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In Reply to: RE: OK, So Who Are the Most OVER-rated Pianists? posted by Analog Scott on November 25, 2014 at 12:56:45
So Thibaudet plays Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, the Chopin etudes, and the more difficult works of Liszt? If he does, it's news to me. Great music that eludes many...
To my mind, he's a creation of Decca records. Not particularly interesting and his playing is monochromoatic. I'd take Tharaud any day.
No accounting for taste, as usual:)
Harry
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A very fine pianist, and one of the few current ones I've heard who is equally convincing in contemporary works and the standards.
if it's news to you you didn't really check.
I just saw him play this a couple weeks ago. And he played it brilliantly
http://www.philharmonicsociety.org/Events/?i=564
Having seen Thibaudet several times and Tharaud fairly recently in the same exact venue I would say Tharaud isn't half the musician as is Thibaudet. Especially if playing difficult repertoire is part of the criteria.
But that is subjective. what is not so subjective is the fact that Thibaudet actually does have an extremely broad repertoire and does play many of the most technically difficult pieces in classical music and does so with relative ease.
I would recommend this.
Turangalīla Symphonie
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Takashi Harada, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
I saw him do this piece with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil. It made a believer out of me. This is a monster of a piece.
I haven't checked since his playing never interested me in the past. AND I'd be happy to be disabused of my prejudices, so I'll check it out.
Thanks-
Harry Z
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