The recordings of his compositions performed by Alexander Scriabin (Moscow, 1972-1915) in 1903 for mechanical piano testify to a great diversity compared to the written page.
We are blessed by the existence of the mechanical piano for having preserved at least one spark of the "true" way …
"The manner in which Judina performed the last sonata of the Bonn composer is particularly striking. The second part is of exceptional length and very boring, but she not at all feels its weight".
This is the curious comment by Shostakovich on the exceptional performance of his classmate.
Judina's ideas …
"You are far from God, you should get closer to Him".
With this words Maria Judina addressed Igor Stravinsky.
They accidentally met in a cemetery and she was bent to the ground.
Maria Judina (Nevel, 1899 - Moscow, 1970), even today rather unknown in the Western countries, looks like an " old believer", with strong and anachronistic mystical and religious …
"Only success can absolve me. And is right the success that condemns me to their eyes."
Thus Liszt wrote in 1839 to Marie d'Agoult, who had told him about concerns expressed on him by Chopin and Berlioz.
The success for Horowitz bursts like a bomb in 1926: in Hamburg, then in Paris, then in …
In a letter to his family written the 25th of July 1825 Schubert wrote: "The variations of my new two hands Sonata were very appreciated. I performed them alone and not without merit. Some people assured me that the piano keys became singing voices under my fingers, and that, if true, makes me very pleased …