“Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?”
“Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?”
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Piotr Anderszewski (won the Gilmore award in 2002) is a musician's musician and though he has an established concert career doesn't seem terribly well known here (possibly he's more famous in Europe). I heard him live at Carnegie Hall in 2008 and wrote my impressions: https://wwwmiscellaneousmusings.blogspot.com/search?q=piotr+anderszewski
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The Italian pianist Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998). No showmanship, everything from the heart of a pure soul. Here is his Chopin Ballade no. 1 from a live recital in 1993. Also check out his Liszt and Rachmaninoff
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So many. I will name a few that come to mind instantly.
Shura Cherkassky
Arkadi Volodos
Alexei Volodin
Ilya Itin
Rudolf Kerer
Vlado Perlemuter
Samson Francois
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I only know Lipatti from his recordings, but those are head and shoulders above any other pianist's performances of the same pieces. Chopin's Barcarolle and Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso in particular are extraordinary.
Mieczysław Horszowski is another pianist that I rate very highly. I twice heard him play at the Wigmore Hall in London. The first time was the 80th anniversary of his Wigmore debut, and the second was to celebrate his 99th birthday. Radu Lupu, Andras Schiff and Murray Perahia were in the audience. It was amazing enough that at 99 he could still play the piano, but even more so that he could play better than almost everybody else. He had a way of dissecting the music and putting it together again so that it was absolutely clear how it worked (I have heard something similar in the conducting of Benjamin Britten and Simon Rattle).I have heard Sviatoslav Richter a few times live, and he was another stunning pianist. His recording of Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto puts others in the shade.
Shura Cherkassky had an extraordinary way of playing the piano and made it sound like nobody else.
Glenn Gould, although highly eccentric in his performances, as in his life, is another pianist that I would never like to be without. Every time I listen to his recordings I hear something new in the music that nobody else has brought out. His Bach is decidedly better than his Chopin, however, and he seems to have been completely unable to sustain the Larghetto of Chopin's first piano sonata.
The more I think about it the more pianists come to mind, so I shal stop now.
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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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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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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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Anastasia Huppmann 😊i like her a lot.
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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: -
Definitely Lipatti , and of course Sofronitsky ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Vincenzo Maltempo! 🌞😎✌🏻
https://open.spotify.com/album/1gC3OXYPL0gsoRvKTUXwG9?si=x7Z5kw0ZSf-Z8WFZFNQLGA
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The Brazilian Nelson Freire.