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This one should be fun.

So who do you think deserves the title of
The Best Classical Pianist

They can be from any classical era (baroque, classical, romantic, etc.) and give us some reasons supporting your choice aswell.

well, outside the stories and history passed on to us, we can't fully judge Liszt and Chopin, though I would guess Liszt could be. as far as those I've heard play, I have a hard time choosing my favorites, or even the best. when it comes to art, that's virtually impossible. There's Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, among the many of those that follow.

Check the archives, JaredR88, by doing a search (very top of the screen page). This topic has recently been discussed at length.

Regards,

....and not so recently discussed at length, and before that discussed at length, and before that...

Yes. This has been rehashed several times along the years...

Oh give the kid a break.

Check out Marc-Andre Hamelin and Nikolai Lugansky. Jonathan Powell is one of the giants of 20th century repertoire and he regularly performs new and unperformed material.

Sur l'autre main, Jared wins a cheese log and a toaster oven for being the 1,000,001th person to start a thread on this subject...

Joyeux Noel et toutes ces choses...

Auntie Lynn, you're funny trying to sound fancy by using french words, but these english expressions translated word for word in french make no sense at all... :| Nice try though !

Another wormhole for off-topic communication. I'm for it.

Is it French to leave a space before shouting marks and questioning marks ? Like that. I always think of Mapboy (aka M John Harrison) when I see those spaces.

Auntie Lynn, you might well have said : "D'autre part..." or "d'un autre côté..." for "on the other hand..." but I'm not sure what was meant by "toutes ces choses..." : "all those things ..."?

Mais, Joyeux Noël, à vous aussi, et à tous les francophones qui passent par ici!

Amitiés,

BruceD: I think she was trying to say: "Merry Christmas and all that stuff...", mais je ne suis pas sûr.

Joyeux Noël!

Ed

Thats more like it......

Bonnes fêtes à toutes et à tous

-Michael B.

Yes, you have to put a space before colons and question and exclamation marks in french. As your sharp eye noticed, I do it intuitively when I type in english.

Edit : I just noticed I made another mistake... The name of languages have to be capitalized in English, unlike in French!

Hägar the Horrible and Lucky Eddie are in a cafe in France. Hägar says to Eddie, "Tell him we want wine on the house." Eddie says, "Nous desirons vin sur la maison." In the last frame, they're being served wine on the shingled roof, and Eddie says, "It's hard to translate."

For my money, the best all around classical pianist is Murray Perahia.

Damz, not so much a sharp eye as the fact that I have been thinking about the subject of marks and spaces. Now I know more about it. Thank you.

French speech marks are like this to << >>. I had a french exam and got confused by those because, the teacher forgot to mention that small detail

Yup, in fact they are like that : « insert quotation here ».

I've seen those used in Finnish fiction, though ”this is perhaps the more common of the two correct styles.”

Hmmm, I don't have an absolute favorite. My 4 favorites are:

(in no particular order)
1. Evgeny Kissin
2. Marc-Andre Hamelin
3. Stephen Hough
4. Howard Shelley