Konstantin Scherbakov — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2015-03-24

… while for the past two decades the artist is mostly pictured with an earnest, maybe “Beehovenian” / titanic, somewhat closed facial expression, in the concert (which he presented with a mostly relaxed, yet controlled body language) his face hinted at a wealth of emotions — and his playing struck me as a prime example of the “big Russian Piano School” …

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.22 in F major, op.54

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.22 in F major, op.54 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Wilhelm Backhaus (1969), Paul Badura-Skoda (1969), Daniel Barenboim (1984), Ronald Brautigam (2007), Friedrich Gulda (1967), Maurizio Pollini (2003), Artur Schnabel (1935)