"Those who look for contradictions will be amply satisfied. The profession of a performer is full of paradoxes, and he…"

"Edwin Fischer was, on the concert platform, a short, leonine, resilient figure, whose every fiber seemed to vibrate w…"

"You need three or five hands to play Ligeti."

"If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the p…"

"I am accountable to the composer, but I am also there to communicate something to the listener. I am not delivering a…"

"Hearing has its own memory. It registers the dog whose sudden barking startled me as a child. The folk songs my nanny…"

"Alfred Brendel is a line guy trapped in a chord guy’s body."

"Why does he think what he's playing is better than other interpretations? He must think it's better and the question …"

"Unlike Beethoven’s sonatas, but like his own song cycles, Schubert’s piano sonatas were not of a nature to inspire th…"

"Wo ist dein Selbst zu finden? Immer in der tiefsten Bezauberung, die du erlitten hast. ... Die ganze Seele ist nie be…"