Keyboardists that never disappoint.....

[dtwilbanks]

[Drasko]

Are there any performers on your shelf that have never missed to this point my friend?

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josef Lhevinne, Marcelle Meyer, Pierre Hantai but former two probably due to pretty limited amount of what is recorded and latter two because I heard them only in one or two discs where they were excellent (Scarlatti, Rameau).

[Todd]

No one.

[George]

No one.

[dtwilbanks]

No one.

That is the correct answer.

[Bunny]

This is really a question of expectations.  No one can be perfect all the time.  I don't expect perfection 100% of the time, so most recording musicians, including keyboardists, don't disappoint me.  The only thing I find disappointing is when someone with talent squanders it.  Thankfully that's very, very, rare.

[Maciek]

Apart from some of those already mentioned, Krystian Zimerman is a pianist who has never disappointed me so far. In harpsichordists: Elzbieta Chojnacka. In violinists... oh, sorry, just noticed the thread title...

Cheers,
Maciek

[BachQ]

Apart from some of those already mentioned, Krystian Zimerman is a pianist who has never disappointed me so far.

I would have to agree!

[orbital]

Apart from some of those already mentioned, Krystian Zimerman is a pianist who has never disappointed me so far.
Cheers,
Maciek

Perhaps not now, but you did not pay the $800 for his Brahms CD 

[Guido]

John Browning. Peter Donohoe.

[Bunny]

Perhaps not now, but you did not pay the $800 for his Brahms CD 

$800?!!!  

I wouldn't pay $800 for any cd, ever.

[Don]

$800?!!!  

I wouldn't pay $800 for any cd, ever.

Might you pay $80?

[orbital]

$800?!!!  

I wouldn't pay $800 for any cd, ever.

check this:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,770.0.html

me neither. Well, unless it was Chopin himself playing 

[Bunny]

Might you pay $80?

Is it gold or silver?  Who knows?  I tend to doubt that I would want a single cd for even $80.  There is usually a good alternative around at a reasonable price.  and, I've discovered that the library often has things such as the Hogwood Haydn Creation, which can then be copied with little fuss and no muss.

[Maciek]

Well, I think that was 2 CDs.

If that changes anything, lol.

[BachQ]

Joyce Hatto
Lang Lang

[aquablob]

Joyce Hatto
Lang Lang

[Don]

Although I had Hantai on my list, Bunny pointed out to me that I was critical of his WTC I recording, a fact I had forgotten when I made the list.  So Hantai has to go.

[Bunny]

Well, I think that was 2 CDs.

If that changes anything, lol.

Well I was tempted by the Complete Bach 2000 set at a bit less than $800, but I was outbid there too.

[Bunny]

Although I had Hantai on my list, Bunny pointed out to me that I was critical of his WTC I recording, a fact I had forgotten when I made the list.  So Hantai has to go.

That's the problem with a thread like this. Expectations of perfection can never be met, so Pierre who is a magnificent harpsichordist gets eliminated.

The only keyboardist (pianist - not typist) I ever heard of who was always perfect was Joyce Hatto.