This woman always separates her musical intelligence from her ego. When she plays a piece that EVERYONE has played she broadens her base of critics, but she is unique, consistent, almost predictable and very satisfying.
that ending was the best ending to anything, ever. I don't know how she does it, but she especially does it when interpreting chopin: she plays off of silence, refracts it as if from a prism, and it magnifies the the light and shade in the tonality of the piece. That ending was a crescendo of silence. I've never heard anyone do that before.
I watch many young pianist playing this waltz.I dont see them present the genuine essense of waltz.leoskaja is faithful to chopins intention in this piece
I wouldn't want to doubt that Mme Leonskaja is a wonderful and sensitive person, and she surely, is a most accomplished pianist, so why is it then, that I find myself asking how - in this performance - she utterly fails to find (at least to my mind) the voice of Chopin?
