Name the pianists...

[tompilk]

Who can get them all right first?

I made it as a background for my desktop but i thought it might be interesting...
Tom

ANSWER LOWER DOWN IN THE PAGE...

[brahmsian]

From left to right....

Hamelin
Volodos(?)
Richter
Liszt
Horowitz
Rachmaninoff
Argerich
Scriabin
Horowitz again
Cziffra
Alkan(?)
No clue whose hands those are (Godowsky maybe)
Rachmaninoff again

[gruffalo]

argerich? theres no women there.

[brahmsian]

argerich? theres no women there.

On top of Scriabin

 

[gruffalo]

ah, didnt see that.

[pianistimo]

hamelin, kissin, richter, liszt (left to right)
horowitz, rach, argerich & mac dowell? (or is it scriabin?  i don't think i've seen a pic of either)
rubenstein, watts, alkan young/old (cortot's hands), rach

[I Love Xenakis]

Hamelin---Cliburn---Richter---Liszt
---------------------------------argerich
horowitz-----rachmaninov
--------------------------------scriabin
-------------------mussorgsky---alkan
horowitz----cziffra-------------------rachmaninov
------------------------godowsky

[brewtality]

Hamelin, Volodos, Richter, Liszt, Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Argerich, Scriabin, Horowitz, Cziffra, Alkan, dunno, Rach's hands, Rach.

[cherub_rocker1979]

hamelin, kissin, richter, liszt (left to right)
horowitz, rach, argerich & mac dowell? (or is it scriabin?  i don't think i've seen a pic of either)
rubenstein, watts, alkan young/old (cortot's hands), rach

You're confusing Volodos with Kissin.

[stevie]

hahaha

all easy except the dude next to alkan

[arensky]

hahaha

all easy except the dude next to alkan

Ah thinks that dude is Leschetizky......

[pianistimo]

hmmm.  ok - leschetizsky.  and i change the hands to rach's now that i look at them.

ps is that what scriabin looked like?  not mac dowell, i take it.

[tompilk]

Ill give it a little longer and then post the answers... has no one got the guy next to scriabin?
Tom

[pianistimo]

barry douglas with his head shaved?  actually, it almost looks like lance armstrong.  what is he doing playing the piano?

are you sure it's not rachmaninov?

[thalbergmad]

Methinks the geyser next to Alkan is Henselt.

[skeptosaurus]

Saint-Saens is the unknownpenis next toAlkan?=P

[tompilk]

lol... no-one guessed it right.... the answer was Balakirev!!!
Heres all of them...

The unmarked one is argerich.. sorry for not labelling her...

Is everyone up for another one?

[tompilk]

This next one is a little harder... but manageable... some are in colour too...

[stevie]

chopin, sorabji, rzewski
berezovsky, ashkenazy, berlioz(not a pianist)
john cage..., arrau, lugansky

make them harder! 

[tompilk]

ok... you got them all but ill make a harder one.
Tom

[stevie]

did you intend the inclusion of berlioz to be ironic?

becuase its well known that he is just about the only great composer who could barely play the piano

[thalbergmad]

did you intend the inclusion of berlioz to be ironic?

becuase its well known that he is just about the only great composer who could barely play the piano

A few other composers were not much good either.

Verdi, Bellini & Donizetti for instance.

Debateable if they woz in the great department.

[tompilk]

this should be an awful lot harder...
7/10 found...

[thalbergmad]

The one in the middle of the first column is Orsen Wells.

[stevie]

bottom 2nd from left , i think is czerny

i recognise most of the rest, but its hard to put a name to them

the baroque composer might be rameau?

middle left is ginastera

the bottom left i think is a conductor, cant recall his name

[tompilk]

The one in the middle of the first column is Orsen Wells.

mmm... lol i dont think so... you got three letters right though...

bottom 2nd from left , i think is czerny

i recognise most of the rest, but its hard to put a name to them

the baroque composer might be rameau?

middle left is ginastera

the bottom left i think is a conductor, cant recall his name

Czerny is correct. Baroque is not Rameau. Ginastera is also correct. The bottom left may have conducted, im not sure, but he has written a famous toccata which two people have played in the audition room... to give you a hint...

Two down, eight to go...
you asked for a hard one...
i thought that one of you would have got top right... he could play revolutionary in octaves...

[brewtality]

bottom right is Karol Szymanowski-great composer

[tompilk]

Correct

[brewtality]

is the guy with the moustache Samuel Feinberg?

[tompilk]

is the guy with the moustache Samuel Feinberg?

Nope

[brewtality]

well we'll take dreyschock off then, unless someone else played it in octaves. twas a big clue though.

[brewtality]

ooh its granados!

randomly this is more composers than pianists.

[stevie]

thats vivaldi?

i thought this was a piano forum

and khaturian pregnant cat(sp)

mildly

[tompilk]

Nope. No vivaldi.. granados and khatchurian are though...

[stevie]

haha, well i knew it was either vivaldi, rameau, or telemann

true

[kreso]

Is ti Ligeti in the third row?

[tompilk]

no ligeti but telemann is correct... well done stevie!!!

[I Love Xenakis]

damn the only one i knew was ginastera o.o


tchaikovsky i believe in the top right.

[tompilk]

*** the only one i knew was ginastera o.o


tchaikovsky i believe in the top right.

nope... sorry
here's one for you i love xenakis...

[I Love Xenakis]

hahahaha!  I like how he hides his left eye with the shadows.

randomly xenakis

[arensky]

This next one is a little harder... but manageable... some are in colour too...

Clockwise from upper LH corner, ending in the middle...

Chopin, Sorabji, Rzewski, Berlioz, Pletnev, Arrau, ? , Berezovsky, Ashkenazy

[arensky]

this should be an awful lot harder...
5/10 found...

Again clockwise from the upperLH corner ending in the middle; this is harder!

Villa -Lobos, J.C. Bach (seen that pic before, not sure though), Smetena, John Ogdon(?), Szymanowski, Granados, Czerny, Stokowski (?), Ginastera, Clifford Curzon (?)

[tompilk]

Again clockwise from the upperLH corner ending in the middle; this is harder!

Villa -Lobos, J.C. Bach (seen that pic before, not sure though), Smetena, John Ogdon(?), Szymanowski, Granados, Czerny, Stokowski (?), Ginastera, Clifford Curzon (?)

Very close!
Villa-Lobos, Smetana, symanowski, Granados, Ginastera are correct. We have already worked out that the middle top is Telemann so im afraid Bach is incorrect. We also obtained Katchachurain (or however you spell it).

So far: 7/10