What Vladimir Horowitz does in a large hall in his Carnegie recording, this kind of demonic thing, works very well. So comparisons with orchestral sounds help you define what you are trying to achieve, even in a work as pianistic as this? As a pianist you’ve been playing the piano all of your life; you have a natural association with piano sound. Again, it’s a line of thought that adds fire to the imagination, and the colors that you then draw out. One of the challenges in the piece is how to create tension over the whole, or even just over shorter periods of double octaves, or continuous fortissimo dynamics.

Source: New York Times February 15, 2021 15:00 UTC