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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I've got that second youtube link playing in the background at the moment. Personally I can't tell the difference between him and other pianists. I bought a CD of Beethoven's Hammerklavier, played by Mitsuko Uchida after reading a review somewhere but again, I wasn't able to tell her from any other version. It sounds like after a point, it's only the most tutored ears that can tell the exceptional pianists from the merely ace.
Anyway, here she is tickling the ivories:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KTC7Xv85pE0
And here she is talking about and playing some Schoenberg. I love it when experts start talking about stuff:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PmWRttCo7lo |
I think it helps if you hear them playing a piece you know tremendously well. For instance
this or
this or this. Heifetz's version I love, but he played it entirely differently in later life to how he did as a youngish man. The latter is a fair example of someone playing very 'straight' baroque, whereas the former two play in a slightly more personal style.
Uchida's wonderful -
I like that there's a whacking great clunker in the opening bars of this.