Thread: Musicians you do like!

In opposition to the thread entitled "musicians you don't like". What are the musicians you like - or even love? Name as many as you want, say what they specialise in. They can be very well known or completely unknown.

I'll start with Marijana Mijanovic. Lovely contralto. And that fury!

Richard Stoltzman: superhuman cross-genre clarinetist and champion of new music

All of these people I have met personally, and they are as kind and friendly to their admirers as they are amazing musicians:

Alisa Weilerstein - cello
Hilary Hahn - violin
Eric Ruske - horn
Alison Balsom - trumpet
Andre Watts - piano

Mezzo soprano Joyce Didonato-singers are musicians too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFHISqfwjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk7Zs-L2Nro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UmOxs563N0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcuqaelqwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDaXm17Tqs

Do not miss these last two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0c6rOeLbRg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czkae...eature=channel

Florence Jenkins for pure comic value-People loved her because she was so bad, she even sang at Carnegie Hall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4f77T-LoM

Dawn Upshaw
Anne-Sofie von Otter
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Kronos Quartet

Christian Lindberg
Martin Fröst
John Lill

Joyce DiDonato
Cecilia Bartoli
Philippe Jaroussky
Patricia Petibon
I fagiolini
Kirsten Flagstad

Wendy Carlos. I don't know her but she is quite a chatterbox on some of her CD's and web page. A charming human being. A fantastic composer as well.

I appreciate the very open-ended idea of "like." Taking it in a more subjective direction, it doesn't necessarily mean the greatest artists, nor always the artists who are behind your favorite renditions.

Piano- Josef Hofmann. We don't see his like any more.

Violin- (here's a surprise) Shmuel Ashkenasi. We'll never know what kind of solo career he could have put together had he inclined in that direction... but he instead went the way of being part of the team for the Vermeer Quartet.

Cello- Jacqueline du Pré, because I just can't help myself.

Leonid Kogan- not me, the Soviet violinist
Martha Argerich
Richter

Eric Ruske - horn
and in these modern Enrique is my favorite.

Joshua Bell - Because he's such a poser!

Khatia Buniatishvili - a gorgeous -- well, really gorgeous -- Georgian pianist

Originally Posted by jhar26

Damn, who would have thought.

Sviatoslav Richter, Glenn Gould, Emil Gilels, Artur Schnabel, Claudio Arrau, Charles Rosen, Trevor Pinnock, Gustav Leonhardt, Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Grumiaux, Henryk Szeryng, Hilary Hahn, Pierre Boulez, many others...