...and practice! 🙂

Please see this article for ideas already programmed into these very playable, very adjustable acoustic pianos... adjust until you are happy:

Assignable Knob Study: Piano

Not sure if this is close enough in terms of the piano sound. I don't have the sustain pedal hooked up - so that would help.

https://clyp.it/u1smcshd

Just took CFX piano and adjusted the master effects.

As usual, this is recorded with the worst possible configuration. Not direct line-in. Laptop microphone recording a single (not stereo) reference monitor speaker - plenty of key noise to go along with it.

Hey, thanks everyone.

And, yes, practice 🙂

You could buy a stage piano like CP1 or a real piano. Sampled pianos will always have some limitations but Montage is as near to the best that you'll find on a synth. You can always add the BBE or a fine mixer and/or experiment with the tips and tricks as suggested herein. Another GIGANTIC factor will be your studio monitors and/or speakers. If you've ever played a real piano in the same room as an electronic reproduction there's no contest unless the sound system is phenomenal. If you're located out of the sweet spot it won't sound that good either. A stage piano has the task of reproducing the most realistic piano possible and not necessarily a synth.The Montage I love, it's just not a piano but does a good impersonation. The CP1 piano velocity range is unlimited, not really, but close and when you play it hard it gets really loud. The Montage stops well short of the type of response. It's much improved on the soft, delicate side and it does what it does well.

Hello G - I would think 'Pianoteq' because of the clarity of both upper and lower registers. They produce a program of mathematically modelled pianos of outstanding quality, and it's standalone - doesn't need a DAW - and Montage can drive it. Expensive, but so is a Bechstein - and they go back in time, as well, with 18th: century pianos. I'm saving up ...

Then again, as BM cogently pointed out, the pianist was a Master ...

If you favor something more "plug and play": Moody CFX or CFX Shrine also come close to that kind of sound. I rolled up the EQ in the mid-high and high by using the [EQ/FX] button and using the knobs to accomplish that. Also, most of these pianos with effects have mod-wheel control for the delay/reverb effect amount which can be "rolled back" by putting the modwheel in something other than the bottom position. I roll it back about a 1/4 turn - suit to taste.

Thanks again everyone!