She became the English "Landowska" in her passionate and compelling desire to understand and bring back to light the particular beauty of the harpsichord. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
She once famously said to Landowska: 'You play Bach your way. From Wordnik.com. [Bach, pianos and a 'marauding Tartar'] Reference
About Wispelwey playing Dvorak, isn't that like hearing Landowska playing Rachmaninoff?. From Wordnik.com. [The nice surprise I mentioned] Reference
Landowska on Music collected, edited, and translated by Denise Restout, assisted by Robert Hawkins. From Wordnik.com. [Wanda Landowska] Reference
She quickly joined such artists as Landowska, Yella Pessl and Ernst Victor-Wolff as a pre-eminent interpreter of Baroque keyboard music on the harpsichord. From Wordnik.com. [Edith Weiss-Mann.] Reference
On the opposite rise, in the low Berkshires, Wanda Landowska could view the lake from her house where, for RCA, she recorded her historic harpsichord renditions of The Well-Tempered Clavichord. From Wordnik.com. [Aweigh] Reference
Almost as if it were his own memory, Gerry saw Fermi being shown the streak of fission on a sensitive plate, a child Landowska listening to a harpsichord, a drowsy Ford with his mind suddenly lit by the picture of a line of men facing a line of machines. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
A fortuitous encounter with Wanda Landowska, who was then living and teaching in Berlin, prompted Weiss-Mann to focus her attention on the harpsichord and, with such other early Landowska students as Alice Ehlers and Eta Harich-Schneider, she was in the forefront of the early music revival in Germany in general and the revival of the harpsichord in particular. From Wordnik.com. [Edith Weiss-Mann.] Reference
I was studying too hard — philosophy under Bergson and the piano under Wanda Landowska. From Wordnik.com. [Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V] Reference
After three years in Vancouver, he returned to Toronto in 1940, and as producer and later senior producer, Mr. Findlay has been responsible for many of C. B.C.'s most notable broadcasts, including "The Birth of Canadian Freedom", drama series, the broadcasts of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and such special programmes as "Salute to Brazil", "Salute to Argentine", Canadian contributions to the C.B.C. "School of the Air", and the important harpsichord concert series presented last year with Madame Wanda Landowska. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Meeting] Reference
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