I played the best Rachmaninoff in town.

An orchestra was playing Rachmaninoff.

Yes, she has a reasonable pianistic stretch, but no, she has never played Rachmaninoff.

Nikolai Lugansky played Rachmaninoff on Sunday and was an absolute whiz at the piano.

Olga Kern played Rachmaninoff on Monday and was an absolute whiz at the piano.

Yup, I say, and he'll have a reach wide enough to play Rachmaninoff.

Almost any pianist playing Rachmaninoff would sympathize; by such standards, most are handicapped in relation to the big-pawed old master.

'Of course it's no problem,' Jamieson said, 'neither is playing Rachmaninoff, not as long as you are a concert pianist.'

"I don't play Liszt, who is the archpianist, or Rachmaninoff," he said, typically dwelling on his limitations rather than his positive attributes.

"It plays Rachmaninoff constantly," she said.