What pianists for what composers?

[musicsdarkangel]

I have realized that I can't think of a better pianist for Beethoven's work than Brendel.  He is incredible, and I know that I won't find another pianist who does Beethoven's work quite like him.

I have also gained enormous respect for Gould playing Bach, Arrau playing Liszt, Alexeyev playing Rachmaninoff.


What other relationships between pianists and composers can you all make?

I want to listen to it all.

[Nina_too]

Rubinstein playing Chopin.  Especially the waltzes.  It just doesn't get any better than that, IMHO.

[presto agitato]

MY FAVORITES:

Bach: Gould

Mozart: Brendel

Beethoven: Brendel (Sonatas) Kempff (Concertos)

Schubert: Brendel or Perahia

Schumann: Kempff

Liszt: Czifra

Mendelssohn: Perahia (Concertos)  Ilse von Alpenheim (Songs Without Words)  Benjamin Frith (Sonatas and Caprices)

Chopin: Anievas and Pollini (Etudes) Pollini (Preludes) Zimerman (Ballades)  Barenboim (Nocturnes)  Zimerman (Concertos)  Zimerman  (Waltzes)

Brahms: Not sure

Saint-Saens: Not sure

Mussorgsky: Kissin

Skriabin: Marc-André Hamelin

Rachmaninov: Vladimir Ashkenazy

Hope this help.

[kempff]

Bach: Gould

Beethoven: Kempff, Brendel, Arrau, Serkin (sonatas and concertos)

Brahms: Kutchen, Gilels (concertos), Richter (sonatas), Kempff

Schubert: Kempff, Brendel

Schumann: Kempff, Richter

Mozart: Schiff, Brendel, Kempff

[anda]

Bach: richter

Mozart: gilels

Beethoven: Brendel, barenboim (Sonatas) Kempff, argerich (1st, 2nd), michelangeli (5th) (Concertos)

Schubert: radu lupu

Schumann: radu lupu, lipatti, horowitz (esp. kreisleriana)

Grieg: lipatti

Liszt: Czifra

Chopin: cortot, rubinstein, kissin, argerich

Brahms: radu lupu, rubinstein (1st concerto)

Mussorgsky: richter, Kissin

Rachmaninov: richter, argerich, volodos, rachmaninov, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Prokofiev: ashkenazy, argerich, kapell

Khatchaturian: kapell

Bartok: lipatti, argerich

[eugene_oneg]

I agree with most other people's choices. But for the following

Bach: Gould but also Tatiana Nikolayeva.

Scriabin: Sofronitzky, if you have not heard him yet listen to him you will see why.
              BTW he was son in law of Scriabin. No other than Richter said he was   a god and Gilels said he was the best of pianists. It is unsane how poetic this man was.

Schubert: Sofronitzky. There is such a direct expression in his playing.

Chopin: I would add Rachmaninov to the list. Cortot's interpretation is very inspirational. I personally dislike Rubinstein's rubato in Chopin. His timing leaves something off the music especially in the Waltzes and Mazurkas.

Hummel: Steven Hough

Mozart: I forgot her name... she was swiss, and there is an internationnal piano compretition named after her. Unfortunately there is not much recording of her....oh yes.. Clara Haskil.

Rachmaninov: himself (despite what he said). but also other people mentionned.

Beethoven: Brendel, Arrau, Kempff, Perahia.

[hodi]

Rachmaninov: himself (despite what he said). but also other people mentionned.

what rachmaninov said?

[cziffra777]

Bach: Richter, Feinberg
Beethoven: Schnabel, Levy
Chopin: Francois, Sokolov, Cortot
Liszt: Cziffra, Levy, Horowitz
Mozart: Horzowski
Rachmaninoff: Richter, Horowitz, Argerich
Scarlatti: Horowitz
Scriabin: Sofronitsky

[shasta]

Saint-Saens:  Pascal Roge

Ravel:  Ivan Moravec

Albeniz:  Alicia De Larrocha

Ives:  Marc-Andre Hamelin

Granados:  Alicia De Larrocha

Lecuona:  Thomas Tirino

Confrey:  Eteri Andjaparidze

Ginastera:  Martha Argerich or Eduardo Delgado

[zemos]

Bach - Gould.
Haydn- Gould.
Mozart- Brendel.
Beethoven - Brendel (&Zimerman for the concertos).
Schubert - Schiff/Brendel.
Chopin - Ashkenazy/Zimerman.
Liszt - Zimerman.
Brahms - Ashkenazy.
Rachmaniniov - Horowitz.
Debussy - Gieseking.
Prokofiev - Ashkenazy.
Bartok - Kocsis.
Shostakovich - Shostakovich (hehe)/Gould.

As you can see, most of the names repeat themselves at least twice. It's just that when I like one pianist's interpretation for a piece, I'll probably like his interpretation for all the pieces of the composer, and many times I also like his performance for some other composers because he's really good...
It's not that I like these and only these, but they are my favorites (:...

[m]

MY FAVORITES:


Skriabin: Marc-André Hamelin

Rachmaninov: Vladimir Ashkenazy

Sorry! Although there are some matches in this list I'd argue, these two are ones where I'd really highly disagree. Although I highly respect Hamelin in some repertoire, IMO he understands nothing in Scriabin--he just completely lacks type of pianism and musicianship Scriabin demands.
Same goes for Ashkenazy and Rachmaninov. I'd say Ashkenazy plays Rachmaninov the way how one should not play Rachmaninov.

[donjuan]

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[redhead]

Bach:  richter, gould
Beethoven: richter
Schubert: richter
Chopin (sonatas): kapell
Liszt (sonata):  richter, watts
Scriabin: lane, richter
Rachmaninov: richter
Ravel (gaspard): pogorelich
Prokofiev: richter


Can any guess who my favorite pianist is?   

[m]

Rachmaninoff - Hofmann...

Just wondering if you mean Josef Hofmann? The only recording of Rachmaninov I know of him recorded is Prelude in C# minor. If it is so, it is really hard to judge from one this piece how he played Rachmaninov.

[m]

Bach:  richter, gould
Beethoven: richter
Schubert: richter
Chopin (sonatas): kapell
Liszt (sonata):  richter, watts
Scriabin: lane, richter
Rachmaninov: richter
Ravel (gaspard): pogorelich
Prokofiev: richter


Can any guess who my favorite pianist is?   

Barenboim?

[dlu]

Ligeti!!!-Aimard
Lutoslawski (concerto)-Zimerman
Schoenberg-Gould/Pollini
Brahm's (1st concerto)-Gould...no joke
Bach-Gould
Rachmaninoff-(concertos) Gould!...jk...Rachmaninoff...duh?!
Schumann-(Carnaval op. 9) Rachmaninoff and Myra Hess in second...
Grieg-(concerto)Samson Francois
Ravel-Samson Francois
Debussy-Gieseking
BEETHOVEN- (drum roll please.....................) GOULD....
Haydn-......GOULD!!!
Scarlatti-Michelangeli or Pletnev....
Chopsticks-Liberace

that's all for now...

DLu

[dlu]

Ligeti!!!-Aimard
Lutoslawski (concerto)-Zimerman
Schoenberg-Gould/Pollini
Brahm's (1st concerto)-Gould...no joke
Bach-Gould
Rachmaninoff-(concertos) Gould!...jk...Rachmaninoff...duh?!
Schumann-(Carnaval op. 9) Rachmaninoff and Myra Hess in second...
Grieg-(concerto)Samson Francois
Ravel-Samson Francois
Debussy-Gieseking
BEETHOVEN- (drum roll please.....................) GOULD....
Haydn-......GOULD!!!
Scarlatti-Michelangeli or Pletnev....
Chopsticks-Liberace

that's all for now...

DLu

may i add:

Bach and Scarlatti: Wanda Landowska

[ehpianist]

Arrau for  Beethoven

[tocca]

Bach: Gould
Beethoven: Brendel
Chopin: Rubenstein
Mozart: Leygraf (I was at a magical concert with him when i was young that altered my view on Mozart completely!)


Then there's lots of other pianists i like, but maybe not associate with a composer in the same way as the above.

[Alfonso Van Worden]

Hello, I´m a new member of this forum, I´ve been reading all the replies, and it has been very interesting, now I ´m looking forward to listen several recordings! And I have to say that I completely agree with ANDA, it´s like I would read my own reply, and maybe I would add :

For Chopin Op.25 #6:  Josef Levine
Any kind of  piano transcriptions: Cyprien Katsaris

(I don´t know if he is known in USA, but in Mexico there are several recordings)

[elongar]

Rachmaninov and Scriabin: Bernd Glemser (young German pianist - having heard the music, I have to say that his music has to be appreciated).

[ralessi]

Chopin: Im gonna have to go with Rubenstein and Zimerman
Bach: Gould
Liszt: Czifra NOT ASHKENAZY  and Arrau indeed plays the S*** out of Liszt, who i have not heard anyone mention yet?! unless i misread!
Ginastera: Delgado
Rachmaninoff: Horowitz in first (who was told by Rach himself that he (hor) played his music better than he did himself) then Horacio Gutierrez who also, has not been mentioned!
Scriabin: I am again going to say Horowitz and John Ogden (who also plays the hell out of THe Busoni concerto and his Variations on the chopin C minor prelude, Rach 2nd sonata, and some Alkan) who i AGAIN! have not heard mentioned.
Beethoven: Richard Goode then Brendel


 

[LVB op.57]

Scriabin-Horowitz
Chopin-Yundi Li, Horowitz
Beethoven-Fleisher (concerti)
                -Schnabel (sonatas)
Bach- Chen Pi-hsien (Goldberg)
Mozart- Emanuel Ax (chamber music)

[Pianoquake]

Brendel is good, but it's ashame that Philips pushed back other artists in order to promote him.   Anyway:

Beethoven: Gilels for whatever he recorded; Fleisher for concertos
Mozart: Gieseking, Haskil, Annie Fischer, Curzon
Bach: Angela Hewitt, Tureck
Chopin: Rubinstein; Horowitz; Dinu; Moravec; Martha; Perahia; Joao Pires
Schubert: Lupu, Richter, Curzon
Brahms: Gilels for concertos; Lupu for solo
Rachmaninov: Horowitz, Martha; Janis; Kocsis
Debussy: Gilels;
Schumann: Haskil, Perahia, Lupu, Horowitz, Martha, Rachmaninov (Carnaval)
Liszt: Horowitz, Bolet

[Beet9]

Bach - Gould
Mozart - Horowitz, Perahia
Beethoven - Gilels
Chopin - Lipatti
Liszt - Cziffra, Ashkenazy
Debussy - Michelangeli
Ravel - Pogorelich