They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music. And that Wilhelm Backhaus’s unparalleled performance of the sonata for Decca set the interpretive standard.

“My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.”

“It was a day like a slow-motion video of twilight. Uneventful, to put it mildly…”

“Ya ves, continuamos viviendo, cada uno a su manera [...]. Por profunda y fatal …”

“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”