Gilels - the best Beethoven interpreter?

Creative talent is not the same as technical talent. Hendrix may have been the most creatively talented, but no way he was the most technically talented. Had he just been a musician-for-hire he would've been an above average one, but no better. Surely Liszt had to have immense technical talent to play the pieces he composed, but I remember reading that, eg, El Contrabandista, which he wrote as a recital finale showpiece, gave him trouble so he rarely (if ever) performed it. Well, there are now pianists who can play it, Valentina Lisitsa, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_hOY6tEvM Of course, there's more to it than just the obvious technical challenges, namely interpretive nuances, but there's no way of knowing by what Liszt composed how he would've interpreted his own music, much less Beethoven's.

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