Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Chopin (1962) 

genius, absolute genius

Uno dei massimi pianisti di tutti i tempi! Poesia e controllo assoluto si fondono mirabilmente.

Un interprete di rarissima sensibilità e, per me, uno degli uomini più belli mai esistiti. Forma e sostanza.

Le sue marurkas furono la prima cosa di Musica Classica che abbia mai ascoltato....e ad appena 8 anni capii cosa fosse la bellezza assoluta.

absolutely brilliant

Le mani di Michelangeli...

True Master

This is amazing!

Michelangeli brings a dispassionate, sober and measured-kept at arm's length approach of Chopin. But the precision and tonal production is phenomenal.

помню пианиста гениального на виниловых пластинках, Моцарта концерт, супер как огненно

Unico Michelangeli!

I agree, except on the dispassionate issue. Look carefully at his facial body language: it’s subtle but there is a tremendous variety of different and consistent movements, almost like a language in itself. I think he was as emotional as any great pianist of his time; it was just less obvious. Turn off the video and you will hear the most wonderful and subtly controlled dynamics. Some people are put off by his immaculate technique as though it should not be possible. Well, it is, for very few people. Others are put off by his lack of body language, or its concealment. My great regret is that Dinu Lipatti, who showed that same perfection in his recordings, did not live long enough to leave us much of a legacy on record. Anyway, A.B. Michelangeli remains, for me, one of, or perhaps THE greatest pianist on record.