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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Classical Chopin 1
Classique - Paru chez Music Master le 18 juil. 2017
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Music for Little Princesses
Dubravka Tomsic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Fritz Reiner
Classique - Paru chez Music Manager le 16 nov. 2015
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Clásicos del Piano: Chopin
Dubravka Tomšič, Hélène Gál, Peter Schmalfuss, Ida Černecká
Classique - Paru chez Hhpvrdigital le 23 mai 1993
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Classique - Paru chez One Media le 16 févr. 2017
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World Famous Piano Music, Vienna Master Series, Chopin: Impromptus, Nocturnes & Fantasie
Classique - Paru chez Hhpvrdigital le 21 sept. 1991
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Beethoven - Piano Sonatas No.14 "Moonlight" - No. 8 "Pathetique" - No. 23 "Appasionatta" - Bagatelle In A Minor, Op. 59, "Für Elise"
Dubravka Tomsic, Angela Giulini
Musique concertante - Paru chez AV360 Music le 26 oct. 1995
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Grieg Essential
Simfonicni orkester RTV Slovenija, Philharmonia Slavonica, Dubravka Tomsic
Classique - Paru chez AV360 Music le 18 oct. 2012
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Chopin: Etude No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25 "The Cello" (Digitally Remastered)
Classique - Paru chez EMG Classical le 18 juin 2012
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Moonlight time with Beethoven
Dubravka Tomsic, Valery Lloyd-Watts, Herbert Waltl
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Stradivari Classics le 1 janv. 1999
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Cocktails with Mozart
Dubravka Tomsic, Igor Ozim, Pietro Cavaliere
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Stradivari Classics le 1 janv. 1999
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Silver Colección, Beethoven - Sonate No. 21, Sonate No. 14, Sonate No. 8
Classique - Paru chez SendClassic le 19 mai 2002
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Dioses de la Música - Mozart, Scarlatti
Orquesta Del Festival Mozart, Dubravka Tomsic
Classique - Paru chez Piros Comercial Digital le 24 mai 2015
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Mozart for Mommies
Alexander Madzar, Dubravka Tomsic, Igor Ozim, Alexander Madazar
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Stradivari Classics le 12 août 2008
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Silver Colección, Beethoven - Concerto Para Piano No. 1, Sonata for Piano Op. 6
Dubravka Tomsic, Anton Nanut, Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
Classique - Paru chez SendClassic le 19 mai 2002
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 4 Op. 58 & No. 5 Op. 73 "Emperor"
Hanspeter Gmur, Dubravka Tomsic
Musique concertante - Paru chez AV360 Music le 26 oct. 1995
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Claude Debussy - Piano Classics
Classique - Paru chez Big Eye Music le 1 juin 2009
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Classics To Shag by Baby
The London Festival Orchestra, Alfred Scholz, Dubravka Tomsic
Classique - Paru chez Maestoso le 1 janv. 1999
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Grandes Obras, Concierto Para Piano No. 1 & No. 2
Dubravka Tomsic, Marko Minih, Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
Classique - Paru chez SendMusic le 16 juin 1994
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Brahms, Piano Concerto No.2, Op.83, Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Dubravka Tomsic, Anton Nanut, Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana
Classique - Paru chez SendMusic le 16 juin 1994
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