Sentence examples for major pianist from inspiring English sources

Rachmaninoff, also a major pianist, is best known for his concerti and for his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1954) for piano and orchestra.

Yet this major pianist, who brings prodigious technique, keen imagination and insightful musicianship to her playing, is hardly known in the United States.

Try for returns to one of the most interesting and innovative programs that a major pianist has put forward at Carnegie in many years.

At 38 he is a major pianist, and his new recordings of the five Beethoven piano concertos, with Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902053.55; three CDs), are exceptionally fine.

Fittingly the concert opened with an arrangement: the transcription of Bach's Organ Fantasia and Fugue in G minor by Theodor Szanto, a student of Busoni, a major pianist-composer and prolific transcriber of Bach's works.

All of these major pianists have taken or are taking a sabbatical from performing.

So despite the advocacy of major pianists like Maurizio Pollini, Mitsuko Uchida and Peter Serkin, you don't often hear his piano works in recital.

In recent seasons New Yorkers have heard two major pianists, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Andras Schiff, play this concerto with commanding technique and more distinctive musicianship.

But through all of this there was a sense that maybe he was traveling light, without the focus on masterworks that major pianists ought to have.

With this gesture, the company is both supporting the educational initiative and honoring the memory of two major pianists who were exclusive Steinway artists.

Ms. Wang, like most major pianists, is acclaimed for putting on a show, and on Thursday her big effects — the passagework, octaves and such — were secure both in the concerto and in the dazzling fantasias on arias from "The Barber of Seville" and "Carmen" that she played as encores.