Colin Harper describes it as "a record of people's weariness, but also the product of a unit whose members were still among the best players, writers and musical interpreters of their day".
So, as well as "guitarist with the Pogues", he was also a sophisticated songwriter, producer, musical director and interpreter.
Of course, these are compositions too manifold to be reduced to any one interpretation or interpreter, but Serkin fuses his musical character with them and makes them, in a way, his own.
Onstage, he is renowned as an intensely cerebral interpreter, whose musical manifesto is to put the composer's intentions before his own.
Ms. Cook, 83, has been on of the premiere interpreters of musical theater works since her breakthrough performance on Broadway in 1956 as Cunégonde in "Candide".
Ms. Cook, 84, has been one of the premier interpreters of musical theater works since her breakthrough performance on Broadway in 1956 as Cunégonde in "Candide".
Ms. Cook, 83, has been on of the premiere interpreters of musical theater works since her breakthrough performance on Broadway in 1956 as Cunegonde in "Candide".
As cerebral as they are musical, these two virtuoso interpreters pair two masterpieces with more in common than might seem apparent: Mozart's Serenade in B flat major, the Gran Partita, and Berg's chamber concerto for piano and violin, both written for 13 instruments.
At the time of her death, Cook was widely recognized as one of the "premier interpreters" of musical theatre songs and standards, in particular the songs of composer Stephen Sondheim.
