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    Fritz Kreisler: ‘To practise is a bad habit’
    Ariane Todes

    Fritz Kreisler: ‘To practise is a bad habit’

    I've been raiding the library of the Magic Mountain library and came across The Memoirs of Carl Flesch. He's not the most compelling story teller, but he does have interesting insights into the great players. For example he explains one of the fundamental truths of profound performance, one from which music students would learn well from: 'Unlike so many others, Kreisler lost none of his essential qualities in the course of the years, because the most valuable ingredients of