Longreads Best of 2013: Best Listicle By Another Name

## A Pianist’s A-V

## 钢琴家的 A-V

Alfred Brendel | New York Review of Books | July 2013 | 17 minutes (4,233 words)

阿尔弗雷德·布伦德尔 |纽约书评| 2013 年 7 月 | 17 分钟（4,233 字）

Robert Cottrell is editor of The Browser.

罗伯特·科特雷尔是《浏览器》杂志的编辑。

The best writers about classical music are professional musicians: think of Jeremy Denk, Stephen Hough, Nico Muhly.

最好的古典音乐作家都是专业音乐家：想想杰里米·登克、斯蒂芬·霍夫、尼科·穆利。

(The exception that disproves the rule is Alex Ross.) Charles Rosen, whose contributions were one of the many reasons for reading the New York Review of Books, died this year; Alfred Brendel, another Review contributor from the very highest end of the keyboard, thrives still, though he has given up playing piano publicly.

（反驳这一规则的例外是亚历克斯·罗斯。）查尔斯·罗森今年去世，他的贡献是阅读《纽约书评》的众多原因之一。另一位来自键盘最高端的《评论》撰稿人阿尔弗雷德·布伦德尔 (Alfred Brendel) 仍然在蓬勃发展，尽管他已经放弃了公开弹钢琴。

His absence from the stage makes his presence on the page all the more precious: and his “Pianist’s A-V” is evidence of the sensibility, intellect and capacity for delight needed to underpin great interpretative art.

他离开舞台使他在舞台上的存在变得更加珍贵：他的“钢琴家的 A-V”证明了支撑伟大的诠释艺术所需的感性、智慧和愉悦能力。

His note on Liszt is worth a hundred pages from a lesser hand; he brings Beethoven’s piano concertos to life in a single sentence.

他关于李斯特的笔记，出自一个小手之手，却值一百页。他用一句话将贝多芬的钢琴协奏曲演绎得栩栩如生。

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