helene grimaud is not only a good pianist, but she looks good playing. that's very hard to do. (as i've noticed other threads on other pianists and how they grimace and contort their face). that would be a turn off.
Hmm.... I agree Grimaud is a very talented pianist, and does
look good at the piano, but she, along with so many talented pianists, betimes has a tendency to inhale very loudly during emotionally charged passages, which I consider another turn off. In 2003 I saw her perform the Bartok Concerto No.3 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and she was inhaling so loudly during the first third of the slow movement that I was sure she would end up inhaling the entire piano. I almost bit off my lower lip trying to stifle my laughter after this went on for several entrances in a row! She returned to Detroit a year later performing the Brahms Concerto No.2, a piece which contains some of my favourite moments in all of music, but I decided to pass on seeing her after the Bartok experience. (Pity, she'd probably have been an improvement over Kissin, the last pianist I saw perform it live.)
As for the topic of this thread.... well, I've found that there is no piece of music that is guaranteed to make the object of your "affection" pounce on you after you've played the final chords - he or she probably has to be thinking about it already so that the performance is sort of another step in the mating game, as it were. Piano play as foreplay, almost. In my last relationship there were probably times when I could have played "Chopsticks" and she would have pounced on me afterward (and conversely, even though she couldn't play the piano at all). At other times I could have played a flawless rendition of the "Appassionata" (except that such a performance was and is beyond me!) and only been rewarded with applause.