Alessandro Ammara (for Scelsi, the preludes, a recent discovery for me.)
In Scriabin, Evelyne Dubourg's recordings on the Tudor label are excellent and a match for the better known pianists.
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Noriko Kawai, particularly for her recording of Dillon's The Book of Elements.
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Peter Hill
When I was living in Switzerland, and buying LPs, I bought several on the luna label featuring a Swiss pianist, Michael Studer, in standard repertoire (Chopin, Brahms, Schubert, etc) - his interpretations are outstanding, in my view, and deserve a wider audience. I don't know if they have ever made it to CD.
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Beatrice Rana for me too. She is utterly extraordinary, and very much not what you might expect from an Italian. She seems to just let the music flow through her in a profound way without any flash. I first listened to her cd of the Goldbergs, it is superb, and somehow lets you hear both the music and her joyous, thoughtful, caring interpretation. Then I went to her music festival in Lecce a couple of times - a concert or more a day for a week, very relaxed, with lots of young musicians, and have seen her elsewhere a few times. All her CDs are good, you can’t go wrong with the Tchaikowsky/Prokofiev. Have tickets to hear her play Liszt in October.I'll kick off with Beatrice Rana. Fabulous technically but also well considered, virtually anything she touches turns to gold.
That's quite a distinctive approach in late Scriabin there, I've just heard the 9th sonata and it seems to find a delicacy and lyricism which I haven't heard so clearly in this music before, and a lovely piano tone too. Thanks -- there are lots of ways to make sense of late Scriabin and this is an attractive one.
I'd like to hear her play Vers la Flamme!
I've never got into it, and I think it's mainly because of the sound quality of the recording. But I will try again.
He is my favourite modern piano player in Bach and probably in Schoenberg and the Diabelli Variations too. I listened to him play La Rousserole Effarvatte a couple of weeks ago and thought it was outstanding.
I can see Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Liszt on Qobuz -- so I shall check it out soon.
Where is that, Andy?Have tickets to hear her play Liszt in October
Where is that, Andy?
Yep, we moved to Venice about 11 years ago when we retired. It is a great place to live and be.Thanks Andy. Actually I have cousins in Padova and Taranto so I could probably do either or both. Do you live in actual Venice?