With the heart at your fingertips

Having benefited from the teaching of the great masters at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest (that of Bartok, Kodaly and Dohnanyi yet) as a Hungarian generation of famous musicians (include Annie Fischer or forgotten Andor Foldes, but Ferenc Fricsay, Antal Dorati or Georg Solti!), Lili Kraus has studied in Berlin with Arthur Schnabel (some influence in its interpretation as in his choice of repertoire). After the war and its attendant horrors, it will install a time in France and London in the fifties, and then it will go to the United States permanently establish its absolute Mozart reputation.

Here again the available corpus Mozart captured with Columbia in 1967 and 1968: an (almost) complete Sonatas (missing the No. 15 K.533 / 494), also with the Rondo K.485 and both Fantasies K. 397 and 475. A Mozart character, both atypical and discographiquement inevitable and a natural complement (or Mozart alternative, according to records that are already available) to the indispensable Box Warner.

Lili Kraus, of course, is an elegant and sensitive playing with an exceptional sense of balance; but it is mostly a direct pianism, unfussy, no manners, unassuming as always simple, yet overflowing with vitality and never devoid of imagination. With contagious enthusiasm, but also a sense of nuance and musicality omnipresent, it conveys an indescribable passion: that of life, natural, poetry, that of unfailing musical enjoyment.

A pianist who played with heart at your fingertips; absolute musician, to know absolutely.