de Larrocha’s Long Farewell

After 32 years onstage, pianist Alicia de Larrocha is beginning her long goodbye from performing. “Time has not left her unscathed. At Lincoln Center she looked frail, even tentative, when she made her way centre-stage. She seemed instantly rejuvenated, however, when she touched the keyboard. Larrocha never was a dazzling technician and certainly cannot be one now. It hardly matters.”