I must have heard at least 100 performances of this sonata. Richter and Gilels are the ones I keep going back to. But this Arrau performance is quite outstanding. A very dark, demonic even ecstatic reading but not rushed and with total grasp of the structure. It is the best performance I have ever heard.
I feel bad for Arrau to have had this audience, there's coughs and snorts literally every 3 seconds. You can even hear motorcycles or something at 16:25
such a great interpretation on such a shitty piano ( we can feel Arrau battling with it ) ... probably in the old Massey Hall with its horrible acoustic .
