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In Reply to: RE: OK, So Who Are the Most OVER-rated Pianists? posted by John Marks on November 24, 2014 at 16:24:41
I can provide specific recordings that are brilliant or very good.
Pletnev: Scarlatti and Scriabin recordings. Only completely successful Mozart 9th concerto I have heard.
Argerich: brilliant Beethoven cello sonatas with Mischa Maisky. This recording by itself is good enough to make a career. She's made dozens if very good to great recordings. I heard her do the Chopin 1st concerto live once and it stands out as one of the best live performances I've had the chance to hear.
Cherkassky: what about that great set of Chopin Etudes?
Pollini: agree he's uneven but what about his Schumann fantasy? He recorded my favorite Brahms 2nd concerto with Abbado. Also did a great set of Chopin Etudes, like Cherkassky.
I am mixed about Brendel but I can name a handful of downright terrific recordings of his, too.
These lists of the overrated are worthless. In fact, they may be worse than worthless.
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I agree with you that most of the pianists listed here as overrated have made some first-rate recordings or given great performances. But each of us probably can name some musicians that have never floated our boat. Rudoilph Buchbinder and Helene Grimaud are two that have never enthralled me on recordings and who gave third-rate live performances here in Cleveland last season. But I'm sure others think these two are superlative musicians.
Pollini is someone I have never liked on recordings, but I did here him do a wonderful Brahms 2 with Dohnanyi a long time ago, and just the other day I heard a recording of a broadcast of Pollini/Abbado/Boston in the Schumann concerto that was really involving (to me).
. . . the Wolf Lady's greatest recording was made when she was 15 (the Rachmaninoff solo works on Denon).
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