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His picture is above, but a pianist that some people don't know is Dinu Lipatti. He is either considered "famous" or "obscure" depending who you talk to.
Regardless here is Schubert's G-flat major Impromptu!
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjstsWoQiw
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Dominic Cheli a handful of old people, like me, still consider his recording of the Schumann concerto one of the best performances ever of that piece. There's also a wonderful collection of Chopin waltzes available on CD. His great compatriot, Clara Haskil, was lovingly envious and in awe of his prodigious abilities at the piano. I completely agree that he is not nearly as well known anymore as he should be.
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Dominic Cheli Gorgeous! I am happy to know about Dinu Lupatti (1917-1950) Age 33. Thank you!
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Alexander Weymann Alexander, Back in the day, I wore out his recording of the Waltzes. Vinyl doesn't last forever.
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I would say Sviatoslav Richter. This documentary is super great:
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I love the modern day pianists and three of my top favorites are: Johannes Bornlof, Charles Bolt and Peter B Helland. Funny enough, Bornlof and Helland both have an album where they used the same stock backgrounds to design the album art.
Here's a Charles Bolt piece I have found very pleasing in the recent weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhI9KrbKEMI
Here's another beautiful duo with a Saxophone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpb7lnLIMy8
It's hard to pick just one Johannes Bornlof piece, but here's one of epic ones:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLa2o5ymMl8
But he also plays some of the piano master pieces: He is a real master with Nuvole Bianche:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Leof3QTNA
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Constantine Finehouse, the other half of the Kurganov—Finehouse duo, here with a solo piece. https://youtu.be/uaIjOb2zyLw
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Anne Hi Anne, I'm glad to see someone giving Constantine some recognition. I've actually met him in person, when I was playing piano at a party where he was in attendance. I would have been much more intimidated had I known then what a master he was, but instead he was very gracious and chatted with me quite awhile about music. I later heard him play to a packed house in Jordan Hall in Boston several years ago, a beautiful solo piano recital.
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Peter Golemme That is so interesting. I mostly know him as duo partner of Daniel Kurganov. They recently brought out a CD „The Brahms Age“ of the three Brahms sonatas for piano and violin with historic setup. The pianos are really interesting.
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Kirill Gerstein
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The Scriabin Opus 42 Etudes (and, needless to say, the 10 Sonatas) deserve much more recognition as greatly important works. Ching-Yun Hu's performance is wonderful, but for truly revelatory interpretations of all of those works I recommend Ruth Laredo, who caused a sensation of Scriabin rediscovery with her early-1970s Connoisseur Society recordings (hard to find these days).
Russell Meyer Russell Meyer Russell Meyer
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Reinis Zarins from Latvia. I find his take on Kreisleriana both fascinating and novel. Here is a link to the recording:
He’s certainly one to be mentioned.
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I'm thinking Dominic Cheli.
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Michael Filak Dominic has my vote!
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Michael Filak I agree, Michael! I included this below:
Erwin Schulhoff - 8 June 1894 – 18 August 1942 (48 yrs.):
https://www.dominiccheli.com/recovered-voices-1/v/sonata-for-violin-and-piano-no-2-wv
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Pauline Michael Filak Gail Starr Thanks guys!!
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Dominic Cheli
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Michael Filak Dominic Cheli Yes Dominic Cheli for sure!! Not only a brilliant pianist, but also a great communicator of music that is very rare and special. We are lucky here at Tonebase!
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Michael Filak Count me among the Dominic fans! we are so lucky to have such access to him through Tonebase!
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I wonder if Keith Jarrett misses the radar of some "classical" pianists because he is primarily a jazz pianist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6tIzxmPCQE
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GerryM
Keith Jarrett is not only an excellent pianist, he can improvise in a beautiful, musical way and certainly gets my vote. I particularly love part 1 of the Koln Concert.
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Tommytone
Also love Jarrett's Pt.1 Koln concert! There is a fascinating back story to this live recording that became the #1 selling jazz piano recording of all time. Keith almost cancelled the concert; he was very dissatisfied with the piano, it was at the end of a long tour, it was almost not recorded. Listen to the podcast "Cautionary Tales", episode 12/20/19 for all the details.
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There are of course many phenomenal pianists, but I like to name Maestro Dang Thai Son
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Sachi So wonderful to see Bruce Liu continue his legacy.
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