“This is an absolute deep contrast to Chopin, who found himself favoring a classical form of musical essence. He needs to bring nothing in from outside, the music is nearly ‘absolute.”
Talkings about Chopin and Schumann
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Without this you can’t play Chopin, you can’t play Mozart, and lastly absolutely not the Goldbergs.
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Source: Staff Reporter, "Mangalampalli can't wait to come home".
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 7 : Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style
Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-pianist-leon-fleisher by Elijah Ho (October 1, 2014)