Fou Ts'ong (1934 - 2020)

[Roslynmuse]

The great Chinese pianist has died of Covid-19. RIP

[Bryn]

The great Chinese pianist has died of Covid-19. RIP

So sorry to hear this. My introduction to Chopin on disc was a 33.333 RPM 7-inch Concert Hall vinyl, back in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

[Alison]

Never saw him live.

Do they still have all the flyers for concerts on the ground floor of the RFH?

When I wandered down there there always seemed to be a forthcoming South Bank recital by this pianist. Dennis Lee was another.

[Barbirollians]

Sad news - another one of those bright young things of the early 1960s gone.

[gurnemanz]

So sorry to hear this. My introduction to Chopin on disc was a 33.333 RPM 7-inch Concert Hall vinyl, back in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

He spent four years in Poland as a student and performer before moving to London in 1958 and is there to great effect on the Narodowy Instutut Chopin Box (the one some of us got for a mistakenly knockdown price a few years ago). The Mazurkas come across especially vividly on the 1849 Erard he plays. This will get a spin today.

RIP

[Dave2002]

Sad indeed - and another casualty of this wretched disease.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55471813

RIP

[alycidon]

So sorry to hear this. My one acquaintance with the pianist was at the Colston Hall in Bristol in the late fifties. He gave a stirring performance of Beethoven’s 5th concerto which I remember to this day. The orchestra was probably the Bournemouth or the Birmingham SO but I can’t be definite about that after all this time.

[DublinJimbo]

I've only seen this now. RIP. I'll never forget a performance he gave at the National Concert Hall in Dublin of Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto. He caressed the keys in a way I've never seen anyone else do. Mesmerising musicianship.

[verismissimo]

I've only seen this now. RIP. I'll never forget a performance he gave at the National Concert Hall in Dublin of Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto. He caressed the keys in a way I've never seen anyone else do. Mesmerising musicianship.

Never saw him live, but my introduction to the Mozart piano concertos was his 1968 recording of 9 and 12 with the Vienna Radio Orchestra / Brian Priestman. Just as you describe it Jimbo.