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I met him and heard him in Philadelphia play a recital at Curtis institute it was unforgettable. He obviously did not care much about the limelight otherwise he would have been a household name!

I heard him in recital at Curtis institute in Philadelphia

Lindo recital. Bach sublime !

Wonderful performance of the C-minor Suite. Perfect tempi.

The transition after the Raindrop prelude is so powerful!

Programma interessantissimo. Luvisi è un interprete profondo. Dovrebbe essere più conosciuto.

nobilissima interpretazione

Incredible speed and masterhood in Sonata K386 - I never heard a Pianist play that fast. ruclips.net/video/WWVOcRlk-Mc/видео.html

Never even heard of this guy. Why? Wonderful playing!

Sencillamente : BRAVO!!! Sublime. Gracias

Excellent! 59:00 of pure enjoyment! Thanks for uploading.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful performance. Bravo!

Thank you for sharing. Wonderful performances. FYI, for the second piece on the program, the Prelude in G, I believe that the BWV number should be 902/1. (There's also a BWV 902/1a which is an alternate Prelude to the accompanying Fughetta.)

I was a graduate student at The University School of Music when Lee Luvisi was a faculty member there.. I used to make sure that I got a front row seat whenever and wherever he was playing solo piano. He used to hum along as he played. This was especially audible during the pianissimos! He is a most incredible pianist! He is also one of the kindest people I ever had the pleasure of knowing.

When I was 17 I heard him play what was for me a life-transforming recital at Brevard Music Festival. He played two works: the Hammerklavier Op. 106, and Op. 111. Stupendous and powerful.

Luvisi’s approach to the second movement of op. 78 in very unique. Such clarity in sound, he does not shorten the 16th notes like many pianists.

Amazing

Gorgeous

Listening to this makes me love beethoven more than ever. Luvis's playing could probably melt a psychopath's heart. Personally , its not easy listening with dry eyes. Just gorgeous playing that has gold in each note!! What more can I say? Thanks Mr. Luvisi!

Lee Luvisi is (was?--I gather he's still alive but no longer concertizes) one of those pianists who is easily the equal of any number of pianists with recording contracts, but for reasons known only to the higher powers of the universe chose to concentrate mostly on playing the occasional concert and teaching. (He can also be heard on a few Louisville Orchestra First Edition recording, one of which features Hindemith's piano concerto from the 1940s.) I've heard him live and knew some of his students, all of whom thought the world of him. If you can get past the horrible sonics -- what, a $20 Walkman cassette player hidden inside a purse or something? -- you'll hear one of the few good performances of the Hindemith First Piano Sonata right here.

Tout à fait sublime.

The Chopin Barcarolle at 1:05:07… I come back to this recording of my favorite Chopin work over and over

I heard him in recital in Philadelphia years ago at Curtis. Wonderful recital and artist. The greatest artists aren't necessarily popularized whether by choice , bad luck , poor management etc.,but thankfully they can be sometimes discoverer if one seeks them out. Then we become enlightened and enriched by them!

I’m so thankful these performances of Luvisi’s are available. His playing ad artistry are of the highest order. And I have had the pleasure of hearing him play since 1967. While I heard him live for many years, today I heard this while traveling on backroads on a trip and hearing him via youtube on my vehicle’s good speakers.

Finally another recording of Martinů Sonata other than Firkušný's that's worth listening to. How I wish it was in the correct pitch, though.

So glad I can listen to this without adds!

Remarkable! I will never forget that recording of the prelude op 23 no 8 by Rachmaninoff. Neither Ashkenazy and nor Richter makes the melody sing out so well!

Fabulous! What a wonderful musician he is.

Some of the best Haydn I've ever heard. Thank you for posting!

Thank you for the great enjoyment!

Such exquisite beauty.

This is my favorite recording of the impromptus D. 935 (Op. 142)

I would dearly love to have his complete Beethoven sonatas on you tube to listen to. I remember listening to his opus 109 and particularly in the theme and variations being emotionally and spiritually moved to a high spiritual plane I have rarely experienced. A truly great artist that should have as much of his recordings preserved for other musical lovers

Judging by Mr Luvisi's own exalted standards (as evidenced elsewhere, especially in his sublime reading of Schubert's last Sonata), I find the first movement of the Schumann lacking the last ounce of Romantic fervour - curiously in the quiet sections rather than the "passionate" loud ones; they need to be more innig (a favourite marking of Schumann's). In the second movement, he admirably observes the opening mf marking (so many crash in ff here), but again I'm not getting the composer's impatience to be with Clara. It's all a little too Beethovenian (and Luvisi's Beethoven is outstanding) ... until the Coda, that is, where the passion finally comes through. Bravo. And again in the finale, a want of Innigkeit, of fragility, perhaps, beautifully played as it is; and the climaxes are rushed. (Yes, there is a sexual connotation here; isn't that what this finale is about?) I was particularly looking forward to hearing the Schubert Sonata (after that incredible D960). Sadly, it doesn't quite deliver. Listen to Uchida and you'll hear what I mean. And the lovely Impromptu is, as so often, rushed off its feet. Thanks for posting, though. A great pianist and musician who should be a household name.

Oh, my! This is a truly sublime performance of the great Bb Sonata! I won't waste words; just switch everything off, close your eyes and listen ... Thank you for posting!

That may be my favorite performance of the F minor Ballade.

This artist has a particular affinity with Schubert, I feel. It's simply wonderful! Thanks for posting.

As in his Beethoven Sonatas, there's an undeniable "authority" about Luvisi's playing here. You immediately feel not only that you are in safe hands, but more importantly that you will be taken on a meaningful and worthwhile journey through this wonderful music - which indeed you are. He even persuaded me to listen to my least favourite of Haydn's Sonatas, the famous on in Eb (oddly, my least favourite Chopin Nocturne is also the famous one in Eb!). Another of these sonatas I didn't know at all. Pity about the "lp scratch" (?) for most of the second half. Thanks for posting.

I have been greatly enjoying discovering this pianist's recordings here on YT, but in the Polonaise I find him occasionally and uncharacteristically a little heavy-handed (Julius Katchen is my benchmark in this lovely and seldom heard piece). In the Sonata, though (as in other Beethoven Sonatas here on YT), there's a "rightness" about his playing. Hard to put describe better, but he makes you think, "Yes, this is how it should go/sound." Lovely. Thanks for posting.

In the Impromptus, this is as near to perfect Schubert playing as you could ever hear (spoilt only by the truly shocking amount of coughing!). No mannerisms, no exaggeration, just pure love of the music. (I will only carp at Luvisi's neglegt of the phrasing in the second Impromptu: the phrases start on the second beat of the bar, not the first; but then almost everyone else does the same ...) Thank you for posting. Only trouble is, I see that I now have a LOT of Luvisi recordings to listen to ...

Wow! This is ultra-refined playing. The Fantasy is a really empty piece (though fascinating as evidence of how Beethoven must have improvised), yet Luvisi (a name new new me) almost makes it sound like a masterpiece. In the Sonata I am reminded of Solomon's playing - than which no praise can be higher in my book. Since Solomon (tragically) didn't get round to recording this sonata, it's especially pleasing to have this elegant recording. The Diabelli are a little too refined for my taste (like those of Luvisi's teacher, Horszowski), but again this is superior piano playing. Why is this pianist not a household name? Thanks for posting.

It didn't occur to me, until I heard this rendition, that pianists often play Bach in thunderous tones and bold, strong strokes, as if to try to emulate the size and sound of an organ. That's what I had become accustomed to hearing. Luvisi doesn't do that. He is clearly playing a piano. Gently and, as xbe below says, tenderly.

How amazing to come upon a completely unknown name on RUclips, and follow the trail to this divine performance. Thank you Schubert, thank you Lee Luvisi, and thanks to RUclips.

Superb sound and gorgeous playing, lots of taste and elegance. But no "Je suis Lindor" :(

Magic

Wow, listening to Lee Luvisi's monumental playing of the first movement of the Schubert's A Major D 959 Piano Sonata right now, and all I can say is that the sound that comes out of the piano is remarkable. He is truly one of the last remaining links to the Golden Age of piano playing! His playing, especially the bass notes combined with the lyrical melodic line for each note, each nuance, reminds me great pianists of the last century like Vladimir Horowitz, Claudio Arrau, Josef Lhevinne and of course his great master teachers Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. Luvisi is most definitely a wonderful teacher. Thanks for posting this treasure!

Lee Luvisi - a Louisville Hometown Hero if there ever was one!

Bravo!

Piano playing beautiful beyond belief.

Very Elegant.