Nelson Freire Plays Beethoven

[George]

Clearly, another example of technique without insight.  It's rare to have such ease and facility playing, it's rarer still to have great musical insight.  The rarest is the artist who combines that technical prowess with the intelligence to really know the nature of the music he or she is playing.  That's why we keep buying Richter and Serkin and Haskil and Fischer to name a few.

Nice group there. 

[Bunny]

I should add Berezovsky.  I've really been impressed with his recent Beethoven recordings on Simax as well as his Godowsky / Chopin Études.