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I forgot two pianists who are exquisite musicians but never attained the heights of popularity many others did: Ivan Moravec (to whom I was introduced by a Czech scientist) and Janina Fialkowska, whom I stumbled across because of this YouTube channel that compares recordings of (mostly living) pianists playing the same pieces side by side, with intelligent commentary by the owner of the channel, Ashish Xiangyi Kumar. Fialkowska's Chopin etudes are a revelation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0hoN6_HDVU&t=1356s
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Ken Locke Thank you so much for expanding on Fialkowska's gifts and extraordinary history. I had no idea about her illness--how strong her love and understanding of music must be, for her to be so motivated to recreate her performing career. I've just spent the last 10 minutes looking for the YouTube video I'd seen earlier this week with "Canadian Piano Royalty" (Marc-André´Hamelin, Angela Hewitt, and Fialkowska) playing Mozart's concert for three pianos, but it seems to be gone -- argh! Apparently the concert took place on Jan 4 of this year. I wanted to share it with you in thanks for your link, but alas I've come up empty. Perhaps someone else will post it....
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Gayané Liebe-Petrosyan
She has the most beautiful sound colours in all styles!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-QgBodb3dk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJbwsDk3vE
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Briggite Engerer sadly no longer with us is one of my favourite pianists. I always listen to her recordings of Chopin Nocturnes first before learning to play any of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5btAymZyeGc
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Hazel Actually it's Brigitte Engerer!
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Kate Liu - for me one of the best performers of the new generation. I love her sensibility when interpreting the music. She seems to be completely immersed into it.
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Without hesitation, it's Dr. Louann Carnahan. She is a physician, board certified in neurology, and expert in epilepsy. She has played the piano since the age of 5 and has a condition that causes her muscles to weaken over time. Yet --this is the important thing-- she adapts and refuses to give up. She calls herself TheMarionettePianist on YouTube.
May we all have her persistence.
She has a couple of very spoiled dogs too!
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Hércules Gomes, brazilian pianist, has brought to light many forgotten pieces of brazilian repertoire from early 1900, like Chiquinha Gonzaga and Ernesto Nazareth. He received training from a once phelow student of Michelangeli, same teacher of Martha Argerich, and has a solid base of the classics. As you can see on the solidity of his performance, while not losing any of the proper groove of the piece.
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I've been following Tiffany Poon. She is a thoughtful, emotional musician who shares her thoughts, process and practice with her fans.
She has also started a foundation in which she supports young musicians from around the world.
Full disclosure, I support her on Patreon. On this platform she shares videos with her "Patreon family". She really is a delightful person.
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As a good Brazilian, I would like to recommend a great pianist from our country: Jacques Klein. Klein studied in Brazil with Liddy Chiafarelli Mignone and Lúcia Branco (teacher of Nelson Freire and Arthur Moreira Lima). Abroad he studied with William Kapell and Bruno Seidhofer. He won the 1953 Geneva Competition and unfortunately recorded little. To our happiness, the Instituto Piano Brasileiro rescued recordings of him for radio and TV programs that contain valuable material. I leave some links with your records:
