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Listed below are Legato Music's suggested performers. This
list is focusing on performers who left their mark in the second
half of the twentieth century and in the new millennium. The list features outstanding professionals,
interpreters whose recordings are almost guaranteeing high musical and
technical standards. Many illustrious
musicians from the mono and early stereo periods are omitted, as their discography is either small or poorly
recorded - or both. This list ignores the recorded legacy of some familiar
names; unfortunately the classical music stage tolerates (and even
glorifies) a considerable number of mediocre performers whose abilities are closer to the performance
skills of music teachers, than
to the concert stage virtuosi. Also missing from this list are several well-known
performers whose recordings are yet to be properly evaluated by Legato
Music's reviewers; thus some names may be added in the
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INSTRUMENTALISTS
- Piano |
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CONDUCTORS |
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ORCHESTRAS |
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Andsnes, Leif Ove |
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Abbado,
Claudio |
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Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra |
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Arrau,
Claudio |
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Ashkenazy,
Vladimir |
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Bavarian
R.S.O. |
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Argerich,
Martha |
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Barenboim,
Daniel |
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Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Ashkenazy,
Vladimir |
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Bernstein,
Leonard |
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Berlin
State Orchestra |
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Ax,
Emanuel |
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Bohm,
Karl |
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Boston
Symphony Orchestra |
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Barenboim,
Daniel |
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Chailly,
Riccardo |
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Chicago
Symphony Orchestra |
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Bashkirov,
Dmitri |
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Davis,
Sir
Colin |
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Cleveland
Orchestra |
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Berezovsky,
Boris |
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Dutoit,
Charles |
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Concertgebouw
Orchestra |
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Berman,
Lazar |
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Flor,
Claus Peter |
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Czech
Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Bishop-Kovachevich,
Stephen |
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Gardiner,
Sir John Eliot |
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Dresden
State Orchestra |
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Brendel,
Alfred |
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Giulini, Carlo Maria |
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French
National Orchestra |
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Bronfman,
Yefim |
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Haitink,
Bernard |
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Frankfurt
R.S.O. |
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Demidenko,
Nikolai |
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Harnoncourt, Niklaus |
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Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra |
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Edelman,
Sergei |
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Inbal,
Eliahu |
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Leningrad
Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Feltsman,
Vladimir |
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Jansons,
Mariss |
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London
Symphony Orchestra |
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Gavrilov,
Andre |
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Jarvi,
Neeme |
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Montreal
Symphony Orchestra |
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Gilels,
Emile |
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Jochum,
Eugen |
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New
York Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Gould,
Glenn |
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Karajan,
Herbet Von |
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Orchestre
de la Suisse Romande |
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Horowitz,
Vladimir |
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Klemperer,
Otto |
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Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Hough,
Stephen |
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Levine,
James |
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Philadelphia
Orchestra |
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Katchen,
Julius |
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Maazel,
Lorin |
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Philharmonia
Orchestra |
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Katsaris,
Cyprien |
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Mackerras,
Sir Charles |
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R.S.O.
Berlin |
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Kissin,
Yevgeny |
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Marriner,
Sir
Neville |
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Russian
National Orchestra |
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Koczis,
Zoltan |
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Masur,
Kurt |
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Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Laplante,
Andre |
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Mehta
Zubin |
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Larocha,
Alicia De |
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Munch
Charles |
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CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS/GROUPS |
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Lortie,
Louis |
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Mutti,
Riccardo |
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Academy
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
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Lupu,
Radu |
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Ozawa, Seiji |
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Camerata Bern |
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Michelangeli,
Arturo Benedetti |
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Pinnock,
Trevor |
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Chamber Orchestra of
Europe |
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Nikolayeva, Tatiana |
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Previn,
Andre |
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English Chamber Orchestra |
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Perahia,
Murray |
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Rattle, Sir Simon |
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Franz Liszt Chamber
Orchestra |
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Pires,
Maria Joao |
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Salonen,
Esa-Pekka |
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I Musici |
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Pletnev,
Mikhail |
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Sanderling, Kurt |
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I Musici di Montreal |
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Pogorelich,
Ivo |
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Sawalich,
Wolgang |
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I Solisti Veneti |
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Pollini,
Maurizio |
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Sinopoli,
Giuseppe |
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Moscow Virtuosi |
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Richter,
Sviatoslav |
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Slatkin,
Leonard |
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National Arts Orchestra,
Ottawa |
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Rubinstein,
Arthur |
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Solti,
Sir George |
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
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Serkin,
Rudolph |
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Tate,
Jeffrey |
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Prague Chamber Orchestra |
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Sokolov,
Grigori |
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Tilson
Thomas, Michael |
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra |
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Volodos,
Arcadi |
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Wand,
Günther |
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Virtuosi di Roma |
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Watts,
Andre |
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Zacharias,
Christian |
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Zimerman,
Krystian |
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