I'm aware of the purely musical elements of technique, but while I value them very much - I do not discuss them because it reduces discussions to infantile rants like yours.
Speed is ALOT more than you realise.
Without finger speed, someone wouldn't be able to articulate with staccato, legato, etc.
Wow, someone has the ability to articulate and dynamically shape a passage a 10BPM!
That is EASY, technique only becomes a challenge when time restrictions are imposed.
If we had 5 secods to prepare for every note and chord, it'd be quiteeasy
When we have 0.03 of a second to prepare, we have to involve much more technique.
Anyway, back to thepoint, speed and evenness are OBJECTIVELY calculable - a computer can analyze it, and figure out the pianist with the greater dexterity.
Speed is nothing unless you have a bad technique!! Whcih by your obsession with speed I am guessing you do! Articulation etc comes from the hand! You hardly EVER use the fingers in piano playing! Because they are WEAK!! The fingers are nothign but pathetic bits of bone! The hand and arm does everything. Maybe if you went to a teacher you'd find this out, and realise that speed is in fact the easiest thing of all.
How does speed effect legato staccato etc..? Scales are much harder at slow tempo's. Everyone knows that, becasue the control over the sound is much harder. Fast scales are always even becasue the speed covers up the bumps and the legato can be faked.
You are so ignorant to slow tempo's and articulationa dn legato. I'd love so much to hear you play Schubert Bb sonata slow mvt. Or opening of appassionata!! You'd be so screwed, becasue the articulation and control is so hard no matter how fast your fingers are they will still fall.
If we had 5 seconds to prepare each chord?? Have you heard of balancing chords? That is true technique! To balance a chord perfectly. At slow speeds they are much harder! Dioes that mean 2nd mvt of appasionata is easy technically? How do you balance the chords? You have to get the correct shapes in the hand, but I doubt your technique has ever managed to look at things like that...I bet you play the appasionat slow mvt with curved fingers and all top voice? Ignoring that rest of the voices...but hey it must be easy, you have time to prepare each chord!
0.03 seconds..ok, hard chord passages like that practced correctkly are easy. Hard chordal passages...um...4th ballade just before coda, big chors, short preparation time... why is the speed a problem? You find the positions you practice the changes and there you go!! Hard at first, but is much easier than the chords in 2nd mvt of appasionata! Hitting the notes at the correct speed is amateur stuff! You sort of assume that any pianist has the abilty to hit the notes.
Anyway...how the hell do we know if Richter was playing full speed? and if Wunder was? I never ever perform op10no4 at my full speed. I'm at 3/4 speed all the time, and thats still above chopin metronome mark! Don't you get it? Richter wasn't aiming to play it so pathetic obssesive people go wowowow look at his speed!! and I'm sure he couldn't care less if you think Wunder has greater dexterity! Which in my opinion he doesn't!!
How can you say you won't discuss musical elements of techniuqe? We practice technique for hours a day so we can apply them to music! You have never made one decdent comment in your life about musical detail or how to apply a technique ot music! You even said Arrau had a bad sound!!
Playing legato is an art in itself, and speed has nothing to do with this! Listen to wunders op10no2 would you call that legato?
Topic: op 10 no 4 !!!