When I play piano my teachers keep reminding me of one thing that few people can do
Playing with emotion
Pouring your soul into a piece so much that other will hear a story being told visibly in their head
To hear the emotions the composer brought with them into the piece is something magical entirely
His pauses are extensions into one's soul, it allows you to savoir, acclimate, transcend into his phrasing so as to cultivate his thoughts, emotions and the sequence to which it originated from.
My wife gave birth to premature twins almost a month ago. They finally came home. I was feeding the boy and my wife had this playing on the iPod. Now, normally I'm an emotional tank, but in this moment in the early hours, for the first time in perhaps years, I was truly overcome. I am a Chopin man, but Chopin never made me cry like that. That moment will see me to the end. Thank God for music like this.