Jean-Yves Thibaudet (b1961-France), who recently recorded part of the Alexander Desplat score for the film "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," returned to Los Angeles, where he resides, to perform the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He gave a performance that was described by the music critic of the Los Angeles Times as "making the concerto sparkle with sustained brilliance." There were a few dropped notes that suddenly cropped up in just one unexposed tutti section during the Saturday performance that I attended, but that is a quibble. I only mention this because we are so accustomed to hear note perfect recorded performances by the current crop of pianists that we assume that they never hit a clunker. Yes, they do. However, with Thibaudet, the slips were very minor.
Here, Thibaudet plays the Liszt transcription of Tchaikovsky's Polonaise from Eugene Onegin.

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