Dont forget Antonio Barbosa in the Mazurkas..... A natural and humility, and rythmical sense outstanding.... My 2 best Chopin with Moravec....
In the roots system of Chopin’s Tree, one of his root is Domenico Scarlatti sonatas.... If you want to know why? Listen to the Zacharias version in 3 cd.... Pure marvel....My best Scarlatti pianist....Zacharias has forgot the virtuoso side and will deepen the pure interiority....Chopin get it immediately for sure....For example so good is Pogorelich Scarlatti and it is for sure, i prefer the poetic playing of Zacharias...
When someone must or may listen the same cd a thousand times his requirement are very different than when someone gives a few listenings only.... I discover gladly something new, but my listening is made of 80% of ancient favorites players or works that i had listen to hundred or thousand times....i owned 8000 cd and files....Most i had listen 1 or 2 times only.... Some thousand times, for example Bach.... I dream each day to discover something i will be pleased and able to listen to without end like Bach clavier works.... The Moravec and Barbosa Chopin are on this level for me....
My criteria is not then, is this interpretation good, but is this interpretation able to please me till my death each day, or each week, or each month, or each year? Because for sure we cannot listen to some works each day but only in some days and not other days... There exist many good interpretation of a work, but very few if not only one that will make you happy till death.....
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