Virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity? Well not for me. Music, or musicality, does it for me. I've attended a few concerts by this pianist (who shall remain nameless) who is awesome by his ability to trill, play super quick scale passages, his octaves are bold, quick and solid. He plays all the notes in the Prokifiev's Toccatta, never misses one. Everything technical is there but the *music* is missing. After a while is just sounds like a series of notes, no 'music', no tension, nothing, blah. After the concert people usually comment on how just fast he can play, "you couldn't even see his hands they moved so fast" and all. But it's annoying. You just want to walk away. His Liszt somehow misses the point, so does his Chopin. Beethoven's a big deception everytime. His Bach is good though.
This is in sharp contrast to another concert I've attended, one entirely dedicated to Debussy. No virtuosity a-la-Liszt there, intensely musical performance, a few of us were so stunned and moved by the concert we were the last ones to leave the hall, we were just a few sitting in this empty hall after the concert saying absolutely nothing, dead silence, like if we were waiting for something, or like if we needed some time to take it all in. Ten minutes probably went by until some staff member silently entered the room, closed the piano lid and left. We left maybe five minutes after that.