PositiveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Such writing, alert and alive, is characteristic of Denk ... Young pianists who read this book will learn how working with string-playing colleagues can teach them a lot about music, and not a little about love ... Once Sebők is on the scene – once Denk is perplexed, enthralled, exhilarated, despondent – the book takes off ... Denk captures the comedy of the moment, and in doing so turns this almost-nothing into something arresting, something with consequences. He makes the music speak, all the time, as Sebők wished. He plays it and plays with it. He makes it laugh.
