Pianist you'd most like to hear live

[Bonehelm]

Lang Lang. In March, he's teaming up with the VSO to do Beethoven 1. I'm so gonna go, even though it costs me 40 bucks and for a student that quite a bit.

[Pempslider]

I can't really decide, so I'll have to go with a real-world answer: Nelly Akopian-Tamarina next month at Wigmore Hall.

I am intrigued by this recital. She performs very infrequently, or so it seems, but I imagine any student of Alexander Goldenweiser must be worth hearing at least once. There can't be many that are even alive.

[Mark]

Lang Lang. In March, he's teaming up with the VSO to do Beethoven 1. I'm so gonna go, even though it costs me 40 bucks and for a student that quite a bit.

Lang Lang should be paying you ...

[Bonehelm]

Lang Lang should be paying you ...

He'll pay not in money, but orgasmic facial expressions.

[springrite]

He'll pay not in money, but orgasmic facial expressions.

Keep your eyes closed and ears open, Lang Lang can be quite good on occassions, as I found out a few years ago when I surprisingly enjoyed one of his recitals in Beijing.

[sidoze]

I can't really decide, so I'll have to go with a real-world answer: Nelly Akopian-Tamarina next month at Wigmore Hall.

I am intrigued by this recital. She performs very infrequently, or so it seems, but I imagine any student of Alexander Goldenweiser must be worth hearing at least once. There can't be many that are even alive.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the choice of music is one I would never pay to hear.

I would like to hear Donwyn's pianist but otherwise I've heard everything I want. Only thing left is to hear Pogorelich playing Gaspard.

[sidoze]

Forget that, I want to hear Kemal Gekic

[Guarnerius]

Zimerman plays Chopin. I had wonderful oppurtunity hearing him plays live. Also Aimard, Argerich and Pollini.

Indeed! Guess that Zimerman has got the widest dynamical scale ever heard. Just cannot believe Your ears what U R hearing in Live concert!:o No wonder, that Berliner Morgenpost says "There are many brilliant pianists, but only one Krystian Zimerman"

[Bogey]

Uchida.  0:)

[sidoze]

Guess that Zimerman has got the widest dynamical scale ever heard.

not even close

[Guarnerius]

I like Zimerman and Sokolov... but who I would also like to C and hear on stage live, he is Andrei Gavrilov. Such a madman on record...and surely live, too

[orbital]

Andrei Gavrilov. Such a madman on record...and surely live, too

Him would be one of my top picks too, the madder the better actually   (particularly if he's playing a familiar program)

[longears]

I don't care about the "rules."  As long as I'm fantasizing, I'd most like to hear Beethoven.

[Que]

                     Ivan Moravec

Q

[Bogey]

I don't care about the "rules."  As long as I'm fantasizing, I'd most like to hear Beethoven.

Save me a seat David. 

[longears]

You got it, Bill!

[Bogey]

                     Ivan Moravec

Q

Saw him last March Q.  He performed Mozart's PC No. 14 and Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra.  Had awesome seats facing him and was up just enough to be able to see partially into the piano.  Do try to catch him in concert if you can.

[Harry]

Maria Lettberg. Click on picture to enlarge....

[Novi]

Uchida.  0:)

Bogey, I've a good story about Uchida.

At a Beethoven recital, she was in the middle of the third movement of the op. 101 when all the lights in the concert hall went out. She kept on playing for a little while; it was the trippiest thing to listen in complete darkness like that (no comments about Uchida visuals please). Then she stopped and said, I cannot play the fugue in the dark.

She wasn't happy about the situation at all - you could see her berating whoever was offstage on her way out.

[George]

                     Ivan Moravec

Q

I think we have winner. 

Program:

Beethoven Pathetique
Debussy Images

second half:

8 Chopin Nocturnes

Encore:

Beethoven Op. 90