Michael Ponti

A longtime staple of the budget Vox label's catalog, pianist Michael Ponti specialized in unknown Romantic repertory. He also recorded mainstream works and was the first pianist to record the complete keyboard works of Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov. Although he was born in Germany, died there, and was partly trained there, Ponti was American. He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau (the city commonly referred to as Freiburg), Germany, on October 29, 1937. His father was a U.S. diplomat. The family soon moved to the U.S., and his mother also took American citizenship. Pon...