Laurence Osborn’s new piano concerto, “Schiller’s Piano”, which I had the immense pleasure of hearing in its premiere performance by Zubin Kanga and the Manchester Collective on Thursday 10th October, gives a shocking musical account of the construction of a replica piano in a Nazi concentration camp. The true story which informs the piece relatesContinue reading “Feeding the Empty Piano: dialectics of machine and human in Osborn’s “Schiller’s Piano””
James Waide 