You have heard Liszt?
You have lived for all time?
Yeah and besides, he was a composer...
Maybe Horowitz can make you cry, but probably not Cziffra.
Violin: L ShankarVoice: Semmangundi, Balamuralikrishna and Ustad Salamat Ali Khan
No composers this time, thanks. COMPOSERS.Ok, in your own opinion, fill up the following:
That doesn't make him a less good musician. One doesn't forbid the other. Tough, it's true we can't REALLY know how a good musician he was.
I will only consider performers from the grammophone era to the present. Paganini and Chopin and Malibran et al must have been stellar but we cannot really know. 1. PianistJosef Hofmann2. ViolinistNathan Milstein3. CelloistJacqueline DuPre/Gregor Piatagorsky (tossup)
Brahms, who was scathingly critical, said, "If you haven't heard Liszt, you cannot speak of the piano."
Some indian musician especially the vocalists are simply superhuman.L.Shankar is a bit uneven but sometimes he is alone in his greatness.
3. Yo Yo Ma (I just like his name)Thal
P:Arthur TatumV:Jascha HeifetzC:probably Emanuel FeuermannS:Kathleen Ferrier/Benianmino GigliAndyP.S. Wasn't it Brahms who once pretended to snore after a few bars or Listz's playing? Some comment on that particular performance.
you forgot the singers. what do you think on those brewtality?
[I feel compelled to agree with the Rachmaninoff - but what sways me back the other way is that he didn't have much of a repertoire outside his own music./quote]Not sure about that.He could play some Alkan like Comme Le Vente for instance and all of Beethoven´s Sonatas but never recorded them.When I hear greatest musician I think of multi-instrumentalists.Enescu is a name that comes to mind when you speak about the greatest multi instrumentalist.
I feel compelled to agree with the Rachmaninoff - but what sways me back the other way is that he didn't have much of a repertoire outside his own music.Not sure about that.
No composers this time, thanks. COMPOSERS.Ok, in your own opinion, fill up the following:1. Pianist2. Violinist3. Celloist4. Singer (And I mean OPERA, NOT POP )Thanks,ihatepopPianist: PletnevViolinist: PerlmanCelloist: ShaoSinger: Kelly Karlkson