>>87Don't have much opinion towards her or Moritz Winkelmann's renditions. Both are characterized by technical proficiency and unpretentiousness, and are pleasant to listen to, but nothing more.
Perfection comes with mediocrity or even banality, this is most easily seen in Beethoven's works themselves; his works aren't perfect, sometimes clumsy, sometimes just… you know what I mean, but they're transcendental, they're singular and beyond language. In contrast I sense too much a perfection in e.g. Weithaas' playing. BTW that's why I love Rudolf Serkin's and Vegh Quartet's recordings.
Maybe some people will say this is romanticism nonsense, and they'll frankly show their superiority by claiming their preferred performer's rendition's being "scientific" and "precise", but I don't care what plebs say.