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 Beethoven 8
Classical - Released by Music Master on 24 Nov 2017
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto
Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana, Dubravka Tomsic, George Rider
Classical - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on 27 Feb 2014
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Silver Classics, Domenico Scarlatti
Classical - Released by Hhpvrdigital on 16 May 1989
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Chopin: Waltz for Piano, Op. 64 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 18 Jun 2012
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Liszt: Étude De Concert No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S. 144 "Un Sospiro" (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 3 Sep 2013
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Scarlatti: 13 Keyboard Sonatas
Classical - Released by Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording on 18 May 2020
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Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight", Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique", Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata"
Dubravka Tomsic, Dieter Goldmann
Classical - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on 27 Feb 2014
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Elegent Baroque
Dubravka Tomsic, Valery Lloyd-Watts, Zina Schiff
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on 1 Jan 1999
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Chopin: Waltz No. 9 and 10 for Piano, Op. 69 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 18 Jun 2012
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Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
Concertos - Released by Red Note OMP on 5 Apr 2010
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Liszt: Consolation No. 3 for Piano in D-Flat Major, S. 172 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 3 Sep 2013
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Chopin: Waltzes, Op. 34, 64, 69 & 70 - Nocturnes
Classical - Released by Denon on 1 Jan 2009
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Start Your Morning With Bach
Dubravka Tomsic, Klemens Schnorr, Zina Schiff
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on 1 Jan 1999
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Mozart: Piano Sonatas In E-flat, K 282 And C, K 457; Fantasia In C, K 575
Classical - Released by eOne Music International Classics on 20 Jan 1991
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Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 for Piano in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 15 “Romance” (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 18 Jun 2012
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Liszt: Liebesträume No. 3 in A-Flat Major, G. 541, Op. 62 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on 3 Sep 2013
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Favorite Encores
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on 1 Jan 1989
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Beethoven: Sonatas For Piano
Classical - Released by eOne Music International Classics on 20 Aug 1991
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Beethoven: Emperor Concerto/Egmont Overture
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on 1 Jan 1988
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The Best of Classical Music / Johann Sebastian Bach "Italian Concert in F Major", "Partita No. 1 in B Major", "Toccata in D Major"
Classical - Released by Platiner - Classical Music on 12 Jun 2018
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Bach: Partita No. 1 - Italian Concerto - Toccata in D
Classical - Released by Maestro on 21 Feb 2012
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