“The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine”
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“This Hungarian Van Cliburn impressed me from the outset with a deep and confident involvement in the music, a capacity for both power and delicacy, and a preference for passion over absolute accuracy.”
John Bennett, Calgary Herald, 1972.
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