Word: pianism
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...phone to say he had had tears in his eyes throughout the concert. Horowitz had once more proclaimed himself the greatest of living pianists. By turns elegant, playful, probing, introspective and, finally, heroic, Horowitz had also reaffirmed his lineage as the last romantic, whose artless, effortless, larger-than-life pianism, redolent with spontaneity and freshness, is a vanishing...
...keyboard, whether pounding out octaves or rippling off scales in thirds. But mere technique is not enough. Just as Luciano Pavarotti's high notes, in the tenor's prime several years ago, were backed up by a gorgeous liquid tone and a supple sense of phrasing, so Horowitz's pianism offers many subtleties: the absolute independence of each finger, which makes it sound as though he were playing with three hands, and a rainbow tonal palette that realizes Liszt's ideal of turning the piano into an 88-key orchestra, with every instrument from the flute to the double bass...
...decline; impresarios, critics and audiences were growing despondent at the dimming of star magnetism among the new generation of players. The scene was set for Lang Lang and Yundi Li, two young Chinese musicians who are today the emerging stars of the rarefied world of concert-hall pianism. Both men were born in 1982, and have exclusive recording contracts with the Deutsche Grammophon label?long a mark of eminence in the field...
Understandably, the audience did not let Kissin go without playing an encore, and he generously gave us four. As if the overwhelming virtuosity of Pictures was not enough, the encores were transcendental displays of Romantic pianism. First, he played Balakirev’s arrangement of a Glinka song, “The Lark,” then offered Liszt’s “Rigoletto” paraphrase of Verdi. Both demonstrated the utmost in fluidity and lyricism—in Kissin’s hands, the hideously difficult becomes the sublimely simple, even if the material is third...
...Wild revels in the sensuality and sheer kineticism of the piano, reminding his listeners that it is the only instrument capable of emulating both the tender nuances of vocal music and the thunderous range of the orchestra. When Wild plays, the pallid noodling that often passes for pianism these days vanishes: one hears the grand echoes of Paderewski, Rachmaninoff and Josef Hofmann...