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Topic: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?  (Read 3953 times)

Offline opus10no2

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Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
on: November 05, 2008, 02:46:43 PM
Some pianists have cool looking hands and techniques that are also just enjoyable from a purely visual perspective.

For me - Hamelin, Lugansky, Kissin, Cziffra, Libetta, Gilels, Richter, Horowitz.

As unique to watch as listen almost! ;D
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 02:49:14 PM
I saw a Horowitz video and I can't forget about it.
Also there's this girl I saw in a piano competition, when she plays scales, her fingers go flipping in a weird way, which I also like.
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #2 on: November 06, 2008, 11:57:24 PM
Michelangeli, Richter.

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #3 on: November 07, 2008, 03:28:22 PM
Argerich's video of Strauss's Burleske.  (It's on YouTube.)

A real visual pianistic feast!  It's the only Argerich video I've seen where one can really get a good look at her hands in action. 

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #4 on: November 07, 2008, 03:44:15 PM
My favorite pair of hands to watch are Argerich's.  They're just so beautiful.

I also enjoy watching Michelangeli. 

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #5 on: November 07, 2008, 03:45:07 PM
Argerich's video of Strauss's Burleske.  (It's on YouTube.)

A real visual pianistic feast!  It's the only Argerich video I've seen where one can really get a good look at her hands in action. 

Argerich's Rach 3 is on Google Videos.  Highly recommended.

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #6 on: November 07, 2008, 04:02:15 PM
Basicly i only watch my own hands since i dont really watch other people playing, only listen. That is how i dont get too sick when experiencing Lang Langs music.
Anyway, that must mean that my favourite pair of hands to watch are my own ;)
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #7 on: November 07, 2008, 05:42:31 PM
Argerich's Rach 3 is on Google Videos.  Highly recommended.
IMO, very incompetently filmed.  Few good shots of Argerich -even fewer of her hands- and the producer seemed more interested in showing us Chailly conducting, even mopping his brow during the cadenza.  It's all so frustrating that I can't watch it, but glad it is something you have enjoyed!   

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #8 on: December 04, 2008, 03:45:08 PM
err..fetish? ???
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #9 on: December 08, 2008, 05:09:35 AM
I invoke rule 34!

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #10 on: December 08, 2008, 05:21:11 AM
hi newbie! tell us what rule 34 is and ur other account name(s) 8) 8) ;D
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #11 on: December 08, 2008, 07:34:42 AM
hi newbie! tell us what rule 34 is and ur other account name(s) 8) 8) ;D
It's quite ironic that you're calling smooze a newbie yet you don't know what rule 34 is  ::)

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #12 on: December 08, 2008, 02:03:38 PM
It's quite ironic that you're calling smooze a newbie yet you don't know what rule 34 is  ::)

did u notice that it was smooze's first post? and did you read that it says ehmm..newbie under his/er id name and membership kind? do you know rule 34? what is being ironic? i dont understand ??? ???
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #13 on: December 09, 2008, 03:51:19 AM
It all happens on Discworld, where greed and ignorance influence human behavior... and perfectly ordinary people occasionally act like raving idiots.

A world, in short, totally unlike our own.

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #14 on: December 09, 2008, 04:10:03 AM
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #15 on: December 09, 2008, 04:43:03 AM

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #16 on: December 09, 2008, 04:49:27 AM
You really don't learn!

omg!...hahaha, u think? ;)

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #17 on: December 09, 2008, 07:33:22 AM
I have a classmate whose hands and fingers are more flexible than a pianist.

But she doesn't play the piano because she is a master ofa certain martial arts.
But I love to see the hands of her master who can push up using one finger.

That is whatI call the best potential virtuoso performer...   :) ::)




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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #18 on: December 09, 2008, 03:23:45 PM
Richter's and Cziffras
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #19 on: December 17, 2008, 02:07:22 AM
Richter and Cziffra for sure (Chopin 10/4 and Liszt Gnomenreigen respectively)

And Claire Huangci playing Prokofiev Toccata - the fastest I've seen, and I don't know the piece well enough note for note, but sounds quite accurate... her hands go insane!! It's on youtube, check it out  8)
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #20 on: January 31, 2009, 11:07:41 PM
Martha Argerich's hands are perfect

Offline point of grace

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #21 on: February 05, 2009, 02:46:54 AM
o enjoy argerich's, and hate horowitz's and have fun with perahia's
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #22 on: August 04, 2015, 04:31:52 PM
Gould's hands. I think his hands looked so slender and flexible , well protected by wearing gloves all the time

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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #23 on: August 04, 2015, 04:39:30 PM
I don't really care that much about how hands look from performer to performer.

That said I would probably go with Cziffra, Pogorelich, Yuja Wang and Richter. These are just my all around favourites though.
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Re: Your Favourite Pair of Hands to Watch?
Reply #24 on: August 04, 2015, 10:27:02 PM
Rubinstein. Definitely.
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