he is really unique. You can recognize his piano sound among thousands of recordings. He is one the last piano players breathing life into the piano. Unique voices like Whitney Houston, Freddy Mercury or Maria Callas - you can recognize them immediately, you can hear the soul of this singers, with all their strength and also weakness. My old teacher Carlo Domeniconi has a guitar tone which I never heard by another guitarist. Who is really interested in a perfect thing? The things we love are not perfect at all. We can admire a perfection but never love it.
Personalities are vanishing and the younger generation of musicians are hiding themselves behind a perfection, which leaves no room for individuality. The violin sound of Isaac Stern was really characteristic - if you want to distinguish Hilary Hahn from, let's say Janine Janson, that's really not so easy. The faster and cleaner the playing is, the more you may be fascinated by the virtuosity but you will not be moved anymore. Hearing the music of one of those personalities I mentioned was or is really a different story. By the way, the most perfect and fast player is e.g a computer software or another music machine. Completely soul free. Guaranteed.
