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Backless Rachmaninov is the new big thing

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

January 28, 2023

The Vienna-based Russian pianist Anastasia Huppmann has just dropped a new video.

She has said she won’t play again in Russia until it withdraws forces from Ukraine.

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Wim says:

January 28, 2023 at 8:12 am

I must say I do not understand Slippedisc on many new items. This is one of them. Why mentioning this pianist? It is much and much more interesting the news on pianist Mikhail Voskresensky @ CNN a week ago: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/01/19/amanpour-voskresensky-fletcher-russia-ukraine.cnn
And yes, I like the typo error in her name ‘Hippmann’, guess the author looked to much to her hips at time of writing 😉

Petros Linardos says:

January 28, 2023 at 9:05 pm

I’d love to listen to Sergei Babayan performing Rachmaninoff. I don’t care in the least how he will dress. Besides, at concerts I can’t see the pianist’s back: the acoustics of the right side of the hall are better for the piano.

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Serge says:

January 28, 2023 at 8:42 am

When the look of some bare skin carries totally you away it’s easy to get the name wrong; it’s Huppmann.

TNVol says:

January 28, 2023 at 9:31 am

So “stunning and brave”. LOL

Ludwig's Van says:

January 28, 2023 at 9:39 am

She’s got it on backwards!

Petros Linardos says:

January 28, 2023 at 5:55 pm

Yuja is doing back-to-back Rachmaninoff concertos these days. Wonderfully, if I may judge from her performance of 1, 2 and Paganini in Philadelphia last Thursday.

jim says:

January 28, 2023 at 7:08 pm

Isn’t it time that some male performers showed a bit more backbone?

Sue Sonata Form says:

January 28, 2023 at 10:12 pm

Shockingly amateur performance of the Rachmaninov!! The hands aren’t in time with each other. What an utter mish-mash!! Less attention to livery, more attention to talent and detail.