Elena Kuschnerova! What do you think of her?

[rohansahai]

I would like to know your opinions on Elena Kuschnerova (www.elenakuschnerova.com). I find her pretty good, especially the Mephisto Waltz recording, its full of terror and horror!! What do you think?

[johnjwong]

shes good but shes ugly

[sharon_f]

but shes ugly

Real nice, John.   What a sensitive guy!

[ahmedito]

I like the recordings on the site. Shes not that ugly, but that picture of here is the ugliest thing Ive seen. Makes her look a bit donkey faced, you know? It's not her though, its the picture.

[Antnee]

She's pretty good alright... Look at her videos section too. She does a good job with Stravinsky...

[Antnee]

Wow.. and she's got a nice big repertoire...

[goalevan]

shes got such a nice round volumptuous repertoire

[Sketchee]

Goes to show woman pianists really are held to the same standard as men.

[johnjwong]

I DLed a bunch of her videos and she looks to me a woman in 40s dressed up and try to look like shes 20.  And her hair is gosh...  But then she is really kind that she share her video recordings and mp3 recordings with us for free to promote classical music.  She plays nice too and she can play really hard pieces such as gaspard de la nuit.

[Rob47]

How do you listen to Mp4's?

[cziffra777]

I like her playing. I tend not to listen to many living pianists, but she is definitely among those I enjoy.

[donjuan]

wow, that is one nice site!  I saved some of the audio files for burning (man I hope that's legal)

She's pretty amazing!

[gerry]

I picked up on this old thread after a search on her name. I just attended a recital here in Santa Rosa by this remarkable woman. I can't believe the pettiness of the responses on this thread. She is an extremely gracious lady who spoke (with a very noticable Russian accent) between sets on why she chose the pieces she did. We have a small piano concert series here in a very small venue where we are lucky enough to be almost literally on top of the performers and can clearly view the hands/technique. Her career seems to be based mostly in Japan, Russia and other parts of Europe. She performed Bach French Suite #2, Mendelssohn; 3 Songs Without Words and Variations Serieuses; Glinka: Nocturne "La Separation"; Tchaikovsky: Varations in F, Op 19; Lokshin: Prelude and Theme with Variations (a little-known Russian composer 1920-1987 - another of unfortunate artists suppressed by Soviet authorities); and finished with one of the most dazzling performances of Stravinsky's Petrouchka. With regard to the latter, being so close to the keyboard, it was clear how demonically difficult a work it is. In all, a refreshingly varied program - void of many of the chestnuts we normally hear. I'm definitely going try to get my hands on some of Lokshin's music (I believe she has recorded some of it). Anyway, I just wanted to share this and counter some of the shallow/stupid remarks made above. Please, if you have the opportunity to hear her, DO.