02-05-2007 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Dominic Montreal, Canada Posts 69 Joined on 08-23-2006 Post #: 1 Post ID: 3677 Reply to: 3677 Like colourful contrasts? Hinrich Alpers on piano. I was listening to some of this past year's Honens piano 'competition' and was exposed to a german named Hinrich Alpers. If he wants to play whatever it is he's playing you can really tell and the emotional contrasts through colours on the piano are incredible. Which would be all well and good but not really that interesting, if it weren't for his control over those colours, which really is something special. Lots of fun to listen to if you're in the mood.  The Honens website (honens.com) has some exerpts of the performances for the competition. I would suggest both the solo and trio portions.

02-08-2007 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Dominic Montreal, Canada Posts 69 Joined on 08-23-2006 Post #: 2 Post ID: 3697 Reply to: 3677 notes about these files I'm looking forward to finding some quality recordings played by this guy. But in the meantime it's only fair to warn that the files on the Honens site aren't very well encoded, lots of artifacts and a couple level matching issues. The actual recordings are quite simple, so there's some directness you don't get with 'proper' technique, along with acoustic artifacts the microphones couldn't handle etc. At least that's how i see it.