What does that mean in terms of piano playing? Busoni had dazzling gifts and, without a doubt, a complex morphology. The hand is drawn into the mechanics of sound production — each finger has to serve a purpose. But what a gift! Why does it work so well? Personally, it felt completely natural. The large chords he wrote have an immediate way of resonating — it’s physiological, it imprints itself on the hand. In this repertoire, the left hand takes on a remarkably dominant role, establishing foundations in constant dialogue with the sonic space. It’s the fundamental pillar. I’m fortunate to have a very powerful left hand, and that helped me a great deal in shaping those fundamentals. But for me the original model was present, I already had an idea. So I started listening to my fingers. And then as the work progressed it was almost as if the music came to be integrated into the hand. 22 PLEIN JEU
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