Classical music spotlight: Nelson Goerner with Chopin Society

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
January 28, 2012 at 11:35PM
Nelson Goerner, pianist
Nelson Goerner, pianist (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Argentina has long been an outpost of distinguished classical music-making, and its reputation has been burnished by pianist Nelson Goerner, a frequent duo partner of brilliant and capricious countrywoman Martha Argerich. For his Frederic Chopin Society debut, Goerner (among the more imaginative celebrants of the recent Chopin bicentenary) has generously programmed all 24 of Chopin's Preludes, Op. 28, along with Schumann's marvelous "Kreisleriana" and Mozart's Sonata No. 4.

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