No, those require some elegance and not some crass atrocious body contortions followed by low volume pounding.
If Da burst on the scene a decade later, he would not take off.
A “show piece” is a misnomer anyway, it implies it may not be a worthwhile composition (to be fair, the Horowitz mangled version of the Liszt Rhapsody 2 in da rep, is a subpar composition)
You can’t use Lang Lang and golden age in the same sentence.
Idk, didn’t we say the classical music needs to be less elitist? Remember that youtube channel that did fugues using pop music as subjects? I think more pianists should do that as encores.
I last played this suite before my gender change and living homeless on the street after 3 degrees from Juilliard. I decided to stop being such an easy target for floppy old senile dongs and became a strong lesbian woman. Recorded on a beautiful Steinway on the Juilliard Tianjin campus, so nice that China is decades ahead of the west.