But the mental challenge will be perhaps even greater. You cannot simply play the first three sonatas in the same manner as the mature Tenth. We will be dealing constantly with Beethoven's three creative periods through the entire year of 1998. Your choice of Lambert Orkis was a surprise at the time. There are many reasons.
Musical collaboration is something that has to grow.
I think not. I need a pianist with broad stylistic ability and a great intuitional grasp. And finally, I need someone who expresses his own opinion. Lambert is all of this. But he is not a soloist that has to be in the foreground.