren't damped, as on a piano. I wanted to visit Bach's sound world, then apply those ideas to the piano.


Of playing the harpsichord. - Jewish Chronicle interview (8 February 2008)


I wouldn't play it in public — you need different muscles, you can't use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the...

I wouldn't play it in public — you need different muscles, you can't use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the...

I wouldn't play it in public — you need different muscles, you can't use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the...

I wouldn't play it in public — you need different muscles, you can't use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the...