It’s stunning how textured his performances are - it’s as if the piano speaks rather than sings. At times, it even starts to sound like an old fortepiano.

With him, everything is stacatissimo

@monscarmeli

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That's eactly what I love about his performances (which I've noticed most in his Beethoven): an intensely virtuosic clarity and precision, absolutely phenomenal.

His performances bring a new perspective to familiar works - which is better than simply repeating the standard interpretations which these days are so readily accessible. But the page turner is wise to keep a safe distance most of the time! This deserves many more views I would have thought.

10:26 that gesture though

Thank you very much, thats life in a world of harm, I got tears of joy

because everything is stacc'ed, you really hear the sustained notes when he wants the piano to siiiiing. i feel like it's the invert of many interpretations where the modern piano sustains most of the time and you really notice the stac's.

Ontem tive a oportunidade de assisti-lo e fiquei muito bem impressionado. Seja como compositor, como maestro e como solista. Grande talento! BRAVO!!!

That man is a grandmaster

おもろい。キワキワのキワ感笑笑

Schauderhaft

@emilelaurent

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Wundervoll!!!

I understand that the sonata is called "Pathetique", but not to the same extent. This is some kind of pantomime-clownery. Despite the fact that he performs the music frankly poorly, he gets confused and doesn’t keep the tempo. Very provincially bad.

Reading from the score? With one of the most easily memorizable sonatas ever penned by Beethoven? He'd better steer clear, then, of Szymanowski's 2nd and 3rd sonatas! And what's with all the perspiring, the head twitching (unnecessary and distracting!) and the crazy arm display? He must've had a teacher who, because of suffering from"legato-phobia," encouraged his pupils to play in as detached a manner as possible - - a 'staccato paradise.' This approach lends itself, one might say, to an unfortunately anti-dramatic (anti-Pathetique?) atmosphere, even comedic. I suppose this style of playing would be often appropriate in Prokofiev, Bartok and Ginastera, but it clearly goes against the grain in a work of this sort. And if I may say one more thing about his perspiring, how could he ever get through something like Liszt's "Mazeppa?" He'd have to do the James Levine thing with a bath towel slung over his shoulder.

What a hero