Re: WAYLTL 2025!

On 5/19/2025 12:10 AM, Owen Hartnett wrote:

Listening to Pogo's infamous Chopin Piano Competition 1980 at:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEPQ9bvW2E
 Amazing playing and performance. I'm definitely with Martha Argerich's opinion
of this.
 -Owen

Question for the group: what do you think about Đặng Thái Sơn, the actual winner of the 1980 competition? His career was completely jeopardized due to geopolitical reasons, these days he may be more famous for having mentored Bruce Liu (winner of the 2021 edition) than for having won the Chopin himself. Quite sad. Several other pianists who participated in the 1980 Chopin but did not do better than honorable mentions had much stronger careers than him, besides Pogo one can think of Angela Hewitt or Alexander Lonquich, even Bernard d'Ascoli!