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Take a look around this high caliber pianist!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 06/15/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"John Lill was a prominent British pianist, who despite his enormous musical skills and inimitable tune, has somehow been missed for the great audiences.



As all we know the most of British pianist have always exhibited a common feature; his temperament is remarkably reflexive and introspective; for the American audiences that approach is very distant from the thundering pianism or sparkling temperament of Horowitz, Kapell and Richter, for instance.



You may realize how John Ogdon and Vladimir Ashkenazy, who shared honors in the Second Tchaikovsky's Piano competition 1962 , received different reception in USA. And the list might be extended to Myra Hess, Clifford Curzon, Tomas Vasary, and more recently Leslie Howard. For many listeners this style is far to be engaging. And John Lill who also awards important prizes, could not obtain all his deserved acknowledgement from this side of the Atlantic.



It's time for him to be more widely known, despite the elapsed years, and so you will know about one of the m,ost expressive versions of Brahms Second ever recorded.





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