Tonight is the Aimard recital. I can’t say for sure I’ll be able to record it, or that there will be a saved copy on the website afterwarads, so if someone else wants it they should probably try to grab it.
Damnit they pulled the program at the last minute. It won’t be broadcast
Lame!
Hamelin will play there in November, perhaps they’ll broadcast it
I wish he would’ve played that programme here.
Instead he played Ravel LH last time and tonight.
Still haven’t had the chance to see him in a recital.
Hah, I’ve beaten you by at least 21 years then. 
My first MAH recital was around 1996 I think, and I heard him annually until in 2001. He was just incredible back in those days.
Damn, rezpec!
At that time I was obsessed with basketball, didn’t really become passionate about piano until I was 16.
For whatever reason da doc doesn’t recital here much, even when he came in 2014 (before I moved here) he was playing in Jeanine Roze’s Sunday matinee series.
I was very green back then too, and didn’t realize until at least a year later that this was actually a good pianist. I switched from Nirvana, Metallica etc to piano literally over night in March 1996 I think, and didn’t look back again until 17 years later.
I think Hamelin has had a bit of an issue getting recognised, and I know he is still looked at with suspicion by some more conservative presenters. He’s only been invited a single time to the big halls here too, and that was to play the Paganini Rhapsody (in 2002). Already that was really wild & crazy for them - here anything that isn’t Mozart & Beethoven is considered degenerate pop music, and someone who plays Alkan is surely one of those long haired gangsta rappers.
I was a bit like that too, although I kept both rock/metal and classical for a couple of years until I decided that piano was it for me, so quit playing guitar to solely concentrate on that.
It’s pretty sad and frustrating for me as I’m not interested in concerti.
Even the only pianist who consistently bores me Blechacz plays recitals at the Philharmonie.
No respect for da doc. 
Right now Mariinsky is showing Christian Blackshaw live in recital
who da fook is dat guy?
Mr. Ordinary. Sometimes pedestrian playing is more painful than anything ugly. I switched it off after a while.
At least it gave me my first look inside of the new Mariinsky.
It looks very nice. I uploaded one short video from there - Berezovsky playing Rebikov’s Christmas Tree Waltz.
Thanks for that charming little morsel of Russian nostalgia.
It’s lovely, and I’m sure would be indulged in much more in another’s hands. I’m glad Sokolov was playing the Griboyedov Waltz, another little treasure.
I really like Berezovsky, though primarily early in his career. It was around the time of that Diabelli/Goldberg program he had taken in to his head to play that I felt he began to waver, although I heard him do a few miniatures by Grieg in concert myself in an inimitable way as late as 2006. Rebikov here, too, was just fine to my ears.
Everything I hear him play post-your date sounds shallow IMO, and lately it seems like he has not been practicing (for whatever reason), because there are lots of instances of mess-ups mid-performance.
The truth, I think, is that most pianists don’t get better as they age.
Yes, for me it’s that he’s lost that “cool” horizontal way of thinking about music he had in the 90s. Nowadays it’s rather as if he brute-forces himself through the works, without much finesse, style or brains put in there. I still don’t find him bad though and I try to hear him occasion, but he hasn’t interested me enough to really follow what he’s up to since 2002.
I guess you have a point with the age thing, but I can think of numerous counter examples too. I don’t like early Sokolov at all for instance, and think he had his golden period ca 1988-2002 and right now after 2014. Argerich was great already in the 1960s, but has been at least as good if not better from around 2000 with a more beautiful tone above all (though she’s never been for me). And there’s Zimerman, 60s Horowitz, 80s Arrau, post 1970 Cherkassky and Bolet, post ~2002 Ciccolini, Horszowski etc etc etc. It’s also rare to hear the kind of colors and full, lush sound world you have from Sokolov, Volodos, Schiff etc today from any pianist below 40, which is a major thing for me in pianism.
I do think you have to change things though and see to that you develop, and not just continue like you did when you were 20 and assume that’ll work throughout life. Up until now, I think that’s where Berezovsky has fallen.
Fiorentino is another who got better with age, though some of his early recordings are still amazing.