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In Reply to: RE: Luxemburg's foremost present-day pianist records Rameau and Ligeti posted by Chris from Lafayette on December 12, 2014 at 15:18:50
Ah, Chris. You entice us with that heading, only to discover you are referring to a sexy young babe whose playing you dislike. That doesn't make me eager to listen to her when I can just look at her. When you mentioned another babe pianist butchered the hobbyhorse movement from Kinderszenen in an earlier thread, boy, were you ever right about that. So ime a thumbs down from you is the kiss of death for these babes. Edit: I listened to Cathy and see what you mean about the excess rubato in some pieces.As for Muller, here's another young pianist using an ultra bright, percussive-sounding piano. Or maybe that's just how it's recorded. But he is definitely very good, even by Luxembourg standards.
Edits: 12/13/14Follow Ups:
I was just guessing that Cathy is perhaps the best known at the current time. BTW, I was not aware of Jean Muller before your post, and I just listened to his Liszt-Horowitz Mephisto Waltz on YouTube HD and found it pretty good, although I see what you mean about the slightly shallow and dry sounding piano. Based on this tiny amount of exposure, I'm not sure if I'd really prefer his playing to Cathy's overall - maybe though! ;-)Hey - and that wasn't just "another babe pianist" who butchered part of Kinderszenen, it was Lise de la Salle!
EDIT: Stupidly, I neglected my opportunity to post another pic of Lise, and I just want to correct that omission RIGHT NOW:
Jeez - I wish she played better!
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And btw, I'm a civil lawyer, not a criminal one, so everyone is innocent to me. The irony is, though Jean Muller is obviously not a babe in a tight miniskirt, I can't help but suspect that his piano sound, and certain other aspects of some of his playing (good as it is imo), as well as at least one of his album covers, are a bit gimmicky, as are some aspects of the playing of Cathy Krier and Lise de la Salle, never mind their photos.
It's as if their advisers have told them they need to use these gimmicks to distinguish themselves from the crowd of good pianists. But gimmicks have a limited shelf life, for boys as well as girls -- remember [Nigel] Kennedy's punk act? Uck.
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