Archives for May 22, 2013

Benno Moiseiwitsch plays excerpts from Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 12:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn’t matter; it may be worthwhile or it may be worthless. No wine is more intoxicating, no love so shattering, no vice so compelling.”
Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge