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Martino Tirimo’s performance
ber Orchestra of Europe, the English Chamber,
and many others. He has worked with some of
the world’s finest conductors, including Barbi-
rolli, Sanderling, Masur, Marriner, Norrington,
Berglund, Bychkov, Klee, Mandeal, Tortelier
and Spivakov.
Mr Tirimo’s repertoire is enormous – it in-
cludes 80 concertos and most of the major solo
works of the great composers. He is a champion
of the Dvorak Concerto and the Tippett Con-
certo, which he has performed several times in
Germany and the UK. Among his more than 50
recordings are the two Chopin
Concertos
, the
two Brahms
Concertos
and a CD of Rachmani-
nov’s
Concerto No. 2
and
Paganini Rhapsody
with the Philharmonia, one of EMI’s best sell-
ers and a Gold Disc in 1994 (sales of this disc
in the UK alone topped 200,000 in 1993). In
2006 he recorded the complete piano works of
Mozart at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
Mr Tirimo is particularly renowned for his
Schubert interpretations – in 1975 became the
first pianist to perform a truly complete cy-
cle of the
21 Sonatas
in public, with his own
completions of the unfinished movements, at
the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In 2004 Mr Tirimo
participated in the Athens Festival, part of the
celebration of the 2004 Olympic Games, per-
forming Beethoven’s
Concerto No. 4
with the
Vienna Philharmonic.
Recent highlights from his career include per-
formances of the
Tippett Piano Concerto
, a
series of eight concerts to celebrate Mozart’s
250
th
birthday, concerts in China, a recording of
the complete piano works of Beethoven, and a
unique series of twelve concerts at Kings Place,
London, of the complete works of Chopin, in
honour of the 200
th
anniversary of the compos-
er’s birth.
“Tirimo’s playing belongs to
a past generation of ‘greats’ ”.
Bill Newman