Performers You'd Like to Explore in 2020

[Florestan]

Prompted by the current discussion in the Ashkenazy thread, I realized that it'd be a better idea (for me, at least) to explore performers rather than composers. Ashkenazy is as good a start as any, so in the next few weeks I'll be listening/relistening to his Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin, Beethoven, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius etc.

Other boxsets I have but never listened to in their entirety: Kempff, Cziffra, Lipatti, Haskil, Lupu, Arrau, Katchen, Bolet, Istomin, Beaux Arts Trio, Rostropovich, du Pre, Pires, Uchida, Brendel, Zacharias, Quartetto Italiano, Perahia, Prey, Wunderlich etc etc etc. I should better spend this year with them. Fingers crossed.

How 'bout you? Any specific performers you'd like to delve more into this year?

[Mirror Image]

I don't really explore performers too often. My explorations are composer-centric. I do own some box sets dedicated to this or that conductor or soloist, but this is usually because there are recordings of composers within these box sets that I enjoy in which the original recording is difficult to track down, so, if the box set in question is cheap, I'll end up buying it. Does this make any sense? As I was typing this post out, I had an idea but it was difficult for me to put into words.

[vandermolen]

I don't really explore performers too often. My explorations are composer-centric. I do own some box sets dedicated to this or that conductor or soloist, but this is usually because there are recordings of composers within these box sets that I enjoy in which the original recording is difficult to track down, so, if the box set in question is cheap, I'll end up buying it. Does this make any sense? As I was typing this post out, I had an idea but it was difficult for me to put into words.

This is largely my situation as well. I think that I would ,however, like to investigate more performances by the cellist Daniel Shafran, having been so impressed by his performance of Kabalevsky's Second Cello Concerto.

[some guy]

Improvisers.

That way you get people who perform, but it's them doing the making as well.

[vers la flamme]

Ashkenazy for me as well in light of his recent retirement. A most prolific performer, but I'm not familiar with the majority of his repertoire.