maybe OP meant "on" the market and is simply hoping to score a date with a good pianist..
haha "market" - #ways_to_destroy_an_artformcould be a typo? maybe OP meant "on" the market and is simply hoping to score a date with a good pianist..
wot? I mean in the concert pianist market obviously, isn't there a "market" out there for concert pianists where evrybody is competing??? dirty minds.
Some people would propably say that Volodos and Kissin are the best pianists below 50 even if you include everyone.
demanding that I have a technical play off with other musicians to see who's the best. Not interested, and neither have any of the other pianists been - and I doubt the majority of world class pianists would be either.
Yet, there remains the plethora of piano competitions that everyone fetishises.
Is that about making music, or making saleable public profiles pianists?
Making the organisers feel important, methinks.
..and pumping up judges egos by allowing them to belittle genuinely creative artists who've had the balls to stray away from the score in a public arena.
Well, Agerich was actually quite nice about Pogorellich.
Haha! Yes, but didn't she also resign from the judging in protest to the overall result (atleast wiki says so).. she's not the norm.
Lang Lang!
Lang Lang is the best living pianist in the world!!
You do really need to broaden your horizons.Unless you're on the payroll, in which case WORK HARDER!!!
Helene Grimaud
Krystian zimmerman Is he under 50? Oh well still the best
Born 1956, so do the math.Also only two "m"s in total.
You are kidding. She loves wolves more. Great but not the summum.Small repertoire I have the impression.
Jonathan Powell is 45, so... no contest.
I have immense respect for Mr Powell, but it is very difficult to make a judgement compared to other pianists, as his repertoire leans towards the plinkers.Thal
Playing worthless apeshit like Sorabji and Finnissy gives us little idea of how good he is, as a deranged baboon could perform the same works.Thal
The taste in repertoire is irrelevant. My point is it is difficult to make comparisons with other pianists due to a lack of common repertoire.Playing worthless apeshit like Sorabji and Finnissy gives us little idea of how good he is, as a deranged baboon could perform the same works.Thal
He has played Classical and even Baroque works extensively.
I read only recently that a wolf killed a baby so they are dangerous unpredictable creatures. What does anyone else think?
Indeed and I know someone who found it a relief to get out of the concert hall after hearing him play Beethoven. He might well be the best plinker pianist on the market, but until I have heard him play Rachmaninov, Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin, I cannot compare him to other suggestions in this thread as there is no common framework.Thal
I think Valentina Lisitsa is a fantastic pianist!
Then I must make myself 100% clear. Alkan is not a plinker. He is s P0.Thal
Yeah, the composer of one of the greatest sets of theme and variations of the 19th century is a "plinker". That piece alone would make him immortal, but he also wrote some of the most forward looking, beautiful, and strange miniatures ever conceived - the Esquisses Op. 63. And then there's Quasi-Faust, the Op.39 Symphony and Concerto, great Violin and Cello Sonatas...it goes on. Alkan = great composer. You = poast hackish nonsense on this webzone
I am still none the wiser.