I agree with both of you. Those are exceptional pianists, which perhaps prove the ‘rule’. For me Sofronitsky goes into this bracket too.
Yes, definitely here too
Anyone have this Zelikman CD?
Want to check out one of Sokolov’s students? Alexei Orlovetsky:
Randomly I stuck to my word and made it. Just need to order it by date now. Let me know who’s missing. It’s hard to gauge who’s in & who’s out of the SU 
Plus all those who studied there then left.
Adzhemov - 21 March 1911
Afanassiev - 8 September 1947
Akopian-Tamarina - 5 January 1941
Akselrod - 11 October 1923
Alexeev - 10 August 1947
Alumyan - 3 May 1941
Andjaparidze - 15 September 1956
Artobolevskaya - 4 October 1905
Ashkenazy - 6 July 1937
Babayan - 1 January 1961
Bakhchiev - 27 July 1930
Bakst - 4 April 1926
Bakk - 13 June 1944
Barere - 1 September 1896
Bashkirov - 1 November 1931
Batagov - 10 October 1965
Beckman-Shcherbina - 12 January 1882
Bekhterev - 17 August 1942
Belchenko, Valentin - 29 March 1939 - 2004
Belov - 26 July 1906
Berezovsky - 4 January 1969
Berlinskaya - 30 December 1960
Berman, Boris. - 3 April 1948
Berman, Lazar - 26 February 1930
Blagoy - 13 April 1930
Blumenfeld - 19 April 1863
Bobovich, Tamara - 1906 (probably)
Boshniakovich - 9 May 1920
Bozhanov - 10 March 1984
Bruk - 1926
Brumberg - 30 April 1925
Bryushkov - 27 March 1903
Bunin (Stanislav) - 25 September 1966
Bunin (Victor) - 2 March 1936
Bunin (Vladimir) - 16 July 1945
Cherkassky - 7 October 1909
Chukovskaya - 14 January 1958
Davidovich - 16 July 1928
Demidenko - 1 July 1955
Derzhavina - 8 September 1967
Devoyon - 6 April 1953
Diev - 7 July 1958
Dorensky - 3 December 1931
Egorov, Pavel - 8 January 1948
Egorov, Youri - 28 May 1954
Engerer - 27 October 1952
Eresko - 6 August 1942 (French site says 17 Dec ’42)
Faerman - 29 April 1955
Feinberg - 26 May 1890
Feltsman - 8 January 1952
Flier - 21 October 1912
Friedheim - 26 October 1859
Fyodorova - 4 November 1927
Gabrilowitsch - 7 February 1878
Gambaryan - 1 October 1925
Gavrilov - 21 September 1955
Gilels, Elena - 5 September 1948
Gilels, Emil - 19 October 1916
Ginzburg, Anton - 18 September 1930
Ginzburg, Grigory - 29 May 1904
Goldenweiser - 10 March 1875
Goldfarb - 27 November 1914 - 17 November 1964
Golubovskaya - 30 August 1891
Gornostayeva - 1 October 1929
Gotlib (Adolf) - 24 August 1910
Gotlib (Mikhail) - 8 November 1907
Graffman - 14 October 1928
Grinberg - 6 September 1908
Gubaidulina - 24 October 1931
Guseva - 15 August 1926
Gutman, Teodor - 11 November 1905
Gutman, Yulian - 3 September 1933
Heidsieck - 21 August 1936
Hofmann - 20 January 1876
Horowitz - 1 October 1903
Ignatieva - 1 February 1938
Igolinsky - 26 September 1953
Igumnov - 1 May 1873
Jocheles - 27 February 1912
Jonas - 31 May 1911
Kamensky - 12 December 1900
Kantor, Anna Pavlovna - 27 May 1923
Kaplan - 18 December 1919
Kapustin - 22 November 1937
Kastelsky - 12 May 1941
Kerer - 10 July 1923
Kern - 23 April 1975
Kestner, Tatiana - 1905-1989
Kholodenko - 4 September 1986
Khrennikov - 10 June 1913
Khudolei - 4 July 1940
Khuntsaria - 24 July 1949
Kissin - 10 October 1971
Kitain, Anatole - 17 September 1903
Klyachko - 23 August 1905
Knorre - 3 December 1953
Kobrin - 20 March 1980
Kocsis - 30 May 1952
Kogan, Grigory. - 7 July 1901
Kogan, Nina - 25 April 1954
Koroliov - 1 October 1949
Krainev - 1 April 1944
Kremenstein - 13 October 1923 - 31 May 2008
Kuleshov - 1962
Kultyshev - 21 August 1985
Kuschnerova - 6 January 1959
Leonskaja - 23 November 1945
Leschenko - 1981
Lhevinne, J. - 13 December 1874
Lhevinne, R. - 29 March 1880
Lieberman - 22 November 1925 - 5 August 2003
Lifschitz - 10 December 1976
Lobanov - 2 January 1947
Lotar-Shevchenko - 10 March 1901
Lubimov - 16 September 1944
Lugansky - 26 April 1972
Lupu - 30 November 1945
Lyadov - 12 May 1855
Magaloff - 21 February 1912
Malikova - 14 July 1965
Malinin - 8 November 1930
Malinina - 25 January 1929
Marantz - 16 December 1907
Margulis, V. - 16 April 1928
Matsuev - 11 June 1975
Mdivani - 6 October 1936
Medtner - 5 January 1880
Melnikov - 1 February 1973
Merzhanov - 15 August 1919
Miansarov - 24 October 1933
Mieserova - 1936
Mikhnovsky - 17 April 1914
Milstein, Yakov - 4 February 1911
Mogilevsky - 16 September 1945
Monastirsky - 12 December 1945
Mosolov - 11 August 1900
Musaelyan, Eleanor - ?
Musaelyan, Sergei - 23 November 1950
Mussorgsky - 21 March 1839
Nasedkin - 20 December 1942
Natochenny - 26 January 1950
Naumov - 12 February 1925
Navasardyan - 29 October 1946
Nersessian - 26 August 1964
Neuhaus, H. - 12 April 1888
Neuhaus, S. - 21 March 1927
Nielsen - 5 October 1910
Nikolayev - 13 August 1878
Nikolayeva - 4 May 1924
Nikolsky - 1959
Nojima - 23 May 1945
Novitskaya - 24 October 1951
Oborin - 11 September 1907
Ogdon - 27 January 1937
Orlovetsky - 1959
Ovchinnikov - 2 January 1958
Pabst - 15 May 1854
Paley - 9 January 1956
Paperno - 18 February 1929
Pastukhov - 22 August 1894 - 1967
Perelman - 1 August 1906
Petrov, Boris - 13 May 1955
Petrov, Nikolai - 14 April 1943
Petrushansky - 3 June 1949
Piasetsky, Valery - 12 March 1961
Pisarev - 6 November 1962
Pletnev - 14 April 1957
Plotnikova - 23 August 1954
Pogorelich - 20 October 1958
Postnikova - 12 January 1944
Prokofiev - 23 April 1891
Rachmaninoff - 1 April 1873
Razumovskaya - 22 September 1904 - 17 June 1967
Richter - 20 March 1915
Roshchina - 11 September 1928
Rubinstein, Anton - 28 November 1829
Rubinstein, Nikolai - 14 June 1835
Rudenko - 8 December 1967
Rudy - 3 April 1953
Ryumina - 20 January 1950
Safonov - 6 February 1852
Sakharov - 5 December 1937
Sapellnikoff - 2 November 1867
Satz - 31 January 1941
Savshinsky - 6 July 1891
Scherbakov - 11 June 1963
Schnittke - 24 November 1934
Scriabin - 25 December 1871
Selivokhin - 23 April 1946
Serebryakov - 28 February 1906
Sevidov - 8 November 1947
Shatskes - 13 August 1900
Shchedrin - 16 December 1932
Shebanova - 12 January 1953
Shostakovich, D. - 9 August 1975
Shostakovich, M. - 10 May 1938
Shtarkman - 28 September 1927
Siloti - 9 October 1863
Sirota - 4 May 1885
Skavronsky - 18 October 1931
Slesarev - 22 August 1947
Slobodyanik - 5 September 1941
Sofronitsky - 8 May 1901
Sokolov - 18 April 1950
Sorokina - 6 April 1940
Sudbin - 19 April 1980
Suk - 21 December 1945
Sultanov - 7 August 1969
Sumbatyan, Anaida - 5 September 1905 - 1985
Svetlanova - 23 January 1932
Taimanov - 7 February 1926
Tamarkina - 23 March 1920
Tchaikovsky (Boris) - 10 September 1925
Timakin - 23 January 1916
Timofeyeva - 7 March 1951
Toradze - 30 May 1952
Trifonov - 5 March 1991
Tropp - 9 November 1939
Trull - 21 August 1956
Ugorski - 28 September 1942
Vasileva, Iraida - 1899
Vedernikov - 3 May 1920
Viardo - 14 November 1949
Virsaladze - 14 September 1942
Vlassenko - 24 December 1928
Volchok - 10 September 1950
Volodos - 24 February 1972
Voskresensky - 25 June 1935
Yablonskaya - 6 December 1938
Yemelyanova - 29 November 1912
Yesipova - 12 February 1851
Yoffe - 18 December 1952
Yudina - 9 September 1899
Zaderatsky - 21 December 1891
Zak - 20 November 1913
Zaritskaya - 2 May 1939
Zelikman - ?
Zeltser - 8 April 1947
Zemliansky - 29 June 1925
Zhukov - 31 August 1936
Zilberstein - 19 April 1965
Zurawlew - 25 December 1886 (Russian sites - 21 Jan ’87)
Zyuzin - 14 October 1916
Tatiana Zelikman (has taught Trifonov, Lifschitz, Volodin, Kobrin, Mordvinov. Is married to Tropp)
Really nice Haydn
Gosh. From the first glance I thought this was Brew’s list of November piano recitals.
I don’t see anything to add immediately, but maybe some more clear borders should be made to define what is meant with a Soviet pianist? The Rubinsteins both died before the SU ever was a thing for instance, and while Volodos was born in it his career didn’t begin until after its collapse. And since you’ve included Maryla Jonas for instance - a Polish born pre-SU pianist - maybe Arthur Rubinstein should be in there as well? I don’t know, maybe just stick to Russian pianists regardless of date of birth? Or just eastern block pianists who made a career within the SU? I’ve randomly never heard of half of these mofos.
To inspire controversy, start a fist fight and in general make people angry, here is da xsdc pick of the GUD ones - from those I’ve actually heard play.
Enlighten me as to who you’d include in addition (or who you’d remove if you want to be that way).
=================================
Ashkenazy - 6 July 1937
Babayan - 1 January 1961
Barere - 1 September 1896
Bashkirov - 1 November 1931
Berezovsky - 4 January 1969
Berman, Lazar - 26 February 1930
Bozhanov - 10 March 1984
Bunin (Stanislav) - 25 September 1966
Cherkassky - 7 October 1909
Demidenko - 1 July 1955
Feinberg - 26 May 1890
Gavrilov - 21 September 1955
Gilels, Emil - 19 October 1916
Ginzburg, Grigory - 29 May 1904
Grinberg - 6 September 1908
Hofmann - 20 January 1876
Horowitz - 1 October 1903
Jonas - 31 May 1911
Kaplan - 18 December 1919
Kerer - 10 July 1923
Kissin - 10 October 1971
Krainev - 1 April 1944
Kultyshev - 21 August 1985
Leschenko - 1981
Lhevinne, J. - 13 December 1874
Lifschitz - 10 December 1976
Lupu - 30 November 1945
Neuhaus, H. - 12 April 1888
Nojima - 23 May 1945
Ogdon - 27 January 1937
Ovchinnikov - 2 January 1958
Pletnev - 14 April 1957
Pogorelich - 20 October 1958
Rachmaninoff - 1 April 1873
Richter - 20 March 1915
Scherbakov - 11 June 1963
Scriabin - 25 December 1871
Sofronitsky - 8 May 1901
Sokolov - 18 April 1950
Sultanov - 7 August 1969
Syomin - 6 February 1945 <-- psst! Tony!
Timofeyeva - 7 March 1951
Ugorski - 28 September 1942
Volodos - 24 February 1972
Yudina - 9 September 1899
Haha yeah Brew can cover contemporary pianism in one month of recitals 
I forgot to remove some pianists from that list (Jonas, Ogdon, some others). But yeah the SU / Russian definition will need to be made. I’m inclined to exclude anyone born there who left young, and include anyone who moved there young to study through maturity. That’s why I had Nojima, Son, Lupu…all of whom blossomed there.
A lot of them are on my YT channel. 4 or 5 are Central Music School teachers who didn’t record much or at all (Zelikman, Artobolevskaya, Kestner, Bobovich, Timakin) but who all have pedagogical links to pianists we listen to like Pletnev and Ashkenazy.
Towards the end I just started to throw in all Russians (well ok aside from Lola Astanova and Anastasia Huppmann). 
Annoyingly some of these outstanding pianists hardly recorded.
Definitely not removing any but if you don’t know I would add:
Konstantin Adzhemov
Vladimir Belov
Ekaterina Derzhavina
Alexander Jocheles
Evgeny Lieberman
Inna Malinina (I will upload some more of her. Goldenweiser pupil).
Alexander Melnikov
Isaac Mikhnovsky
Vera Razumovskaya
Abram Shatskes (Medtner pupil)
Leo Sirota (though I guess you know him, and maybe he shouldn’t be in this list)
Rosa Tamarkina (I guess you know her too)
Thanks for Syomin!
Thanks! No I’m not really familiar with any of those. I have heard Derzhavina’s French Overture - which is good - and I have the CDs Vista Vera have issued with Tamarkina but I’ve never gotten round to listen to them. Another friend is very fond of Melnikov as well and I have a vague memory of having heard something superb in Scriabin from him on youtube, but I might be thinking about someone else. Either way I definitely have homework to do here.
How ironic that he plays liszt
Tamarkina is great, shame she died so young.
I have to say that I find this performance to be very captivating and I’m not a huge fan of 
's opera paraphrases.
Derzhavina and Melnikov are the only ones still playing and they’re both quite young and (more importantly) appear to be the sort who get better as they age.
Sirota’s recordings were released by Arbiter. The rest (of the ones I suggested) are from old Soviet recordings, most just at-home transfers from LPs. Belov for example has just 3 or 4 short extant recordings but he still comes through, and Shatskes only recorded his teacher Medtner but the same applies. Adzhemov was a very nice surprise for me last year. He studied with Igumnov and made a memorable recordings of Rachmaninoff’s first sonata (premiered by Igumnov).
I like Derzhavina, a few of her recordings have been posted her in the past.
Fantastic performance IMO!
Kocsis was studying in Russia?
No that was my error in forgetting to remove it from the list (I had added extra ones to note birthdays).
Could someone please remind me which piece this is at 1:00 into this video? I want to hear it again but can’t remember