I was asking Stevie...whatever
About repeated notes, I have Grigory Ginsburg's version of Liszt's HR 2, and in the part just after the evil scales on the Friska, he plays the normal notation: F-C#C#C#-F/F#-C#C#C#-F#,etc. (most of the pianists play the ossia for this part, wich is F-C#D#C#-F/F#-C#D#C#-F#,etc.), and he plays them at an stunning speed, the fastest I've heard, and the fingering is 5-432-1/5-432-1.
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Alex
Alex,
Really, there is no need to ask Stevie, or whoever else, to appreciate the mastery of Grigory Romanovitch Ginzburg. That man was a POET of piano MASTERY. What always stoke me in his playing is not the speed, but the QUALITY. It is amazing to listen to a person who can afford to play 25/6 almost 20 seconds slower than any of modern piano competitions winners, and still to realize what kind of beauty stays behind it. It is amaizing to realize that actually he was the person who could play it faster than ANYBODY, but chosed not to, for sake of beauty of the music.
On the other hand, nobody could unleash the 6th Rhapsody like G. Ginzburg. The existing commercial recording does not do it justice. I heard some private recordings. To say the least, NOBODY, including Sziffra, was even close to that speed and evenness.
Interesting thing, having THAT kind of abilities, he rarely chosed to show them off. Maybe the reason he was the most interested in music. With his playing, it was however always that feeling he could do ANYTHING.
The mastery of piano playing is not in the actual speed, but in that feeling "how much behind it". Just listen to Joseff Lhevinne playng Blue Danub. Is it fast? Maybe, but who cares when there is that internal feeling of "Titan, easily throwing cliffs". And now tell me who out of modern pianists could do it.