Although perhaps (Brendel) was more plastered on one occasion than the
other. He plays better when plastered, and it did seem that the Liszt
gave the better stereo image, etc. :-) JLS

The music of Abbe Franz Liszt
If loszt would never be miszt.
They all stood aghaszt
As he played oh so faszt
But moszt of the time he was piszt.


When Josef Hofmann's career was in its last stage, when he'd apparently
play brilliantly before the interval then come back on stage tanked up,
a pupil of a friend of Hofmann related going to hear Hofmann play
Chopin and being amazed at his extraordinarily rapid tempo for one of
the more difficult etudes I think it was.
"Why" he asked his teacher, "does he play them so fast?"
"Because he can't play them any faster".

"He has fingers like lightning - they never strike the same place
twice!"