Argentina pianist, Martha Argerich rose to international fame in 1964 when she won the International Chopin Piano Competition at the age of 24.
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Additional Videos:
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Argerich and Kissin: Piano 4 hands - Mozart Sonata KV 521 (part 1/2)
Argerich and Kissin: Piano 4 hands - Mozart Sonata KV 521 (part 2/2)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, op 50
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"Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense, you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. This profession does have its hazards."
- Vladimir Horowitz
"I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you only want me to play the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare."
- Vladimir Horowitz
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Additional Videos:
Vladimir Horowitz & conductor Arturo Toscanini: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 1943 Live
Interview: Horowitz TV Interview 1977
Documentary: Vladimir Horowitz - The Last Romantic
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Recital soloist, concerto soloist and a chamber musician, Arthur Rubinstein was a Polish American pianist. He performed for over eight decades and while he performed works by variety of composers, he was best known for his interpretation of the music of Frédéric Chopin.
Further Listening:
Schubert: Piano Trio in B-flat
Interview: Arthur Rubinstein on playing and feeling for music, talent, composing, soul, Schubert quintet
Documentary: Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
Chopin: Polonaise in Ab Major Op 53 Heroic
Masterclass: Students at Jerusalem Music Center
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J.S Bach - Bach Goldberg Variationen BWV 988
Joseph Haydn: Haydn Sonata in C major, Hob XVI:50 Ist Mov.
András Schiff plays a lost work by Johannes Brahms (Albumblatt)
Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall
Masterclass: Movement And Melody
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Maurizio Pollini (1942-)
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka 1
Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Beethoven Piano Concerto # 5 (Emperor)
Interview: A Musical Profile 2014
Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Franz Liszt -Etude No. 5 in E Major, "La Chasse"
Documentary: The Gift of Music (1998)
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