I’m both surprised and delighted that so many classical music lovers on this forum came out of the woods to write a comment.
My favorites are Horowitz and Gould.
Great classical pianists
Alexandra Dovgan is the pianist of her generation.
In the last century there was Richter. Today Trifonov. Now a new phenom. What is it in the Russian water that produces such giants of the keyboard?
We enjoy all great pianists. Rubinstein, Pollini, Argerich, Backhaus, Kempf, Michelangeli, Schnabel, Pogorelic, Gilels. Please add your favorite to this embarrassment of pianistic riches. But there is primus inter pares.
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There is too many great not well known piano interpretation miracles ... Antonio Barbosa playing effortlessly the impossible Mazurkas of Chopin which ask for a complex rythm mastery ...Because of this complex rythm oscillation of this peculiar polish dance, Chopin takes all his short life to write them all ...It is my favorite Chopin works ...Almost no pianist perform them as Barbosa effortlessly did ... Brazilian knows something about rythms....Nobody beat him in the mazurkas... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdYwk3Vjqg&list=PLQopr5raEipfPQXYanmfhTpHhPp9abuNZ Or Thierry de Brunhoff rivaling Moravec perfect Nocturnes interpretation in his own warmer intimate way : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8djkKNN4f90&t=803s Preludes : |
Some giants of the piano taught and plays concerts more than they were recorded... One of the greatest pianist of the last century is certainly Heinrich Neuhaus ... This documentary explain why : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCfrtFuYAc&t=53s here he play Chopin concerto no 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_73gQr6OQ Here the master of Lupu, Gilels and Richter and of many other great pianists play Brahms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrQUJ4okM4 Here the master in Rachmaninoff : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so0UgBBR2VQ He perfectly master not only tone colors and rythm but the expression power at a height reach only by a few as Sofronitsky and Nyiregyházi...
Power of expression test is done when we compare any pianist interpretation of Liszt Mephisto waltzes for example ... Nyiregyházi here transcend anyone in powerful madness expression .... Richter cannot even compare to Nyiregyházi Richter - 0:00 Nyiregyházi - 3:40 Comparison of Sviatoslav Richter and Ervin Nyiregyházi playing the same passage from Liszt's 'Vallée d'Obermann'.
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