Artur Schnabel is a pianist unlike any other. One is conscious in listening to him of a powerful and original mind revealing unsuspected meanings and complications in music as familiar as Brahms’s Intermezzi and Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata. His tone is a rule dry in anything above a piano, but a sudden touch of the pedal will sometimes irradiate it, while in his pianissimo, he has endless variety. He played to a full house at Grotrian Hall for the Pianoforte Society on November 26, and appeared less like a pianist playing music than like a scientist who discourses a fascinating subject.
The Musical Times, January 1928.
Cited in Scholes, Percy (1947) The Mirror of Music. London: Novello and Company, vol. 1, p.320.
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