Who provokes your hand staring tendencies?

[diomedes]

I'm madly in love with pletnevs hands, if you think I'm crazy go to YouTube and look at his video of Chopin op.28 preludes. I watch that as if I'm watching the summit of pianism. The shape and tone production of those hands is perfect.

I also like watching argerich and her big lion paws, they really don't always look feminine, but what a show. Especially an incredible YouTube video of her playing Chopin 1st concerto (she's probably close to 65 in that video, incidentally).

Anyone have any hands that inspire obsessive staring tendencies?

[thalbergmad]

Cziffra for me. His hands seem incredibly flexible as if he could stretch them to swallow the entire keyboard.

Thal

[klavieronin]

Claudio Arrau. The way he caresses the keys I find mesmerising. Also, Glen Gould.

[bronnestam]

Per Tengstrand has the most beautiful hands I know. I think I know the looks of them just as much as I know my own ... because I have stared so much. Once I leaned forward so much that I almost fell off my chair because I was staring, hahaha.

[youtube]

I also find Lisitsa's hands rather hypnothic because she has terribly long fingers. But I cannot say I like them very much. I just stare.

[briansaddleback]

I believe someone here already knows the answer to this for me.


And it ain't just hands.

[pianoworthy]

Marc-Andre Hamelin's hands always perplex me, because it never looks like they are stretching or lifting off the keys much, yet everything he plays seems delicate and effortless. I've tried looking at his hands to study passages, but I can never actually see what he's doing, even when the camera is right up close to them, because his fingerings seem to be really unique.