Thank you Marek for this recording. What was Paderewski a great pianist! The art of breaking chords sounds dated on this primitive recording, but that was an art that has been lost. I was lucky enough to hear another great pianist from this era: Shura Cherkassky. He played in Rotterdam a few weeks before his death. In Chopin's second sonata, in the death march he didn't play any chord together, they were broken in every possible way, the most magical version I've ever heard. What a sound magic and expression.
Thank you Marek for this recording. What was Paderewski a great pianist! The art of breaking chords sounds dated on this primitive recording, but that was an art that has been lost. I was lucky enough to hear another great pianist from this era: Shura Cherkassky. He played in Rotterdam a few weeks before his death. In Chopin's second sonata, in the death march he didn't play any chord together, they were broken in every possible way, the most magical version I've ever heard. What a sound magic and expression.