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Playing with Fire Elizabeth Wilson

Playing with Fire von Elizabeth Wilson

Playing with Fire Elizabeth Wilson

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Playing with Fire Zusammenfassung

Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia Elizabeth Wilson

The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life

Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance.-Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal

Maria Yudina was no ordinary musician. An incredibly popular pianist, she lived on the fringes of Soviet society and had close friendships with such towering figures as Boris Pasternak, Pavel Florensky, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Legend has it that she was Stalin's favorite pianist.

Yudina was at the height of her fame during WWII, broadcasting almost daily on the radio, playing concerts for the wounded and troops in hospitals and on submarines, and performing for the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad. By the last years of her life, she had been dismissed for ideological reasons from the three institutions where she taught. And yet according to Shostakovich, Yudina remained a special case. . . . The ocean was only knee-deep for her.

In this engaging biography, Elizabeth Wilson sets Yudina's extraordinary life within the context of her times, where her musical career is measured against the intense intellectual and religious ferment of the post-revolutionary period and the ensuing years of Soviet repression.

Playing with Fire Bewertungen

Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance.-Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal

Wilson, a Moscow-trained cellist and biographer of Shostakovich, has found details of, it seems, every concerto, every appearance, every job Yudina did.-John Lloyd, Financial Times



As this fascinating book shows, the real story of Yudina is more moving and extraordinary than any of the myths.-Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph



Wilson illuminates the life of one of twentieth-century Russia's most brilliant pianists and uncompromising individuals . . . Through her meticulous research, Wilson disabuses us of the many legends that surround Yudina's peculiar character.-Nadia Beard, Times Literary Supplement

Wilson, a musician and writer who authored a fine book on Dmitri Shostakovich, has now produced the first English-language biography of Maria Yudina, one of Russia's greatest 20th-century pianists. Her study gains strength from its vivid reconstruction of the classical music scene under Soviet rule.-Tony Barber, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2022: History

The author is extremely well placed to narrate Yudina's life and provide some insight into her art...Reading a biography of her as thorough and informed as Playing With Fire, one grows ever more incredulous that she survived so long and went on performing until very near the end of her life.-Michael Tanner, Spectator



An insight into the agony of intellectual life under [Stalin's] rule-Sophie Roell, Five Books 'Notable Nonfiction of Early 2022'



An adroit and revealing narrative of [Maria] Yudina's life-Michael Prodger, New Statesman


Wilson follows Yudina carefully from her birth in what is now Belarus to her death in Moscow in 1970. The threads of her life interweave to illustrate not only an astonishing career, but also aspects of Russian life and culture before and during the Soviet era...Clearly, this book is filled with dramatic experiences and detail, but Wilson's craft as a storyteller ensures that it is a captivating read.-Vin Arthey, The Scotsman



This book is filled with dramatic experiences and detail, but Wilson's craft as a storyteller ensures that it is a captivating read.-Vin Arthey, Yorkshire Post



Clearly and unpretentiously written, with sensitive but never blindly hagiographic appreciations of Yudina's recordings. Where they were dissenting voices about the quality of Yudina's playing or teaching, she does not hesitate to report them. The text is also studded with fascinating asides.-David Fanning, Gramophone


This most satisfying biography and appreciation of one of the 20th century's greatest pianists, brims over with facts, anecdotes and observations. It's both an invaluable document and an absorbing and stimulating read... It is surely definitive.-Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International


A brilliant pianist closely connected with the leading lights of 20th-century Russian music, literature and philosophy, Maria Yudina was a seminal figure whose devout religious beliefs brought her into direct collision with the Soviet state. Elizabeth Wilson's great achievement is to have brought Yudina's extraordinary life out of the shadows. With this revelatory biography she takes us deep into the heart of Russian artistic genius at its most passionate and uncompromising.-Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov Scenes from a Life and Tolstoy: A Russian Life


Maria Yudina, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, reached cult status in the USSR, but is still little known abroad. This fascinating biography by Elizabeth Wilson, combining scholarly erudition and captivating storytelling, not only fills this gap but reads like a powerful Russian novel!-Mikhail Rudy, award-winning concert pianist


So much more than a great and deeply unusual pianist, Maria Yudina was at once mystic and visionary, a pioneer of modernism and a tremendous friend to those who loved her. Few writers and musicians in the English-speaking world are better placed than Elizabeth Wilson to tell the story of this mysterious and far too little-known 20th century musician. And the story is a revelation.-Gerard McBurney, composer and writer


An engaging read that tells the story of Russia's preeminent pianist of the 20th century in lucid and approachable language, this long-needed book illuminates Maria Yudina's work and life through recollections of her contemporaries and considerable archival research.-Elena Dubinets, Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra


Presents an absorbing picture of a tragic period of Russian history. At its center is the towering figure of Maria Yudina, a remarkable pianist and one of the most influential personalities of Soviet cultural life. A riveting read.-Boris Berman, Head of Piano, Yale University School of Music


Über Elizabeth Wilson

Elizabeth Wilson is a performer, teacher, and writer. She studied cello at the Moscow Conservatoire with Mstislav Rostropovich and is the author of biographies of Dmitri Shostakovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and Mstislav Rostropovich.

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Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson
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Yale University Press
2022-02-08
352
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