Ignace Tiegerman - How Many of Us Remember This Pianist?...

If the name Tiegerman does not register in your memory, do not feel alone.
I wrote about him a few years ago, and I do so now  simply because I feel the urgency to have his name re-surfaced once again.
The other day, I pulled out one of his recordings, one of a pitifully small supply of recordings he left us  - he never made a studio recording in Cairo, where he spent much of his adult life as a teacher.
However, a recording he made in Italy , probably in  1965, is the best quality  available to us. His other recordings were made  in locations such as apartments and homes of friends, students and admirers of this man, and an occasional broadcast remnant, in generally poor quality, of performances with the Cairo Philharmonic during  the 1950's.
Listen to this one good recording, a  performance of the wonderful Intermezzo Opus117, no. 2 of Brahms. For me, it is a towering example of what this man was capable of  doing. Personally, it ranks with any performance of this piece that I know of. The man, from the few recordings I have heard, was a great musician; and, sadly,  so few remember or even know his name today.
Imagine a rather frail man, beset by asthma, doing what he loved best, it seems; namely teaching, sharing his musical being with others. His formal performances were quite rare, it appears. The tragedy, for me, is that this man possessed genius, having so very much to say - and not one studio recording that I am aware of...
He taught at a music school in Cairo, which later became the Tiegerman Conservatory of Music -  a number of his students were members of the Egyptian royal family, who adored his entity and befriended him, engendering respect for his entity and gifts as a pedagogue.
When Farouk was overthrown by Nasser, and antisemitism became an issue in Egypt, the dangers to the Jew Tiegerman became a reality.  However, he survived the Nasser regime, miraculously, traveling in and out of Cairo, and died in the city he loved, in 1968.
As for his place in history, do know that Vladimir Horowitz more than once  made mention of Tiegerman as "the one man I feared during my formative years as my one true competitor."
Why not listen to Tiegerman and Brahms?  It may well cause a further  examination of a forgotten giant...