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Title: Not technically up to par with the best of them
Review: Comon ladies and gentleman. Another set of repertoire light years ahead of Arrau's technique. Just like the Liszt etudes Arrau is a real non factor in this music. Listen to No. 4, Chopin said Presto, Arrau says Allegretto.... actually he doesn't say it - its just he can't play any faster. In order to deal with the blatant and clear technical deficiencies he has to slow down ever 10 bars or so. Its really frustrating when a clearly technically incompetent pianist somehow receives praise for creatively finding way to circumvent dealing with the technical challenges of a piece.Just a sidenote there is one other person who agree with me about Arrau's playing...... Horowitz.Unbelievable.
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