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After an emotional standing ovation and a warm embrace by Sergiu Comissiona, the symphony's music director, he returned for an encore and showed a different, more muted skill in Chopin's introspective D-Flat Nocturne, Opus 27, No. 2. In its own quiet, understated way the piece, more than the Franck, seemed to speak for the performer, telling, more clearly than words, what he had been through since he had last used that troubled hand in public. "It was evident that I am not back to where I would like to be," he said later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sound of Two Hands Playing | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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