Who is your favorite Classical Pianist that hasn't kicked the bucket.
Me.
Lisitsa is crap
If you want to call yourself a pianist, she is a colleague of yours, which you should honour and respect.
Horribly, I thought Lupu was dead.Thal
"Lisitsa has one of the lowest talent to fame ratios of any classical pianist I know of - I think her success is the result of a series of brilliant Youtube marketing tricks (flashy, well-produced performance videos, playing on the street corner). She plays everything in the same flat dynamic, with no colour. " -
If you rate her rach 3, you are beyond hope.
sounding like a feminist dismissing males views.
So your saying my view of her rach 3 as being good is unrealistic? Meaning she is bad at playing it? Which is absolutely insane to suggest
Better Rach 3s:Lazar BermanSergei RachmaninoffAndrei GavrilovEarl WildVladimir HorowitzOlga KernMartha ArgerichArkadi VolodosEmil GilelsVan CliburnVladimir AshkenazyNikolai LuganskyMikhail PletnevEvgeny KissinYuja WangGülsin OnayGrigory SokolovEvgeny MogilevskyDenis MatuevJorge BoletByron JanisAlexis Weissenbergİdil BiretBoris BerezovskyZoltan KocsisLeif Ove AndsnesShura CherkassyStephen HoughDaniil TrifonovYefim BronfmanThomas YuWorse Rach 3s: Walter GiesekingDavid HelfgottLang LangKathia BuniatishviliI think thal is a bit exaggerating, as I find some of her recordings listenable, but I wouldn't call most of them, especailly Rach 3, good.
Yeol eum son. Ie
Matsuev and Cherkassky, actually, but otherwise your point is well made.The work's world première was given with quite a distinguished composer conducting(!) - which has sometimes prompted me to wonder what it might have sounded like with its own composer conducting and Busoni as soloist...Best,Alistair
Better Rach 3s:Lazar BermanSergei RachmaninoffAndrei GavrilovEarl WildVladimir HorowitzOlga KernMartha ArgerichArkadi VolodosEmil GilelsVan CliburnVladimir AshkenazyNikolai LuganskyMikhail PletnevEvgeny KissinYuja WangGülsin OnayGrigory SokolovEvgeny MogilevskyDenis MatuevJorge BoletByron JanisAlexis Weissenbergİdil BiretBoris BerezovskyZoltan KocsisLeif Ove AndsnesShura CherkassyStephen HoughDaniil TrifonovYefim BronfmanThomas YuWorse Rach 3s: Walter GiesekingDavid HelfgottLang LangKathia BuniatishviliI think thal is a bit exaggerating, as I find some of her recordings listenable, but I wouldn't call most of them, especailly Rach 3, good.I agree: Sokolov&Volodos.
Horribly, I thought Lupu was dead.
I actually thank you for this list! I will get listening. I found it weird you included Rachmaninoff himself in there though, since his is obviously going to be superior to almost any recording because its his very own piece.
I found it weird you included Rachmaninoff himself in there though, since his is obviously going to be superior to almost any recording because its his very own piece.
A shame beethoven is dead as no doubt he would play his sonatas better than Arrau.
It is beyond bad, it is a tragedy. A horse could do better and be equally visually appealing.x.x.x.x.... All her youtube Rachmaninoff should be deleted or have a PG rating so students don't think this is how to play.
come on Thal .... a horse as visually appealing as Lisitsa??? I must say though, from a personal point of view, that her playing does not seem to stir my musical soul, unlike some do.
Thal wouldn't be Thal if he never exaggerated - which said, Valentina has no appeal for me visually and little pianistically, as I mentioned...Best,Alistair
Actually, he well may.
Indeed, but it would not be "obvious".
Actually, he well may.Of course, resurrection ain't gonna save Sergei (or Freddy).
The woman destroys Beethoven and seems only concerned with her bloody hair.No wonder comments have been disabled. Perhaps somebody said what they thought and she and her marketing chaps thought it wasn't good for her legendary status.This is really some of the most empty piano playing I have ever heard.
this is hardly Beethoven at his most inspiring!...
Indeed, but the greater poets can make it sound as if it is.If there is anyone here who cannot detect the superiority, they should give up piano immediately and take up the spoons.