Favorite Rising Star Pianists

[cadenza14224]

As a continuation of a thread below about favorite 20th Century Pianists, I'd love to see people's takes on the new generation of pianists! My current personal favorites are:

1. Yuja Wang
2. Freddy Kempf
3. Alice Sara Ott
4. Benjamin Grosvenor
5. Yundi Li

[austinarg]

Yundi Li a rising star?? He's been around for at least 10 years...

[sevencircles]

Claire Huangci

I haven´t heard any recent recording but she had an incredible technique for her age and played in a really tastefull way too.

[cadenza14224]

Yundi Li a rising star?? He's been around for at least 10 years...

I guess it's wrong to call him a rising star...but since he is only 29, and came to prominence in the early 2000's, I still consider him a fairly new and rising pianist, and am sure he is not as fully realized as he will be in the coming decade or two.

[elenka]

Mine is Lukas Geniušas I had the chance to listen to his concert which took place in my city...so amazing

[49410enrique]

Bach Scholar.

[49410enrique]

Bach Scholar.

just kidding.

[pianist1976]

Bach Scholar.

LOL

[jdledell]

I am always thrilled by Valentina Lisista. Her Chopin and Rachmaninoff interpretations go right to my very soul.

[zzivauri]

   You really must see HJ Lim on Youtube and Khatia Buniatishvili-(there! I spelled it!)  very much food for thought...and the interview with HJ Lim where she says her mother allowed her to go to live in Paris at age 12 to pursue her dream.  I'm not clear on how to post addresses and pics and so forth yet... Pardon me.

[fftransform]

Kempf and Li have been around for quite some time.  You might as well throw Cortot on there.


How about Eduard Kunz?

[thalbergmad]

Yuja Wang impresses me the most, but I guess one could already say she already is a star.

However, she should leave Tatum alone. That was about as stiff as an ironing board.

Thal

[silversteel]

A friend told me that Lang Lang is getting better. Is that true or does he still overdo things?

[minor9th]

Based on his new Decca CD, Behzod Abduraimov.

[49410enrique]

yeol eum son. she is superb. it's a shame she missed out on first place at last year's tchaikovsky competition. but she is consistently great, i will not be surprised when she takes top prize at a or several big comps soon. i am just mesmerized by her, i can watch her to no end and not get tired of her.

https://www.tchaikovsky-competition.com/en/2011/piano/competitors/Son

[ferdinand_]

A friend told me that Lang Lang is getting better. Is that true or does he still overdo things?

Lang Lang is a good pianist. I liked his work on the soundtrack of Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. The score is from Howard Shore, but he played an arrangement from Wagner's Siegfried-Idyll.

[wildman]

Yuja Wang impresses me the most, but I guess one could already say she already is a star.

However, she should leave Tatum alone. That was about as stiff as an ironing board.

Thal

Have you heard of this through my posts or by yourself?

Also what I'm also curious about is the over-conservatism of most people who listen to pianists playing works of improvisers. I think they assume the interpreter to redo the recording exactly as how it was played?

If the long-dead Classical pantheon (Beethoven, Mozart etc.) lived today and recorded their works, let's see how many interpreters will survive criticism. Perhaps very few. 

I'm not being rude here, just making an observation. I may be wrong though...(but I do think Steven Mayer's too far off from Tatum in that regard to be pleasing or acceptable to my ears...lol).

[thalbergmad]

Have you heard of this through my posts or by yourself?

I had no idea Miss Wang had played Tatum until I read it here. On listening to her recording, I thought she should have left it alone.

Just like Mayer playing Tatum or Menuhin playing with Grappelli, it just sounded like a classical trained artist trying to play jazz and failing miserably. All the notes are there, but it has not got any swing and is as flat as a witches tit.

Thal

[sophie117]

Khatia Buniatishvili. I'm waiting for her to record her brahms 2..

[franz_]

I heard some names I have to agree with:

Kunz
Abduraimov
Geniusas

I'd like to add Bozhanov, Trifonov, Kozhukhin