(July 23, 2015 at 9:41 pm)Alex K Wrote: Reminds me of our impression of the last Berliner Philharmonic's new years eve concert with Menahem Pressler (playing Mozart), who is 91... Maybe some insights and attitudes really do come with age.
http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en...ils/20332/
Although it can be nice to hear a youthful musician, if one wants musical maturity, that comes after about 80 years of practice. So for Horszowski, that would be from the late 1970's until his death. Young upstarts really are just not the same, but one cannot expect real talent to blossom without sufficient time and practice for it to develop.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.