Kathryn Stott has announced her retirement from public performance effective at the end of this year. It seems like only yesterday, we were heralding a new talent with her Leeds prize winning performance. Sadly I have never seen (or heard) her live but cherish several of her recordings, including her Faure, Debussy and Bridge Phantasm. She had a particular sympathy for French repertoire and perhaps, surprisingly, Russian romantic repertoire.in which she also excelled. I suppose at 65, most of us think of retirement, but this is no age for a pianist. In fact,it's an age at which a lifetime's experience is often distilled into the most penetrating of performances. One only has to think today of Schiff's Schubert or Kempff's DG Beethoven cycle from the 60s for starters.
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
By coincidence, clearing out a drawer yesterday, I found her Conifer cassette 'A Rachmaninov Collection'.
I've always admired her playing, and she is one of the few musicians in my opinion who can talk interestingly, and, on occasion, wittily, about music.Comment
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I remember her as a Conifer artist, so wondered how much of her recorded legacy was still available.Originally posted by smittims View Post
Fortunately, quite a lot (on a variety of labels).
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I’m sure she has her reasons. One must consider the possibility that she may have developed a repetitive use disorder from all of the years of playing, or other health and family issuesOriginally posted by Sir Velo View PostComment
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