12.

Leon Fleisher - Two Hands
⊹ Prelude in G Minor
He lost his right hand for thirty-six years. Think about that, a pianist, half a life without both hands on the keys. And then he got it back, and he sat down and recorded this. The Schubert here is not virtuosity. It is gratitude so large it has no name. Every note played by the returned hand carries the weight of every note it missed, and you can hear it: not in the technique, but in the patience, the way he lets each phrase breathe as though breathing itself were the miracle. This is what it sounds like to be given back something you had already grieved.
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