Attractive PIANISTS!?!?!

[49410enrique]

Nazanin Aghakhani
she's also the first female conductor of the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra


i really like this. so relaxing.

click into the video for a short interesting bio.

[pytheamateur]

Slightly surprised by her dress.  I'd thought it would be too revealing for the current Iranian regime.

[steviesteps]

1  I think Gould looks heart-meltingly gorgeous here

[mobydick]

Have you SEEN what Pogorelich looks like these days?

He looks high as a kite.

[mobydick]

i think it's her boots that did it for me.

i was saving this one but i thought it was too funny not to post.  i didn't make this, and really can't think of what would posses someone to do it but i think its super funny


lang lang

hum.. why is his face so white??

[ahinton]

Slightly surprised by her dress.  I'd thought it would be too revealing for the current Iranian regime.

Not only that, it's no small matter of surprise not only that the orchestra has returned to its long chequered existence but that a woman might conduct it there; the attitudes of the current Iranian régime (that's to say the one since the 1979 Islamic revolution) towards the study and performance of what one might loosely term "Western classical music" in Iran, whilst having been harsher at some times than at others, has hardly ever been what members here would think to regard as any kind of proud record...

Best,

Alistair

[49410enrique]

valerie stern is pretty.

 plays pretty well (at least as well as the score allows, not Mr Shaw's best work but still interesting what he does with it)

i gave her a few bonus points becuase her japanese is so good (which has nothing to do w piano but i have an affinity for all things land of the rising sun)!

[49410enrique]

Evalina Puzaite


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Jitka Čechová


i've always loved this etude, her version is so full of passion and brilliance, one of my favorite performances of this yet!

[j_menz]

Jitka Čechová

Finally, someone who's actually alive. 


 

[49410enrique]

Finally, someone who's actually alive.  


 

ooh low blow...


but fair. i have been sweet on the ladies of yesterday a bit much lately. can you blame me, in mean the past is full of beautiful women!
i mean c'mon....holy smokes! it's been proposed by those before me'...if ever there was an argument for human cloning...'

not a pianist. that's okay!

[49410enrique]

julia gromova

[starstruck5]

Does this thread win the all time viewed thread on PS ever???

[ahinton]

Does this thread win the all time viewed thread on PS ever???

I have no idea, but I seriously hope not.

Best,

Alistair

[lloyd_cdb]

Does this thread win the all time viewed thread on PS ever???

28th most viewed in this section of the forum.  so no

[scherzo123]

+1

[m1469]

"Because when I asked her, she just ignored me.  So, I took it upon myself to open the door and let in the little chipmunk.  The chipmunk smelled pretty horribly, like he had been sipping on that old bottle of whiskey and threw up all day long, and then laid in it while he ate acorns into oblivion.  He somehow dragged himself in, though -- got to hand it to him.

Finally she couldn't resist and took my hat off, seeing the two pieces of cheese I had stored in my hair for my snack later on.  The chipmunk snapped out of oblivion and jumped onto my head, digging madly through my hair to find the cheese.  He just yanked hair out as though it were threads on an old jacket, where once you start to pull, the whole thing comes unravelled.

-- that is the reason I have balding spots on my head."

by Invisible Pianist (in a dress)

[49410enrique]

christina m faye

[49410enrique]

lynda saponara



https://www.lyndasaponara.com/audio.html

https://www.trioatplay.com/listen.html

[49410enrique]

sheila arnold

she really lets it rip at about 2:19 or so
www.sheilaarnold.de

[49410enrique]

Evgenia Papadimas

[costicina]

  Unendless envy...

[49410enrique]

Unendless envy...

then i'm sorry to mess with you even more......"BUT I MUST!"

Sonya Kahn
so nice to hear  great Babajanian performance. The music is so lovely

alternate video. i think people sometimes forget that one of the best ways to measure an effective performance of a piece with a 'dance' - like character/quality is to see if you can do just that. dance to it, or parts of it. well, there you go.

Nice Khataturian-have always freakin loved this piece. the girls gets it. yep.

bonus

[costicina]

If I lit again a cigarette after three weeks of painful abstinence in my desperate attempt to quit, IT'S YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!

[49410enrique]

If I lit again a cigarette after three weeks of painful abstinence in my desperate attempt to quit, IT'S YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!

i'm sorry

[costicina]

Immediatly forgiven!!!!! 

[49410enrique]

Niamh Beddy


Carl Vine - 5 Bagatelles (Complete)

WOW!

[ahinton]

then i'm sorry to mess with you even more......"BUT I MUST!"

Sonya Kahn
so nice to hear  great Babajanian performance. The music is so lovely

alternate video. i think people sometimes forget that one of the best ways to measure an effective performance of a piece with a 'dance' - like character/quality is to see if you can do just that. dance to it, or parts of it. well, there you go.

1. Why would anyone who gives a twopenny damn about the piano want/agree to be photographed sitting on top of one?
2. I have neither the ability nor the desire to "dance" to anything and, since I don't doubt that I am far from alone in this why would what you suggest be "one of the best ways to measure an effective performance of a piece" which has any kind of dance-like quality? - especially given that it's not just humans who dance - music itself can and does that!

Best,

Alistair

[49410enrique]

1. Why would anyone who gives a twopenny damn about the piano want/agree to be photographed sitting on top of one?
2. I have neither the ability nor the desire to "dance" to anything and, since I don't doubt that I am far from alone in this why would what you suggest be "one of the best ways to measure an effective performance of a piece" which has any kind of dance-like quality? - especially given that it's not just humans who dance - music itself can and does that!

Best,

Alistair

hmm good points. and i guess i was wrong, i didn't think/see it like that (but can and do so now that you pointed that out). thanks for correcting me. will keep that in mind next time i hear a 'dance'.

[chopin2015]

[chopin2015]

also, my teacher. She is so badass and pretty. And I'm not gay.

[costicina]

 Off topic, I know, but...  my English is improving dramatically with PS (I whish I could say the same for my piano playing). After "rad" (thank you, R_4), another juicy word to add to my vocabulary.
And thank yopu, Enrique, for the  link to Urban dictionary: a gold mine!!!!

[49410enrique]

beata bilinska
https://www.bilinska.pl/

w patrycja piekutowska on violin

[49410enrique]

diana krall

her new piano album published by alfred is out.  probably one of the 'raciest' piano sheet music covers i've seen in a while (im sure there are more risque ones out there though by others)....

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Diana-Krall-Glad-Rag-Doll/19832044#

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Am I the only one who thinks that Martha Argerich isn't attractive?

[outin]

Am I the only one who thinks that Martha Argerich isn't attractive?

Considering that she is not a blond I am not surprised...
 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Considering that she is not a blond I am not surprised...
 

Hey what the heck is that supposed to mean?!

[outin]

Hey what the heck is that supposed to mean?!

That you are madly and whatever in love with a blond ? 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

That you are madly and whatever in love with a blond ? 

It's not because she's a freaking blond!!!

[outin]

It's not because she's a freaking blond!!!

Of course not, only because she's a nice looking blond who can play Rachmaninoff... 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Of course not, only because she's a nice looking blond who can play Rachmaninoff... 

That's not freaking it either!!!

[outin]

That's not freaking it either!!!

Are you telling me it's because of her intellect then? 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Are you telling me it's because of her intellect then? 

No!

[outin]

No!

Ok, I think I got it now...it's because she's a sexy blond with a heavy accent who can play faster than you...

[vsrinivasa]

Ok, I think I got it now...it's because she's a sexy blond with a heavy accent who can play faster than you...

Agreed.

[49410enrique]

i don't recall her getting added to the list. if so, my bad. this chick is awesome
viktoriya yermolyeva
"After studying at the Tchaikovsky Music Academy in Ukraine (2000), she completed her graduate studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar, and the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola, Italy with the famous pianist Lazar Berman. Further studies took her to the Codarts Academy of Music and Modern Dance, at Rotterdam Conservatory, Netherlands.[1]
 
In the early classical phase of her career, she won a variety of piano competitions, such as 1st Prize at "Filippo Trevisan" competition for Piano Interpretation in Italy, winner of The Grachtenfestival 2005 Amsterdam, 1st Prize at 35th International Competition "Vincenzo Bellini" in Italy, 1st Prize at 20th International Piano Competition "Citta di Marsala", 1st Prize at International Piano Competition “Citta' Di Trani”, 1st Prize at 4th Sigismund Thalberg International Competition, and the Grand Prix at 9th Pierre Lantier International Music Competition in duet with V. Dmitriev (flute) in France.[1]"

her quieter playing is nice too, she has a very pretty rachmaninoff

[unholeee]

^
haha my first sheet music, I bought off her! im sure it's still impossible to play.

[49410enrique]

probably doesn't have too much trouble scoring a date.
www.nicolashorvath.com

steinway artist in france. nicholas horvath
really love that he recently gave recital performances featuring these final fantasy piano opera works. it's super nice to see high caliber artist give unique interpretations of these.

this is nice i had never heard this liszt

[outin]

probably doesn't have too much trouble scoring a date.
www.nicolashorvath.com

We seem to have a very different taste in men 

[49410enrique]

We seem to have a very different taste in men  

i obvsiously have zero ability to guage wheter a dude is attractive or not. just wasn't a factory option when i rolled of the line/i'm not wired up that way. oh well. i'll stick to the ladies then. im much better at that sort of thing.

regina spektor