Since there’s no single best total technique, here’s the best arranged by specific bestnesses.
Barere - Best evenness in scales and thirds at top possible speed
Schnabel - Best passion
Cortot - Best sensitivity in touch, best wrong notes
Rachmaninoff - Best tone, best hands
Arrau - Best depth of feeling
Lhevinne - Best octaves
Backhaus - Best refined and polished, Biggest balls in Mozart
Horowitz - Best demonaical energy, most variety of tone colors
Richter - Best power, most depressing
Gould - Best fingers, variety of articulation, most bizarre
Cziffra - Best wild craziness
Busoni - Best brain
Rubinstein - Best heart
Hamelin - Best archaeologist
Lang Lang - Best at sucking dong
Hofmann’s scales are better than Barere. Barere’s clarity isn’t even close, nor is his eveness. He is faster but not so much faster as to compensate for this. In any case, from hofmann’s recz it soundz like he could play way fastah than he did, but sacrificed diz for moizture. I think dat Freidman’z thirds were almost as perfect as lhevinne in 25/6, which indicatez to me that he could have played them as perfectly if technique was a major concern for him.
Berman’s oct iz way faztah dan da josef lhevinne. u can simply compare by using chop 25-10 az a guideline. lhevinne iz famous for his double thrids tech, but again da ashkaban and da ziff cud unleash dat zpeed without having any trouble. not to mention da Gav and da young Ho iv u iz talking about da octz tech.
What’s the point of Berman playing octaves as fast as he does if they sound like shit? Lhevinne could definitely play faster than he does in op25-10, but he’s too good of a musician to sacrifice good tone for speed.
u talk shit. I don’t see any good sheeyat in lhevinne 25-10 and playing at his speed, you can achieve his tone easily. Also, if Berman sounds like sheeyat, ur ears are definitely fucked up. ur brain probably isn’t fully grown. well, go suck ur mommy’s tits. You need some protien. It’s not gonna make u any smarter, but I promise it will enhance da level of ur stupidity from negative 1 to ZERO.
Speaking ov which, it’s people like you who give scum a bad name. you shouldn’t give out any thought/comment because it’s useless. u tend to misunderstand da SDC. people here not only care for speed, but also nice interp.
dis just pisses me off. anyway, [size=200][color=cyan]PLATINUM FUCK OFF TO ETERNITY…JUST FOR YOU.[/size]
Richter =
Best Power
Best ability to sustain intensity for hours(as evidenced in his 50 minute long Schubert Sonata D894)
Best ability to play hard shit faster than anyone while still sounding good
Best at playing all kinds of repertoire
Argerich =
Best uniqueness of interpretation
Best at getting carried away and playing the fuck out of sheeyat
If you don’t just care about speed then what pisses you off about this? It just seems to me to be more important to create a sexy tone than to play a bunch of ugly notes with your fingers 4 inches from the keys and as fast as possible.
well this is a very stupid thread ultimately… ya know , they all (and im sure most of them) have brilliant wonderful technique … what matters is what do they do with this technique to create music ! this is just a material to construct from !
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