Just released is this magical half-hour of pianist Arthur Rubinstein being reunited with his favourite concert piano at Steinway’s Hamburg factory, captured on film in 1966.
The video beautifully captures the bond between artist and instrument in the first 7 minutes. There more interesting stuff after that about Chopin and Brahms memorabilia Rubinstein had picked up — as well as a bit more of him playing the piano.
http://youtu.be/Ez04D5QzEYs
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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