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Who are the Greatest 20th - 21st century’s pianists ?

I realized there are so many great top level pianists all over the world and I still need much more time to see all the greatest pianists. And I found that once the highest levels of piano playing are reached, at that point who you think is the best or is your favorite all depends on one’s taste and how the pianist performance and personality touches you. Personally , I love mixture of a dynamic performer, wild and also with sensitivity plus elegance with masterful technique and emotion and musicality. I’m surprised that it’s so different impression with same music depending on who is playing it , and also depending on the pianist’s mood at the time of the performance. So far, my favorite pianists of the 20th to 21st century are below, ( no particular order ) Here is the list : * Agustin Anievas (USA) * Yuki o Yokoyama ( Japan ) * Samson Francois (France)  * Vladimir Horowitz (Russia) * Yundi Li ( China ) * John Browning ( USA)  * Sandor Falvay ( Hungary )...

Amazing !! La Campanella by Franz Liszt performed by Yundi Li

My passion and interest went to pianists world now, especially Franz Liszt ! He is magic, the more I know about him the more I’m deep into him. It’s never happened such a thing in my life almost like crush on someone who is not even a contemporary person and in fact, I'm losing all the other interests. I’ve seen many legendary people's photos and have read about them but I was always seeing them as the historical people, never thought about it. Besides his genius talent, a part of it may also be that no one looked like Liszt . . Actually for music, Liszt, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Saint Seans are all tie breakers for me. If we consider for the greatest pianists who were also great composers, Liszt and Chopin are tie breaker for me. and it seems so d ifficult to have both fantastic talent as a pianist and performer and also as a composer. That's what makes Liszt and Chopin so special to me. However, Saint Saens and Tchaikovsky were both fantast...

Camille Saint-Saens - Genius French composer of the Romantic Era - Part 1

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1835 – 1921) Calimille Saint-Saens is my favorite French composer of The Romantic Era. However my discovery about him was late, I discovered about him since I started watching figure skating. Even though I had heard his famous music “ The Swan “ before, I didn’t know Saint Saens was the composer of this beautiful music. I had thought this music was by Tchaikovsky , and that it was a part of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet music “ Swan Lake “. I don’t know why I got such an idea and had been believing that without checking who is the composer of “ The Swan “. Maybe I was making my own original story in my mind about “The Swan“. The first time I discovered about Saint-Saens was since I watched Johnny Weir ’s 2004 - 2005 short program performance “ Rondo Capriccioso “ , this program is one of my top favorites of his performances ( 2004 TEB France) and I really loved the music, so I finally checked the composer of the mu...

Lisztomania - Franz Liszt’s killer charm

Recently I’m very interested in Franz Liszt ’s life, his music and his musical talent and while reading about his life story, I found that his popularity was even much more than I had imagined ! His killer charm made so many ladies crazy, to the point that they created a word for it, it was called “ Lisztomania “ which had never happened before at such an intensity. In fact, it was so intense, that people thought it was some kind of disease, a “ fever “, and they had people who suffered from this “fever “ go to the doctor to see what it was and how to “cure “ it. And the funny thing is they couldn’t figure out why this “ fever “ was only caused by one person - Franz Liszt . What is Lisztomania ? Here is the link for the explanation about Lisztomania , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania_(phenomenon) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Franz_Liszt “ Lisztomania or Liszt fever is a term used to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward Franz Liszt during his perfor...

My Time traveling would be …

http://gallery.xemanhdep.com/ Since my childhood, I sometimes imagined what it would be like if there was a time machine … Future - I imagined to go traveling to future when I was a school girl, struggling with studies before examinations. Wanted to know the result of examinations. But that’s it, also who will I marry with ?? On the other hand, scared to go to future to see my life. At that time I didn’t know that people’s thoughts, emotions create our future, and I was completely thinking like life is a destiny, all passive. But since I knew life is about how we create it, I don’t need to think about time machines to see my future anymore. Past - Whenever I read about biographies of interesting people in history, I imagine to go to the past. If there was a time machine or a magic door and I could time travel easily, First, 1. I would go to see me when I was born Especially, from the time I was born to 3 or 4 years old, the times when I have almos...

My favorite composers of the 19th century - Liszt, Chopin, Saint Saens, Tchaikovsky, Massenet

5 Music Virtuosos of the 19th century Franz Liszt ( 1811 - 1886) Frederic Chopin ( 1810 - 1849) Pyotr Tchaikovsky ( 1840-1893) Camille Saint- Saens, ( 1835 - 1921) Jules Massenet ( 1842 - 1912 ) Since we found this amazing site, http://tchaikovsky-research.net/ which has so many information about not only, Pyotr Tchaikovsky ,  but many other people who were around him in that generation, I’ve been even more into the 19th century ’s, my favorite composers. Tchaikovsky seems like really a perfectionist, analyzing music and many other things and people,  and there are thousands of his private letters which he wrote to a wealthy widow named Nadezdha von Meck who admired him and his music so much. He might not have imagined that his private letters to her would one day be open to public viewing in the future. I feel like becoming a gossip woman when I started reading them,  but it ’s so interesting to know, as he is one of ...