Dubravka Tomsic
Slovenia's Dubravka Tomsic is something of a connoisseur's pianist, not a marquee name widely known outside of classical music circles, but often listed among the finest players in the world by those in the know. Only now becoming well known in the West, she was a marquee name in the former Yugoslavia and in other Eastern European countries. Born in 1940 in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, she gave her first piano recital at age five. She grew up in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana and studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Music during her childhood. Her talents were noticed by the great Chilean-American pianist Claudio Arrau, who encouraged her to come to the U.S. to study. So, when she was 12, Tomsic moved to New York and enrolled at the Juilliard School, where her primary teacher was Katherine Bacon. The teenaged pianist gave recitals around New York, including one in Carnegie Hall that attracted the attention of Artur Rubinstein. Tomsic studied for two years with Rubinstein, and he called her "a perfect and marvelous pianist." She graduated from Juilliard with two special awards, by which time she had an appearance with the New York Philharmonic under her belt.
After these high-flying beginnings, however, Tomsic chose to return home to Ljubljana. From the late 1950s until the late 1980s she taught at the Ljubljana Academy of Music (where she is still a professor), raised a family, and built a considerable reputation in southeastern Europe. Her return to the U.S. spotlight came in 1989 with an acclaimed performance at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, and since then she has played recitals in over a dozen U.S. cities (often finding herself immediately asked back afterward) and around Europe. She has also made concerto appearances with orchestras and performed at several major music festivals. Since 1987 she has released over 60 recordings, including most of the major Romantic concertos and solo piano music from Bach and Scarlatti to Debussy and Rachmaninov.
At the keyboard, Tomsic's reserved demeanor belies the expressivity of her playing. Noted for the variety of tone colors she can coax from the piano and for the power and smoothness of her trills, Tomsic offered performances that often evoked the adjective "seamless." Her "dazzling technique," noted the Boston Phoenix after a Tomsic concert that finally ended after five encores, "is never an end but a means of achieving emotional directness and poetic insinuation."
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Chopin: Waltz No. 1 for Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 "Grand Valse Brillante" (Digitally Remastered)
Classique - Paru chez EMG Classical le 18 juin 2012
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Chopin: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pešek, Ida Cernecka, Dubravka Tomsic
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Bella Musica Edition le 1 janv. 2008
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Chopin: Polonaise No. 3 in A Major, Op. 40, No. 1 “Military” (Digitally Remastered)
Classique - Paru chez EMG Classical le 18 juin 2012
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Grieg:Piano Concerto In A Minor , Schuman: Piano Concerto In A Minor
Dubravka Tomsic, Marian Lapsansky
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Stradivari Classics le 1 janv. 1987
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Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 "Solveig's Song" (Digitally Remastered)
Classique - Paru chez EMG Classical le 6 août 2013
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The Best of Classical Music / Scarlatti "Piano Sonatas"
Classique - Paru chez Platiner - Classical Music le 11 juin 2018
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Songs of Summer: Piano Solo, Vol. 2
Lucille Chung, James Rhodes, Dubravka Tomsic
Classique - Paru chez East Props Music - OMiP le 19 août 2022
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Bach: Partita for Harpsichord BWV 825 - 827, Toccata and Fugue, BWV 912 & 3 Little Preludes
Classique - Paru chez Music square le 2 févr. 2015
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A Liszt Recital
Classique - Paru chez IPO Recordings le 19 mai 2017
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Mozart: Piano Concertos 15 & 19
Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, Dubravka Tomsic
Classique - Paru chez Int - Bertus le 30 sept. 2016
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Domenico Scarlatti - Sonatas
Classique - Paru chez Digital Masterworks le 5 janv. 2024
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The Best of Classical Music / Ludwig van Beethoven Sonatas: "Waldstein", "Moonlight", "Pathetique"
Classique - Paru chez Platiner - Classical Music le 12 juin 2018
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8 in C Minor Op.13 "Sonata Pathetique"
Classique - Paru chez Red Note OMP le 17 mai 2010
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.21 in C Major Op.53 "Waldstein"
Classique - Paru chez Red Note OMP le 17 mai 2010
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Liszt: Valse Oubliée No. 1, S. 215 (Digitally Remastered)
Classique - Paru chez EMG Classical le 3 sept. 2013
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Classical Masterpieces - Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata "Waldstein" & Symphony No. 5
Dubravka Tomsic, Anton Nanut, Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
Classique - Paru chez favori RECORDS le 29 janv. 2021
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Grandes Compositores, Frédéric Chopin
Dubravka Tomsic, Peter Schmalfuss
Classique - Paru chez ClassicalPirosDigital le 14 juil. 2015
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Die Welt des Barock
Stuttgarter Blaeserquintett, Dubravka Tomsic, Stuttgarter Bachsolisten
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Bella Musica Edition le 17 mai 2004
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Dubravka Tomsic, Bernard Thomas Chamber Orchestra, Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Thomas, Anton Nanut
Musique concertante - Paru chez Vox le 22 mars 2024
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Classics For Cat Lovers
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Stradivari Classics le 1 janv. 1999
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Bach: Partita No.1, Italian Concerto, Toccata in D
Classique - Paru chez Maestro le 1 janv. 1988
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