What are you listening to now?
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@mark, The woman is a sorceress on the piano. Certainly my favourite living pianist. Quite likely the greatest pianist of the second half of the 20th century to present. Only Grigory Sokolov comes close in pianistic genius. I know it’s subjective but the young ones like Yuja Wang and Khatia Buniatishvili certainly have the technical chops but still have some work to do on the musicality thus not quite there to sit among pantheon of greats dating back to Liszt and Alkan. Argerich and Sokolov reached those dizzying heights some years ago and continue to leave audiences and listeners in awe.
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@renauda I agree 100%!
My former teacher studied along side of Martha in Italy under Michelangeli. He considered Martha a good friend and spent quite a bit of time with her and her family. That fact still gives me chills when I think about it. That I was so fortunate to have studied with him.
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Rick Beato interviewed this delightful young lady recently. Makes me want to learn bass guitar.
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Yunchan Lim The Goldberg Variations Live at Carnegie Hall. I ordered this not realizing that it would come in what is essentially a hardcover 46 page book full of wonderful photos, quotes, and multilingual write-ups about this young pianist.
It's a double LP that is expertly mastered with a very good, silent, dark background free of surface noise. Meticulously produced. A little static on rare occasions, but that is easily rectified and is mostly due to the dry nature of this season.
I must say that he does an excellent performance of the Goldberg Variations.
I have heard just about every recording ever made of the Goldberg Variations and this one definitely stands out as one of the best I have heard.
