Instinct was always stronger in d`Albert than being conscious,
   his technique a gift from nature which gave him his amazing
   piano fingers.  And his head only dictated things great,
   gigantic, massive, dramatic.  dAlbert actually always played
   unlyrically, unsentimentally, like one who wanted to shake
   off his chains, who seemed to rebel against world and fate.

     Julius Korngold, 1932

Robert Peters