One of his handlers at Tarnover explains that this is like a classical pianist being able to play entire sonatas and concertos from memory.
Fiddle players tend to play fiddle "tunes" rather than sonatas and other classical types of compositions.
Recruited from the best music conservatories in the land, they serve meals and clean cabins by day, then sing arias and play sonatas at night.
She also played Ron Yedidia's frenetic Sonata No. 3 with clarity, agility and power.
They play Rachmaninoff's Sonata for Cello and Piano (1901), which has all the turn-of-the-century angst of its time.
Kenneth Cooper plays sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti on harpsichord in his inimitable fashion tonight.
She played Schumann's Sonata in A minor (Op.
When it became possible for the two to get together occasionally at family reunions, in the early 1980's, they played Brahms, Mendelssohn and Bach sonatas together.
The festival's period-instrument ensemble, led by the violinist Daniel Stepner, will also play sonatas by Purcell.
On Thursday, the first of two evenings with Frederick Rzewski, the composer and pianist played his year-old Sonata, along with music by others.