was once classical music’s most miraculous child. It’s both a truism and an understatement to say that he had a God-given talent.
Listening blind to the recording of that event, in which he played Chopin’s two piano concertos – sustaining their filigree beauty with cool authority – one would have said it was a major performer at the peak of their powers. Last year he was hit hard by an incapacitating shoulder injury – and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has suddenly politicised him. He’s composed a trio about that war, and says all his musical work now is dedicated to a Ukrainian victory.Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue.
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