An ingenious album

There are many tech-savvy pianist in our time, but almost always lacks the true penetration and creation of music. The days of a Horowitz or Rubinstein, a judge or Gilels seem past undwiederbringlich. So everything is bleak? No, there is a pianist who gives the music the most important thing: the soul and transcendence. His name: Grigory Sokolov.
Who has seen him in concert knows what is meant, and because Sokolov so frees few of his recordings, the present is "Salzburg Recital" a very special treasure. As Sokolov with Mozart slow movements formed into intimate songs full of tenderness and grace, as all desire without sentimentality out works at Chopin, as he finally in six encores yet even more than meets at Bach to flash the sublime, which is simply: above ground , unearthly beautiful.