<p>Zhang Ruixue<br />Her Scarbo is magnificent, rich in colors, suggestive, but in the same time her strictness in tempo gives this great Sonata-movement his appropriate architecture.<br />I highly admire virtuosity and cleanness of this performance.<br />Beethoven is a big deception. His Sonatas should not be played less, but m o r e expressive than the virtuoso literature. Here is missing the grazioso of the first motif, particularly from bar 18 onwards it sounds nearly military-like. The spirit of dance and humor is also missing. The mystery of strange harmonies in contradiction to the unisono and the simply harmonized aria of the 2. Theme are not made clear, it is just well played, for Beethoven by far not enough.<br />Debussy is good, not as refined and sensual as Scarbo, but all high-level-pianistic.</p>