Our second day of La Folle Journee de Kanazawa and we listened to Ivo Pogorelic playing Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Balakirev. Most striking was him rehearsing in front of audiences. I recognized him playing Rachmaninoff’s second sonata in quiet tone. I understood he belonged to a different world from ours. His performance was also unique. It was exceptionally tensed performance. It was an experience, really.
Ivo, coming from another planet, rehearsing in front of us
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