The man is a natural phenomenon that can perhaps be best understood when Grigory Sokolov once was able to experience live. He gives the impression of a Stoic, where everything is a nuisance, which has nothing directly to do with his game; even leaving and returning in addition to well-advised part or completed evil, always the same ritual - because you can sometimes overlook the shy timid flower-bearer who nevertheless strive joyfully to him. Only when repeat it works (2008 in Munich's Herkulessaal), and thereby slides at once a joy beaming smile on Sokolov's face you would the otherwise unflappable not credited to his keys Pinned. One should not let the stoic demeanor of the master deceiving: The man thinks it just seriously. And he plays the sun rises. Respectively: Only the sun rises, then draw clouds over the horizon, Regengeprassel, thunder and lightning, once the sun struggles through the gradually retreating thunderstorm before it is night, but never completely dark: There are stars in the firmament, and Grigory Sokolov has seen them all. Moreover, he can bring the stars to the blades. A natural phenomenon, precisely.