Very subjective, we understood laura, this is the kind of law of "love dictionary". We understand perfectly quon ny is not all that great pianists lon expect it. But it does not matter because the one hand it comes not dune encyclopedia piano, it does not comes to the exhaustive work of a claim. These choices are certainly guided by the intensity of her love, which explains that many pages are devoted to course Martha Argerich example why we know his friendship. But we must qualify this idea.
On the one hand because quOlivier Bellamy not to exhume nhésite pianists who are today far from being stars. We think so Sergio Forentino or Victor Borge (including javoue navoir never heard spoken, Chopin's contemporary recordings rarely have experienced the beginnings).
On the other hand because he nadore not all pianists to which he devotes a section, whether Lang Lang said he mischievously that he plays better, he mocks the status of "rock star" and which he explicitly prefers his compatriot Yuja Wang, or Van Cliburn which he seems to hold (in a nutshell) that the feat in the first Tchaikovsky competition during the Cold War.
All the great pianists are not in this dictionary, but there are still many, Samson François, Vladimir Horowitz, Yves Nat, Jorge Bolet, Rubienstein (Anton and Arthur matter), Glenn Gould, etc. But This is not a dictionary of pianists. There have sections devoted to the great piano composers (Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov course, and a few others). For no, we naura a complete biography, but a few key events, not just anecdotal but significant of their character, their temperament, their existence (see dHorowitz Toscanini difficult relationship with his stepfather). This is more in mind Quà author sattache the letter, and that is a lot.
And then there are topics that do not relate to artists, but art of the piano. For example, we read with interest the entrance on the left hand, the concerto at the rate, or the Beethoven sonatas (and a Lopus 111).
We read all this with great jubilation because Olivier Bellamy wrote in a lighter style (as defined in easily accessible), with humor, which reveals its culture not only musical but also literary, historical, philosophical.
Scholars ny probably not learn much, but others (like me) discover even when many, and all will enjoy in this dictionary at least one point.
