The man who is now better known as a composer was much admired for his use of legato and the singing tone he was able to produce. We may not have any recordings of Beethoven performing, but we have the virtuosic and inventive music he wrote for the piano and accounts from people who heard him play. “ Beethoven’s playing differs so greatly from the usual method of treating the piano, that it seems as if he had struck out an entirely new path for himself.” Those are the words of one of Beethoven’s contemporaries, Carl Ludwig Junker. We recently asked the great pianist (and now conductor!) to share his advice for pianists. In 1962 he was a joint winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (with John Ogdon, see below) and the following year he left the USSR to live in London. Having been born in Russia he now holds both Icelandic and Swiss citizenship and is still performing as a pianist and conductor around the world. He ennobles that music in a way no one else in the world can.”Īshkenazy is one of the heavyweights of the classical music world. The legendary conductor Colin Davis said of Arrau: “His sound is amazing, and it is entirely his own… His devotion to Liszt is extraordinary. He’s perhaps best-known for his interpretations of the music of Beethoven. It wasn’t long before he was playing works like the virtuosic Transcendental Etudes by Liszt. It’s said that this great Chilean pianist could read music before he could read words. She is now arguably the greatest living pianist and can sell out concerts in minutes. The world woke up to the phenomenal talent of the Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich in 1964 when she won the International Chopin Piano Competition at the age of 24.
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