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Sundry Strokes by Rosalinda L. Orosa, Manila Bulletin

The Oxford dictionary defines tour de force as “a performance or achievement that has been accomplished with great skill.” In the light of Raul Sunico’s recent engagement at the CCP auditorium, we might “improve” on that definition by changing “great skill” to “incomparable skill.” Why?

Because it is to be gravely doubted that any other pianist, here or abroad, has duplicated (or can duplicate) Sunico’s feat of playing in succession four Rachmaninoff concertos — No. 1 in F Sharp Minor, No. 2 in C Minor, No.

4 in G Minor and No. 3 in D Minor — brilliantly and without a score — at one sitting.

We might observe further that if No. 1 is replete with swift runs and swifter trills, massive chords and rippling arpeggios spanning the entire length of the piano keyboard, so do the others contain comparatively contain the same awesome technical demands in R