Happy Birthday, Ervin Nyiregyházi!

A longer blog post is coming shortly, but for now I just wish to mark the 121st birthday of the criminally underrated Hungarian-American pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, whose genius worked two of the most heartstoppingly beautiful piano recordings I have heard. A solo piano arrangement of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2's slow movement, and Liszt's Evening Bells. Nyiregyházi's genius is the ability to take a slow tempo, jagged, intense cantabile and thunderously raw textures, and combine them to make something of such soul-shaking rapture that.... well, just listen to the part from 6:24 in the below video.