Fans have uploaded a performance of Schubert’s four-hand Fantasie, played on their recent tour by Yuja Wang and Vikingur Olafsson. There is much to admire in it by way of structure and accuracy, but the dynamics are extreme and the expression feels synthetic.
Now listen to the masters at work in the same piece – Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten:
Spot the difference?
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