I'll take a "golden age" pianist any day. I actually don't like to listen to the young flash-and-dazzle pianists much. They are actually boring after the first couple of pieces. We are going to hear Alfred Brendel next week. He's getting old, though. It's a bygone era, I am afraid.I blame the competition requirements, which seem to foster the flash-and-dazzle repertoire, immediately followed by recitals for the winner, whose repertoire is, not surprisingly, flash-and-dazzle stuff. the focus is all wrong.