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Musicians you do like!

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#1 ·
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!
 
#61 ·
Although there are many famous pianists I detest (Argerich, Lang Lang, Brendel, etc), I enjoy these pianists quite a lot:

Sviatoslav Richter
John O'Conor
Emil Gilels
Evgeny Kissin
Dinu Lipatti
Vladdy Horowitz
Georges Cziffra
Myself ;)
 
#68 ·
Sviatoslav Richter
Bernard Haitink
Leonardo Bernstein
Nikolai Lugansky
Severin von Eckardstein
Janine Jansen
Daniel Barenboim
Valery Gergiev
Herbert von Karajan
Kiri te Kanawa
Emil Gilels
Dietrich Fischer Diskau

And I share myaskovsky2002's thoughts about Placido Domingo and Roberto Alagna.
 
#72 ·
There are many musicians who inspire me and I really like. I'll start with my most favourite musician - the great pianist Martha Argerich. For me she is like a Goddess. Emil Gilels, Arthur Rubinstein, Dinu Lipatti, Alfred Cortot, Claudio Abaddo, Gidon Kremer, Anna Netrebko, Yehudi Menuhin and many others ... They all are great and incredible!
 
#73 ·
There are many musicians who inspire me and I really like. I'll start with my most favourite musician - the great pianist Martha Argerich. For me she is like a Goddess. Emil Gilels, Arthur Rubinstein, Dinu Lipatti, Alfred Cortot, Claudio Abaddo, Gidon Kremer, Anna Netrebko, Yehudi Menuhin and many others ... They all are great and incredible!
I think I'm gonna like you. :tiphat: ;)
 
#75 ·
Odnoposoff suggests that the list would run to hundreds. Relating to all the musicians in the world, I must agree.

I tend to favour live music for my listening time, so I hear a great deal of music which is NOT by 'world' musicians, but rather by South Africans, often local to my city. I have favourites amongst these musicians to a great degree, often based on something other than their musical ability. They might be friends of mine, or have something in common with me other than music, and these 'familiarities' breed favouritism rather than contempt ... well usually.

The point of this little ramble is that this thread makes me realise just how parochial my understanding of music really is. Which leads to thoughts about what the musical world must have been like before the availability of recordings.
 
#76 · (Edited)
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.
 
#78 ·
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.
 
#83 ·
I don't play violin and i don't know much about violin playing but i must say that Maxim Venegrov is a beast!
 
#84 ·
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?
 
#87 · (Edited)
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
 
#85 ·
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.
 
#89 ·
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.
 
#90 ·
There are tons of musicians I love for their work. But there are also many for whom I admire and like because they seem kind, generous, and all around good people. And I’m sure there are many beyond the few I’m listing, but these are the ones who have struck me… Christoph von Dohnànyi, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Marin Alsop, Paul Lewis, Renée Fleming, David Zinman, Joshua Bell, and so many more.
 
#91 ·
Rubenstein, Horowitz, Casals, Segovia, Heifitz, Yamandu Costa, Pavel Steidl, early Miles Davis, Early Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Rostropovich, Wilhelm Kempff, Gene Ammons, Chet Baker, Ricardo Gallen, Roland Dyens, Fabio Zanon, Lee Morgan, Shirley Horn, Joey D'Francesco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Kenny Burrell . . . . that's just a few.
Viajero
 
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