beethoven etc etc.... who would be the best to listen to on youtube?
2007-11-17 09:29:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Nicky Hopkins
2007-11-17 09:32:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I tend to feel that there is always something lacking when a pianist (usually classical) reproduces the sound from a piece of music. Although I have a degree of respect for the ability to do this, to me this is purely a technical exercise and I would get as similar degree of pleasure from watching a turner produce a nice table leg, or a dentist performing the perfect filling. The piano greats really have to be the top jazz players and I would say that the greatest of all is Art Tatum.
2007-11-19 08:59:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, to listen to, go with Liberache or Angela Hewitt...but composer wise, definatly Chopin, Beethoven, or Clementi.
2007-11-18 20:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about listening to them on you tube but some greats are: Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, George Frederic Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Antonio Lucio Vivaldi are my personal favorites.
2007-11-17 17:37:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mandy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chopin - Liszt - Rachmanninov - Mussorgsky
NOT Bach (for me anyway, I prefer the original instrument - although many recordings of Bach use piano)
Oh - and try Flanders and Swann... Superb!!
2007-11-17 17:35:35 · answer #5 · answered by Emma Jean 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok...although many of the answers given so far are indeed incredible pianists (although some answers were just ludicrous) they are not what most people consider to be "the masters" that you are looking for. I know Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart were indeed great pianists...but we actually don't know for sure how good...because NO ONE ALIVE HAS EVER HEARD THEM! Anway...here are some people that you should listen to on YouTube (in no particular order):
Artur Rubinstein:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cHDyLKvDPk
Vladimir Horowitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyKyicrfJdI
Martha Argerich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9MvizSf78
Sergei Rachmaninoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcAXvnWPdM
Sviatoslav Richter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmk7nnsJf_k
Gyorgy Cziffra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SygS5yz7x5M
Alfred Brendel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkH0cPzg-IU
Alfred Cortot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBsoCD94lPk&feature=related
Arturo Benediti Michelangeli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDbgybvRdJs
Glenn Gould
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3atJSmgTM&feature=related
Vladimir Ashkenazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2LktDZR4g
There are sooo many more...but just for fun here a few newer famous pianists that I love:
Evgeny Kissin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y9Wiqsd9xY
Sergio Tiempo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbU_N102vIY
Antonio Pompa-Baldi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu-1W1k1QTk
Valentina Lisitsa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAb2nI2hVqk
Ivo Pogorelich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFsMqVr3B8
Oops...i just read your comment about wanting stuff like beethoven...hehe...I guess you meant composers of piano music, instead of pianists? My bad...
So yeah...
Baroque Period: J.S. Bach, Scarlatti, (Handel and Vivaldi are not standard for pianists)
Classical Period: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi
Romantic Period: Brahms, Rachmaninoff (there are recordings of him playing his own works), Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Scriabin
Impressionist: Debussy, Ravel
20th Century/Modern: Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Copland, Shostakovich, Bartok, George Crumb and John Cage (in certain opinions)
21st cent./post-modern: John Corigliano, Lowell Lieberman, Gyorgy Ligeti
2007-11-17 19:39:10 · answer #6 · answered by PianoPianoPiano 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jerry Lee Lewis
2007-11-17 17:33:53 · answer #7 · answered by Betty B 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Lee Dorsey.
2007-11-17 17:37:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russ Conway who played great lively tunes. I like Richard Clayderman as well and have just bought one of his cds off e-bay.
2007-11-17 17:39:56 · answer #9 · answered by sanny 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ferante and Tisher sp? George Winston.
2007-11-17 17:33:45 · answer #10 · answered by MommaDoo 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋