Saul Bollox 2:27 Thu Aug 3
Who is your favourite pianist?
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JayeMPee
10:52 Mon Aug 7
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Lang Lang
Charlie Kunz
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1964
10:00 Sat Aug 5
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Liber Archibald
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Far Cough
9:21 Sat Aug 5
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Bit more on that Van Cliburn thing from Wiki:
Recognition in Moscow propelled Cliburn to international prominence.[10] The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, on the heels of that country's technological victory with the Sputnik launch in October 1957. Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 on April 13 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes.[3][11] When it was time to announce a winner, the judges were obliged to ask permission of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to give first prize to an American. "Is he the best?" Khrushchev asked. "Then give him the prize!"
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stewey
9:12 Sat Aug 5
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Bobby crush
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Far Cough
8:54 Sat Aug 5
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Surely Van Cliburn must get a mention, if only for his magnificent version of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 Mvt I-1, which won him an award in the Soviet Union as it was then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M7M4UoqBpA
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joe blob
8:48 Sat Aug 5
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Artur Rubinstein
Sviatoslav Richter
Russ Conway
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Swiss.
3:23 Fri Aug 4
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Erik Satie hands down. With a bit of Debussy on the side.
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OHL
3:14 Fri Aug 4
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Bill Bailey
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backpass
3:12 Fri Aug 4
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Harold Budd
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ironsofcanada
2:55 Fri Aug 4
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The original OP - Oscar Peterson
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Dan M
2:52 Fri Aug 4
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Richard Coles
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Ilford Hammer
2:49 Fri Aug 4
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Bill Evans and Ahmad Jamal
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joe blob
2:33 Fri Aug 4
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Les Dawson - He used to play a piano in a high end brothel in Paris.
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Swiss.
2:17 Fri Aug 4
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Mashed loves Manilow and Liberace
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COOL HAND LUKE
1:43 Fri Aug 4
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Lee Evans - another Les, fucks about then blows you away.
And Victoria Wood was half decent too
And of course hundreds of 'unknowns' who prefer to keep their light under a bushell...
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Any Old Iron
1:38 Fri Aug 4
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Allen Toussaint, Leon Russell & Art Neville
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COOL HAND LUKE
1:36 Fri Aug 4
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What charliepaynter said i.e.
Mike Garson (Bowie's pianist)
Mike was essentially the blood in the veins of the Aladdin Sane album...
Gotta be in his seventies now; was older than Bowie iirc.
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oioi
12:55 Fri Aug 4
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jack flash 12:39 Fri Aug 4
It says favourite, not best.
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jack flash
12:39 Fri Aug 4
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I'm absolutely gobsmacked that nobody's mentioned Scott Joplin!
No competition, simply the best by a mile
For those that haven't heard of him, have a look on Youtube & prepared to get blown away!
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Trevor B
12:13 Fri Aug 4
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Les Dawson
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