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Who are some of your favorite pianists, violinists, cellists?
What about your favorite composers, concertos, sonatas, symphonies, tone poems, etc.?
Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Pletnev and Glenn Gould top my list of pianists.
Violinists include Milstein, Bell, and, of course, Heifetz.
As for cellists, there’s Maurice Gendron, Janos Starker and Wallerstein.
Composers are a hard one. I love so many. But aside from the obvious Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms, there’s Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, et al.
Favorite symphonies are Beethoven “Eroica”, Rachmaninoff 2nd, Mahler 9th, Mozart “Prague”, Prokofiev and Shostakovich 5ths, Stravinsky “Symphony of Psalms” and many more.
Favorite Concertos: Any Mozart Piano Concerto, Glazunov Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto, Prokofiev’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff’s 4th Piano Concerto.
Any Strauss Tone Poem.
Beethoven’s 2nd and 3rd Cello Sonatas, and just about any of his piano sonatas.
This is just a partial list.
As you can see, my taste is quite conventional.
