Géza Anda talking and rehearsing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (1966)

Géza Anda talking about and playing Tchaikovsky in Paris, 1966.
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 op. 23 with Orchestre National de France and David Zinman.
"The magic of Anda's piano playing lies primarily in his extraordinary culture of touch. There are just a very few piano sounds in the world just as beautiful. [...] When he plays passages, and even longer, tied scale-like melodies across the whole keyboard, the tone color changes like alternating human voices: the alto becomes tenor, the tenor darkens to bass. And then there are those special, hardly pressed, almost just palpated middle voices running and gliding through in the Schumann works, that conjures almost a hoffmannian atmosphere around Anda's performance. Is it just the technique, a question of touch only? By no means. We have been talking about the music for a long time [...]" - György Kroó

"One special favorite of mine is Géza Anda who I think is such an underrated pianist and a great musician. A lot of young people don’t know him. There was such a natural way of making music in what he does. He was spontaneous, so alive, totally without makeup, and so honest. Without being shy, he takes risks. His playing is a wonderful combination of intellect and intuition." - Leif Ove Andsnes

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