Oh goodness - all pianists know how ridiculously hard this piece is to play. It is finger-twistingly bloody difficult, but this is SOOOOOO slow, as if he is grasping for the technique and the notes. Compare this to Richter or many others and Mr. Ohlsson is frankly shocking (which is a shame as I am a huge fan of his).
I too am a fan of this pianist.The problem is less with tempo per se--it's on the slow side but not off the charts--but rather with the lack of what Bruno Walter called "energy WITHIN the tempo. I've never heard GO play in so ennervated a way. This is not the sort of piece you want to play when you are feeling the least bit under par or on an uncongenial piano.
this is the gold standard
What a beautiful setting with the water at the back! Where is this?
Oh goodness - all pianists know how ridiculously hard this piece is to play. It is finger-twistingly bloody difficult, but this is SOOOOOO slow, as if he is grasping for the technique and the notes. Compare this to Richter or many others and Mr. Ohlsson is frankly shocking (which is a shame as I am a huge fan of his).
I too am a fan of this pianist.The problem is less with tempo per se--it's on the slow side but not off the charts--but rather with the lack of what Bruno Walter called "energy WITHIN the tempo. I've never heard GO play in so ennervated a way. This is not the sort of piece you want to play when you are feeling the least bit under par or on an uncongenial piano.
'Schubert is the most poetic of all the composers' - Franz Liszt (good friend of the mediocre Chopin),