Thread: Musicians you do like!

Itzhak Perlman!!! The best! And David Oistrakh (all violin). Vengerov is good too, and Spivakov.

The best cellist I think was Jacqueline du Pre.

There is a violist I really like, but the problem is I don't know his name.

^his name is Yuri Bashmet

I like Bernstein, He is a great conductor also he is a great teacher. I have watched lots of videos were he speaks about music.
He has that great skill to explain "Hard" stuff so well that it becomes easier to understand.
Of course i don't agree with everything he says, but i always enjoy listening him when he talks about music.

A few more:

220px-Count_Basie_in_Rhythm_and_Blues_Revue.jpg Count Basie

marian-anderson.jpg Marian Anderson

NikkiYanofsky.jpg Nikki Yanofsky

Yang_Home1.jpg Xuefei Yang

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

^his name is Yuri Bashmet

Aagrh, you can read minds! That was who I was thinking of!

Originally Posted by MaestroViolinist

Aagrh, you can read minds! That was who I was thinking of!

Told you so!

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

Told you so!

Wish I read minds... Then again, maybe I don't want to know what goes on in your head!

I don't play violin and i don't know much about violin playing but i must say that Maxim Venegrov is a beast!

Having gone through the entire list of favorites, I am somewhat distressed that the incredible pianist Valentina Lisitsa was not mentioned. There are a number of astonishing youtube presentations but the ones that stand out are Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 and another Liszt blockbuster, "Totentanz". Despite her grueling schedule, Ms Lisitsa responded to an e-mail I sent. She is a very
exceptional person. Has anyone else out there seen/heard her?

I've a lot of personal favourites among musicians. My very very top are:
Conductors: Giulini, Karajan, Boulez, Klemperer, Jochum
Performers: Aimard, Zimerman, Arrau, the Alban Berg quartet, Rostropovich, Lipatti, Richter,
Singers: Sutherland, Tebaldi, Horne, Mingardo, Lauri Volpi, Taddei, Talvela, Nilsson, Fischer-Dieskau, Vickers.
Giulini, Lipatti and Tebaldi all my all time favourite artists.

DANIELLE BELEN!

Just look at this video:

And this one:

Originally Posted by halftone

Having gone through the entire list of favorites, I am somewhat distressed that the incredible pianist Valentina Lisitsa was not mentioned. Has anyone else out there seen/heard her?

I've seen a lot of her stuff. She's very good with some pieces (Her Liszt Ave Maria is a personal favorite) but I'm still not fully sold. My main issue with her is that I feel like she sometimes has difficulty getting depth out of a piece in satisfying way. For example if you put her Rachmaninoff prelude 5 up against Ritchers or Gilels it crumbles pretty quickly.. I know these are giants but whatever, that's my standard of "incredible" :P

Valentina is terrible imo. But if i want to watch a piece being played incredibly fast i check her out.

I'm not familiar enough with a variety of musicians to make very many judgments, but I know I've never been disappointed by a Marc-Andre Hamelin purchase. I'm aware that he has his share of critics out there on the internet, but I'm certainly not one of them.