如何評價鋼琴家Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli？

讓他自己評價吧。

"The playing of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli featured an unforgettable sonority that was an amalgamation of impeccably controlled, awe-inspiring pianistic mastery, a textural sheen that was practically iridescent, and a warmly resilient tone that could seem to defy the acoustical laws of decay built into the sound of the piano.

There was a paradoxical quality to his extraordinary artistry as well. His musical sensibility was often punctilious but just as often concerned with presenting the technical surface of the music in the very best light... Often he embodied a strength of commitment that could result in sovereign grandeur and overwhelming energy, yet elsewhere his playing seemed excessively tangible, marmoreal and spiky rather than evocative.

Michelangeli"s repertory was restricted, honed carefully over many years... A collection of certain pieces turned up repeatedly on his concert programmes."

—— BBC Music August 2010

"To play means labour. It means to feel a great ache in the arms and in the shoulders."

—— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

（因為這段文字在我的翻譯能力之上，很抱歉不能提供令人滿意的譯文。）

還有一個趣聞：Michelangeli曾經因為「我們的鋼琴還不夠好」而拒絕錄製拉威爾的Gaspard de la nuit。這也是他對技巧和音色極致追求的一種體現吧。（另一方面，這也從某種程度上說明了為什麼他的演奏節目和錄音都如此有限。）

最後推兩張我很喜歡的碟。

蟄伏在紛飛戰火中的巨鱷
火炮止息後以強勢姿態出現在世界樂壇的鋼琴巨匠
其純粹的音色擁有乾淨的靈魂
把握著古典樂派內斂的平衡的同時擁有浪漫樂派令人歡喜的藝術感染力
是個苛刻古怪的音樂哲學家

前些年更喜歡被國樂的絲竹管弦撩撥
機緣巧合聽起了鋼琴純音樂
在安利下點進了米開朗傑利的頁面
好在他太過挑剔，留世錄音不算多
我的耐心還足夠一首一首仔細聽完

「古怪孤僻，反常乖戾」
該是個男神

本是有人比我更有發言權，誰叫他也「古怪孤僻，反常乖戾」。
難得點進古典音樂分頁就撞上Michelangeli，決定就算撐得在沙發上打滾也要敲點字來表達一下自己的見解。
非專業評價，匿了匿了。