I don't know how I have missed her

I am listening to Helene Grimaud for the first time.



It has bothered me that all the pianists I admire--Serkin, Pollini, Argerich, Ashkenazy, Richter, Brendal, Gould, Perahia, Schiff --are all either, well, older than I am or dead. Helen Grimaud changes that.

I don't know how I have missed her

I am listening to Helene Grimaud for the first time.

http://youtu.be/g3Uzi0Vndbo

It has bothered me that all the pianists I admire--Serkin, Pollini, Argerich, Ashkenazy, Richter, Brendal, Gould, Perahia, Schiff --are all either, well, order than I am or dead. Helen Grimaud changes that.

Karajan

I have the same problem with Karajan as a musician that many others do: he thought all rough edges need to be sanded down to something smooth. But damn his Berlin Philharmonic was great.

Pollini as a young man

Playing the Emperor with Abbado in 1967.  Best left hand in the east, west, or anywhere else.