Who here is a fan of hers? My girlfriend put me onto her incredible playing.
She plays in an extremely idiosyncratic interpretive style. To paraphrase Richter, her Schubert B flat major sonata was about as far from the actual score as you can get, but she still plays it beautifully:
I think she sounds great in Mozart:
There's a famous, likely legendary story about Yudina, Stalin, and this Mozart concerto:
I'll spare you the details but they are to be found. I believe they even made a movie about it called the Death of Stalin.
Her Brahms is great too:
And her Mussorgsky:
Her music on the other hand is some of the most poorly recorded I've ever heard, and this is coming from a big fan of Schnabel's Beethoven sonata cycle. However, I think she has been sadly neglected and forgotten on account of this, and I have immense respect for her and her music. Feel free to share favorite recordings of hers, or stories, or whatever the case may be.
Think this is the fourth thread I've made about Russian pianists in as many weeks; I'm definitely obsessed.
She plays in an extremely idiosyncratic interpretive style. To paraphrase Richter, her Schubert B flat major sonata was about as far from the actual score as you can get, but she still plays it beautifully:
I think she sounds great in Mozart:
There's a famous, likely legendary story about Yudina, Stalin, and this Mozart concerto:
I'll spare you the details but they are to be found. I believe they even made a movie about it called the Death of Stalin.
Her Brahms is great too:
And her Mussorgsky:
Her music on the other hand is some of the most poorly recorded I've ever heard, and this is coming from a big fan of Schnabel's Beethoven sonata cycle. However, I think she has been sadly neglected and forgotten on account of this, and I have immense respect for her and her music. Feel free to share favorite recordings of hers, or stories, or whatever the case may be.
Think this is the fourth thread I've made about Russian pianists in as many weeks; I'm definitely obsessed.