As with violinists I have heard live, I thought it interesting to list the pianists I have heard perform (modulo the vagaries of memory):
- Caroline Almonte – Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in Eb K365 (MSO, Melbourne 2009)
- Louis-Victor Bak – (London 2023, recitals at St Mary-Le-Strand and at Steinway Hall)
- Ksenia Bashmet – Bach’s D Minor Keyboard Concerto (BWV 1052) (Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble, London 2011)
- Alessio Bax (RLPO, Liverpool. Grieg PC with Southbank Sinfonia, London, March 2024)
- Alasdair Beatson – Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings in D Minor (London 2011)
- Richard Rodney Bennett (Canberra 1976, solo recital of show tunes and jazz standards)
- Mikhail Bouzine, in a happening at Steinway Hall, London, 13 March 2024, on the theme of love.
- Giulia Contaldo – Respighi, Wagner/Liszt and Debussy (recital at Famington Farm, 28 January 2024)
- Imogen Cooper – Bach and Schubert (recital at Famington Farm, 28 January 2024)
- Emmanuel Despax – Bach/Busoni’s Chaconne and Chopin’s 24 Preludes (solo recital at St John’s Church Waterloo, London, 26 November 2023)
- Aleksandr Doronin – Ligeti’s Etudes #10 (Der Zauberlehrling) and #13 (L’escalier du diable) (London 2023, Drake Calleja Trust Scholars Concert, 4 November 2023)
- François Dumont (Brussels 2018)
- Kathryn Eves – Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto (Cheshire Sinfonia, Manchester 2008)
- Jonathan Ferrucci playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations at King’s Place, London, 11 March 2024.
- Juan Perez Floristan – in a solo recital at Wigmore Hall, London, 11 April 2024.
- Nelson Freire – Mozart’s Piano Concerto #20 in D minor and Villa Lobos’ Momoprecoce, Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (Boston Symphony Orchestra under Marcelo Lehninger at Tanglewood, 2012)
- Alexander Gadjiev – Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 Opus 21 in F minor (Orchestre Appassionato under Mathieu Herzog, Paris, 2022)
- Filippo Gorini – Bach’s The Art of Fugue (Wigmore Hall, London, 23 July 2023)
- Angela Hewitt – The 48: A truly awesome feat of memory and physical performance, with superb touch and an integrity of interpretation. I don’t think rubato and the North German Baroque belong together but, so not an interpretation to my taste. (Manchester)
- Rolf Hind (Birmingham, Liverpool, London 2013). Hind’s masterful performance of John Coolidge Adams’ sublime Phrygian Gates in Liverpool was entrancing and unforgettable, and helped change my mind about minimalism. I heard him play this again in London in 2013 – again sublime.
- Stephen Hough (RLPO Liverpool; Manchester)
- Lucas Jussen and Arthur Jussen – Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Wigmore Hall, London, 2023; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 2023)
- Elisabeth Klein (1911-2003) – selection of Ligeti’s Etudes (Music Department, University of Liverpool, November 2002). I heard Ms Klein, a student of Bela Bartok, in a recital at the age of 91, playing several of Ligeti’s etudes to an audience of about ten people. She became a public performer of modern piano music only in her sixth decade.
- Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, 4-hands 1-piano recital, Wigmore Hall, London, 14 March 2024.
- Pekka Kuusisto (Britten Sinfonia, London, 2012, playing piano part of Stravinsky’s Suites 1 & 2 for Small Orchestra)
- Ariel Lanyi in a recital at the Wigmore Hall, London, 27 December 2023.
- John Lill (RLPO, Liverpool)
- Jan Lisiecki – a solo recital of Preludes, including Chopin’s Op 28 (West Road Concert Hall, Department of Music, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, on 26 February 2024)
- Yvonne Loriod – Messiaen’s From the Canyon to the Stars (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, 1988).
- Joanna MacGregor – Bach’s D Minor Concerto BWV 1052 (Manchester)
- Stephen McIntyre – Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in Eb K365 (MSO, Melbourne 2009)
- Brad Mehldau (Manchester)
- Kasparas Mikužis (London 2023, accompanist in Drake Calleja Trust Scholars Concert, 4 November 2023. Sittingbourne, recital, 11 November 2023, recitals in Faversham, London and Famington Farm 2024, Rachmaninov PC2 London 9 February 2024)
- Olli Mustonen – Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto #1 (BBC SO, with Sergei Nakariakov, London 2013)
- Matan Porat in a recital programme of mostly Bach transcriptions at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London, Friday February 2024.
- Roberto Prosseda – UK premiere of Mendelssohn’s 3rd Piano Concerto in E minor (ca. 1840-42, unpublished, completed by Marcello Bufalini) (RLPO, Liverpool)
- Lauma Skride – Mozart and Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas (London 2011)
- Gabriele Sutkute – in a solo recital at St-Mary-Le-Strand, London, 23 November 2023.
- Cedric Tiberghien (RLPO, Liverpool; recitals, London; Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, with Orchestre National de France under Aziz Shokhakimov, Paris 2022)
- Simon Trpceski (RLPO, Liverpool).
- Samson Tsoy and Pavel Kolesnikov, 4-hands 1-piano recital, Wigmore Hall, London, 14 March 2024.
0 Responses to “Pianists”