The communist editor José Carlos Mariátegui, who published a collection of Eguren's poems, Poesías (1929; "Poetry"), admired his technical mastery but considered him out of touch with reality.
It was, though, the D major sonata, D850, that revealed the characteristic essence of Schubert's piano writing, with Barenboim's mastery of tone, weight and touch turning the spotlight on details of this expansive work, which is playful, wistful and soaring by turns, almost as if Schubert was extemporising as he wrote his score.
Mendelssohn's great work of this period was the String Octet in E Flat Major (1825), displaying not only technical mastery and an almost unprecedented lightness of touch but great melodic and rhythmic originality.
No one could deny his phenomenal keyboard mastery, the almost machine-like control of articulation, and the range of touch and colour he brought to a repertoire that extended from Byrd to Schoenberg.
It took Federer, the world's top player, less than 90 minutes to showcase his touch shots, mastery of angles and all-around court command and reach his 22nd Grand Slam final, a record, and eighth in a row.
This is a compliment of the highest order: Dyer has such a perfect mastery of tone, such a light touch, such a felicitous turn of phrase — on just about every page, there's a sentence that makes me think, God, I wish I'd written that — that he makes me want to go and do it for myself.
These surprisingly powerful works, heard in suave and energetic performances, reveal a composer who combined a mastery of thematic development and chromatic harmony with a lightness of touch — and a bold, operatic lyricism — that remains utterly French.
The feathery touch proves Krasner's mastery of line, but it is balanced, always, by toughness.
We just witnessed the antithesis of the Steve Jobs iPod, iPhone and iPad unveilings, which were always about the jewel-like beauty and mastery of form, about sparking our craving to touch and feel and buy.
Jaks sheer brilliance, his mastery of seven languages, his insight into human nature and his gentleness endeared him to all those lives he touched.
