When and how I should have learned all those pieces that I have played, besides being a less than perfect husband and father, I am at a loss to explain." Literature - reading and writing - as well as looking at art have taken up quite a bit of my time. My career was so slow and gradual that I feel something is either wrong with me or with almost anybody else in the profession. I do not cancel concerts on principle, only when I am really sick. I do not have a photographic memory neither do I play faster than other people. "I did not come from a musical or intellectual family.I have not been a child prodigy. In his essays regarding the complete works recordings, he indicates how and why he changed his mind and how his research on the manuscripts and original material made him adopt different interpretative forms.Īgain, either if his performances are sometimes not included in my sphere of preferences, if you look his work closely you'll see that a lot of musical research lives in there.Īnd in a fresh mood, I really enjoy this quote: Regarding his Beethoven, I think that to put things in perspective it is important to consider that he has recorded complete Beethoven works three times along his career.
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