Misha Dichter

Now in the fifth decade of a most remarkable and adventurous international career, Misha Dichter is the truly the pianist's pianist, revered as both a performer and teacher. He performs solo recitals and appears with virtually all of the world's major orchestras, performing the virtuoso compositions of Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, as well as music from the central German-Viennese repertoire-works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms.

Do you like happy endings? They're not just in movies and books. Pianist Misha Dichter says they're heard in music as well.

The music heard here is Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, Mvt 3 (Pentatone #5186124).

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