In other words, one pleases the audiences; the other impresses the music critics. It is very hard to impossible to have both. The musicians who owned both are Pavarotti and Yo-Yo Ma (and Horowitz in his early days) whose geniuses are universally acknowledged and help selling a lot of CDs. But they're once in a life kind phenoms.
It is hard to get consensus on these matters anyway, we all have different tastes. As a music lover, I enjoy to have them play with entire different approaches. I watched and listened to their live performances closely and enjoyed both a great deal. I do analyze their differences, will discuss elsewhere.
Today we have too few quality concert young pianists, not too many. Let's support them all instead of trying to choose a "winner".
It is hard to get consensus on these matters anyway, we all have different tastes. As a music lover, I enjoy to have them play with entire different approaches. I watched and listened to their live performances closely and enjoyed both a great deal. I do analyze their differences, will discuss elsewhere.
Today we have too few quality concert young pianists, not too many. Let's support them all instead of trying to choose a "winner".