Michael Ponti

Michael Ponti (29 October 1937 – 17 October 2022) was a German-American classical pianist. He was the first to record the complete piano works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. He made more than 80 recordings, around 50 of rarely played concertos from the Romantic period, often the only recording of these works at the time. He played and recorded chamber music with his Ponti-Zimansky-Polasek Trio.

Genre: classical, classical-piano

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Top Tracks

Piano Concerto in C Minor, Op. 185: III. Finale. Allegro
Piano Concerto in C Minor, Op. 185: II. Andante, quasi larghetto
Totentanz (Dance of Death) for Piano and Orchestra, S. 126
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 75, TH 65
Piano Concerto in E Major, Op. 59: II. Andante
Piano Concerto in C Minor, Op. 185: I. Allegro
Piano Concerto in B Major, Op. 100: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Major, Op. 100
Children's Album, Op. 39: II. A Winter Morning
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Major, Op. 100: III. Allegro - Allegretto scherzando - Allegro moderato - Con moto
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Major, Op. 100: II. Andante - Moderato tranquillo
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Major, Op. 100: I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro - Più moderato
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 9 in D Major
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 8 in D Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 7 in C Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 6 in A Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 5 in E-Flat Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 4 in B-Flat Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 2 in A Minor
Etudes tableaux, Op. 39: No. 1 in C Minor

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