Rachmaninoff Prelude in G flat Op 23 No 10 Rachmaninoff 1940

Harold Schonberg, in his book,“The Great Pianists“ writes, “Probably no pianist ever had his sheer finish,his authority,his unruffled,unflawed perfection. Not for him was the spontaneous approach of a Hofmann, the anarchism that Friedman sometimes displayed, the intellectualities of a Busoni, the scholarship of a Schnabel. Instead he was the pianist of control---a romantic pianist who carefully avoided exaggeration,an extraordinary technician who never went for mere show, a tempered man, a tempered artist