Hot New Pianists

[dtwilbanks]

Based on a Lebrecht blog entry, I bought Ingrid Fliter's two available recordings and am really enjoying them (She's the new Schnabel, he says; I don't know about such things; I only know what I like). Who are your favorite new pianists?—let's say only the ones who started their recording careers this century.

[Mark]

Here's my 'One-to-Watch': Yevgeny Sudbin.

[dtwilbanks]

Here's my 'One-to-Watch': Yevgeny Sudbin.

Thanks, Mark. I've seen his name tossed about lately. I'll have to check him out.

[sidoze]

hot new pianist -- right here (click at your own risk) http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f382/cmarchione/girl_piano.jpg

[dtwilbanks]

hot new pianist -- right here (click at your own risk) http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f382/cmarchione/girl_piano.jpg

I'll click it when I get home.  Thanks for the warning.

[Mark]

hot new pianist -- right here (click at your own risk) http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f382/cmarchione/girl_piano.jpg

I'm taking up the piano.


(NB: Please read the above carefully. )

[bhodges]

My choice is Paavali Jumppanen (bio here), although I've not yet heard him live.  His recording of the three Boulez piano sonatas, below, is a pretty amazing piece of work.

--Bruce

[BorisG]

I like what Harmonia Mundi, Emi, Bis, Naxos, and others, have done for up and coming pianists. Anderszewski, Melnikov, Sudbin, Scherbakov, Dechorgnat, Trpceski, Lewis, Boffard, Kupiec, etc. Hopefully, that spirit continues.

Attending unknowns recitals and browsing artist agency websites (CA, IMG, etc.) are good ways to spot new talent.

[Mark]

... Scherbakov ...

Seen this guy play live at the Wigmore Hall. Astonishing technique and a breathtakingly good performer.

[Brian]

Yevgeny Sudbin tops my list too.
Another name worth mentioning is the young Uzbek Eldar Nebolsin, who just released a Rachmaninov album that is very sensitively done indeed.

I watched a fellow in his 20s named Kirill Gerstein (spelling?) at the Houston Symphony last weekend, and he did an excellent job, though the program (Rachmaninov and Liszt) offered little room to express lyrical talent.

Klara Wurtz of Brilliant may qualify, if we are calling Anderszewski and Scherbakov "new" talents...

[BorisG]

Yevgeny Sudbin tops my list too.
Another name worth mentioning is the young Uzbek Eldar Nebolsin, who just released a Rachmaninov album that is very sensitively done indeed.

I watched a fellow in his 20s named Kirill Gerstein (spelling?) at the Houston Symphony last weekend, and he did an excellent job, though the program (Rachmaninov and Liszt) offered little room to express lyrical talent.

Klara Wurtz of Brilliant may qualify, if we are calling Anderszewski and Scherbakov "new" talents...

Even in the golden age of recording, "newness" could last a long while.

[Holden]

Mark - if you enjoyed Sudbin's Scarlatti like I did when I first got it (eralier this year) then check out this guy. He's 'relatively new' but he's exceptionally good.


This Scarlatti recital is even better than Sudbin's IMO

And there's also this - a hot new pianist in more ways than one

[bhodges]

Holden, totally agree with Sergei Babayan.  I haven't heard the Scarlatti CD yet (several friends who have rave about it), but I can vouch for the excellence of this one, with Ligeti, Messiaen, Respighi, and (for me the real discovery) Carl Vine's Piano Sonata (1990).



--Bruce

[Mark]

Holden, de la Salle is on my radar but not my shelves (or my ... let's leave it ), while Sudbin is brand new to me this month via the fairly recent-ish Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto. I'll be checking out his Rachmaninov and Scarlatti next.

[m_gigena]

What about Alexander Kobrin? He won the 2005 Van Cliburn international piano competition, and he gave an explosive lecture on Prokofiev's first concerto at the last Proms (Videos of him and Trpceski are available at the Broadcast Corner)

[sidoze]

Babayan is hardly new though. He's not exactly young either. I think we're crossing the line from new/young pianists to relatively unknown ones (who are new to most of us anyway). In that category you might as well include Kemal Gekic. Then again there's really no category for him -- you could only compare him to Liszt really.

For young I'd take Momo Kodama (not to be confused with her better known sister). She's recorded one of the best Messiaen 20 Regards around and a smashing Chopin disc with a top scherzo 3

[sidoze]

What about Alexander Kobrin?

I've heard his Chopin Preludes CD from HMV JP. He played in an understated way -- somewhat refreshing but ultimately not fully engaging. Best moment was the 16th preludue which sounded drunk. I thought it was quite an achievement

[Drasko]

While we are at Chopin Preludes has the Blechacz been released yet?

Any opinions on Eckardstein? He seems to have Glazunov concerto recently released.

[m_gigena]

Argentinian Horacio Lavandera. He won the International Piano Competition Umberto Micheli at the age of sixteen, (held at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire and in Teatro della Scala in Milan), and he was also awarded a Special Prize of the Filarmonica della Scala.

I'm watching him today in a solo recital.

Here he plays the cadenza of Beethoven's fourth.

He studied here with Martha Freigido and Maestro Antonio de Raco (I'm sure the first one studied with Vincenzo Scaramuzza, who had taught Argerich and Gelber).

[m_gigena]

While we are at Chopin Preludes has the Blechacz been released yet?

Stage6 has three videos of this guy (unknown to me, but in my list of music-to-download):
his performance at the second stage and the final stage of the 15th Chopin Piano Competition 2005, and one recital in Tokyo.

http://stage6.divx.com/videos/search:BLECHACZ