Sometimes it seems that being respectful of the past is merely a moral duty, a sort of reverence toward the "historical document," especially when dealing with solid musicians like Casadesus.
Even to debunk a myth, as much as today as ever, I am not crazy about his Chopin, which appears too textbook-like to me, too focused on absolute equality. Everything seems to resolve into willful self-assertion. To put it simply: perfect, but tells me little or nothing. It is different for Mozart.
Robert Casadesus plays Chopin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX6BUiWYkEc
