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Charles Rosen's simultaneously hilarious and patronizing notes about the piano. My favourite meaningful quote:

Basically our problem is to rid ourselves of complacency and avoid the two complementary forms of subservience: an exaggerated obedience to what is considered academically correct or fashionable, and a self-indulgent and frivolous confidence in our own ego. A performance ought always to give the impression of a fresh contact with the music, an original approach that respects the work. "I have never heard that music played that way before" is not a compliment if the performance does not reveal an aspect of the work that we feel was already there but unnoticed before. We all pay lip service to the ideal that a good performance must be an illuminating renewal of even the most familiar work, but how to achieve that renewal cannot be reduced to a system and will differ from one pianist to another.