Louis Lortie recommended

Anybody with some hints ?

Have only his Recording with Ravel. It's okay but Nit my Favorit!

Bert,

I don't own a single CD or records of Lortie.

Hopefully Florestan (Doug)  will chime in as he must have all the recorded music ever made! 

I'm a bit late to the party, but only to say that my exposure to Lortie has also been very limited. I've heard him in Brahms and was duly impressed with his playing, and have the (excellent) recordings that he has made with Augustin Dumay. Chandos apparently encourages their pianists to record complete bodies of works, but not in any particular order, which makes it a bit hard to assess his ongoing Chopin cycle (or Douglas' Brahms for that matter). As for Liszt: I'm not looking forward to a complete Pelerinage on a fazioli grand, so no intention to go there for the time being.

EJ

The lack of comments and the comments which I thankfully got tell a big story, for me a no go artist.

The story is really more one of limited resources, finite shelf space and too few hours in a day - I'm sure we both miss out on a few excellent recordings by him. 

EJ

I do have Lortie's Années de pèlerinage on Chandos and I like to listen to it from time to time.

Lortie strikes me as a very competent technician, bit not as a very inspiring musician - there's nothing wrong with his playing but for some reason he doesn't give me the shivers. Alfred Brendel for example seems to have the perfect balance of technique and expression in his interpretation.

This said Lortie is an iconic figure here in Montréal and his concerts are always sold out, so maybe it's just me.

Claude

I guess you have a point, the limitations especially of time will make us concentrate on the best we think we can make use of time.

Bert,

Just for lack of time, I haven't been able to answer many of your questions and posts.  In a month or two when the weather gets colder I may have more time and will try to catch up with more involved responses.

To answer your questions, as far as marketing and marketers would view this, I think they would put many more marketable musicians ahead of Lortie.  From my view, Lortie is every bit as fine and capable as the next guy or gal.  It all comes down, for most individuals, to matching your character with the players character and your expectations. 

I am maybe in a rare category of not really caring what others (like magazines, pundits etc) as I decide what I like and don't like.  I also focus not on the players but tend to collect the music in order to have as many variations of every piece as I can.  I find the whole possible spectrum interesting.  And yes, Kuma is correct.  I now have every album ever made - not   (close - but I'm still missing a few)

Over the decades though I have managed to collect quite a lot of the same thing though.  Seriously, how could someone be happy with only one version of the old & new testament in music?  So I probably have most of what Lortie has recorded.  I think he is getting slightly less personable as the years go on but probably always tended to this way.   By this I mean that he may fall in the camp of those that don't like to add a lot of emotion to the music but rather follow the score and interpret it very accurately and intelligently.  Nothing wrong with this but you have to be open minded and willing to accept this alongside others who you may like more?

My biggest beef is with the Fazioli and that he mixed up the order and scrambled everything on his latest Chopin series.  Minor complaint in the big picture.  

Thanks for the comprehensive answer, it gives some color to the artist. And I agree with you it's good to have multiple version of a piece, it makes it much more interesting as sometimes the variations in interpretation I quite big. .....so I might give him a try, while I am going to also have some time to get into the new music I just bought.....