Word: fingerwork
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...second movement, a humorous scherzando with embellishments crisp enough to make Mendelssohn—the master of this so-called fairy music—proud, benefited from a feathery orchestral texture and methodically precise fingerwork on de la Salle’s part. A syncopated waltz transitioned into a breakneck Presto in the third movement. Soloist and ensemble approached the closing tarantella with a startling recklessness that Luisi impressively translated into exhilaration...
...beginning of the Beethoven Sonata in G (Op. 31 No. 1) Ohlsson's fingerwork was troublingly sloppy, at least compared to his voicing; but this may have been a matter of adjusting to the piano. He took the opening allegro a good sight slower than the indicated vivace, but used the broadened canvas to play around with all its quirky syncopations...
...minor, is the thing of devastating beauty. Though Goode's tempi were excessively free, his princely touch and his formidable intellectual grasp of the music overwhelmed all objections. His performance of the bravura E-flat minor rhapsody was the best of the four, demonstrating superior voicing and clealiness of fingerwork...
...highlight of the program was their second selection, Don't Stop this Train. Using Bach as a framework, Lewis created a set that bounced along, prodded by his fancy fingerwork on the piano...
...piano repertoire, full of inspiration, yet never stifled by the brevity of the form. Within each short movement, the composer achieved a broad range of expression. His 'romantic' was romantic--resplendent in rolling arpeggios and octave runs. His 'energetic' evoked a clockwork sort of busy-ness with fast chromatic fingerwork; and his 'mysterious' combined bright interjections from the right hand over dense tone clusters and sombre, meandering notes in the bass to set a mood of eerie expectancy...