Great sound quality and powerful playing.The playing itself is clear, succinct and virtuosic without being virtuosity for it's own sake.If I do have a complaint, it's really with Schumann—which is why I'm not going to ding it any stars. Listening to Schumann, or too much of him, does get tiresome in a way that can't be said for other composers. After a while, it feels like every piece is a variation on the theme of 'loud'. Schumann gets to banging away at the keyboard, belting out his melodies with such an onslaught of glissandos, chords, and symphonic explosions that one imagines his rump spent most of the time in the air rather than on the piano bench. Easily gets to be monotonous and monochromatic. Schuman's marches are unbridled pomposity. One wins wars with them. Brahms can be that way too, when seemingly influenced by Schumann, but more often shows a tenderness and introspection that seems to escapes Schumann. All, of course, in my subjective opinion.