Title: Awkward, lacking in brilliance
Product review: Perhaps if I hadn't been raised on Arthur Rubenstein's recording of these sonatas I would find Serkin's renditions as flawless as this album's reputation. When I listen to this recording, I hear Serkin laboriously attempting technically perfect fingering and mathematical precision of tempo. To me, the trilling within the third movement of Moonlight is hopelessly awkward -- similar to that of a 2nd year pianist -- and the performance lacking in emotional highs and lows. I greatly prefer Rubenstein's interpretations, finding them to be much more fluid, graceful and intensely emotional.
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