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I would like to know what's your Top 5 pianists ever...in any kind of music.
At this time i would choose:
1- Chopin
2- Claude Debussy
3- Beethoven
4- Sergei Rachmaninoff
5- Thelonious Monk
"Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts." - Frank Zappa
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You might be interested to read this thread from just a short time back.
Du holde Kunst...
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Chopin. I love the way he plays his own stuff.
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Thanks currawong, i'm new here...
"Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts." - Frank Zappa
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You really, really need to restate the question. Because nobody living today has ever heard Chopin or Beethoven play the piano.
Are you asking about composers for the piano? If so, that's an entirely different question.
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Originally posted by GreenRain:
Chopin. I love the way he plays his own stuff. 
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons.
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Gould
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Gould
In that order:)
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1. Rubinstein
2. Argerich
3. Horowitz
4. Ax
5. Richter
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Faves whom I've heard playing (mostly on CD)
1. Artur Rubinstein
2. Sergie Rachmaninov
3. Vladimir Horowitz
4. Vladimir Ashkenazy
5. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
IMHO.
"Persevere,
do not only practice your art,
but endeavor also to fathom it's inner meaning;
it deserves this effort."
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
Piano: Yamaha U3E
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1]My Mother.
2]Pope Benedict XV1
3]Sylvan Zingg
4]Abert Ammons
5]Vladimir Horowitz
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1. Rubinstein 2. Horowitz 3. Pletnev 4. Arrau 5. Keith Emerson (I just had to throw that in for old time's sake...  )
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1. LL
2. LL
3. LL
4. LL
5. LL
(Sorry, I can't help that LL spelled backwards still reads LL.)
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I'm Gould fan too ... IMHO no one should try Bach again. If you let me pick another 4, they would be Horowitz, Arrau, Gilels, Kissin ... names not in specific order.
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I guess I'll update my entry in the thread Currawong linked to. Horowitz Rubinstein Gilels Arrau Cliburn  But by no means is the other list defunct; I like 'em all! :p
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons.
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Gilels
Rubinstein
Ashkenazy
Richter
Argerich
in that order..i think
Currently working on:
---Bach French Suite No.1
---Czerny,Cramer Etudes
---Haydn Sonata Hob.XVI/34
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In order:
1- Ian Pace
2- Marc-Andre Hamelin
3- Vladimir Horowitz
4- Martha Argerich
5- Sviatoslav Richter
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Originally posted by William Penafiel:
1- Ian Pace
2- Marc-Andre Hamelin
3- Vladimir Horowitz
4- Martha Argerich
5- Sviatoslav Richter ^Fair enough, no arguments. But I heard Andsnes recently... he just fried my innards. I was in awe. Of course he is a gorgeous looking man, but that sound... it is unlike anything in recent memory. And what musicianship... I shudder at the thought of it all...
Jason
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at the moment I have to go with
Richter
Horowitz
Ashkenazy
Zimerman
Kissin
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Gary Graffman
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Evgeny Kissin
Oscar Levant
Olga Kern
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I already listed 5, but I must add Alexis Weissenberg.
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