Michael Ponti
Biography
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.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
297 releases · 55 albums · active 1962–2018
- Performance · 447
- Other credits · 10
Studios: Südwest-Tonstudio Stuttgart · Kirche Blumenstein · Concert Hall Of The Warsaw National Philharmonic · Carl Nielsen Salen
Frequent collaborators
- Tchaikovsky
- Scriabin
- Rachmaninoff
- Various
- Anton Rubinstein
- Alexander Scriabin
- Ignaz Moscheles
- Ferdinand Hiller