The greatest pianists past and present
Posted by: EJS on 04 May 2012
Coinciding with the young pianists thread, I'm starting a thread to provide an overview of the best established pianists past and present. Let's hope we can do a better job than Universal with their Greatest Pianists of the 20th Century series!
Let me kick off with my two heroes:
Stephen Kovacevich
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Ivo Pogorelich
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Maurizio Pollini:
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Annie Fischer:
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Clara Haskil
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Claudio Arrau
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Maria Joao Pires
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Krystian Zimerman
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Angela Hewitt
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Murray Perahia
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Mitsuko Uchida
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Alfred Brendel
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Julius Katchen (here with Joseph Suk, brilliant violinist)
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Stephen Hough
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by EJS
Daniel Barenboim
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by Komet
Keith Emerson. Especially his playing on sides 3 and 4 of Welcome my friends...
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by Yippedidou
Are jazz pianist allowed? Michel Petrucciani, Kenny Barron, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Myra Melford are my personal top 5.
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by Hook
My favorite pianists also come from the world of jazz -- Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, and many others!
But if I had to pick only one, it would be McCoy Tyner. And not just for all of his work with Coltrane. His solo career was amazing, so rich and varied (post-bop, African and Latin rhythms, and even jazz/rock fusion, kind of like Miles).
Apolologies to EJ if he wanted to keep this a purely Classical thread!
Hook
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by Earwicker
Sviatoslav Richter
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by kuma
HOrowitz.
Gould.
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by kuma
Michelangeli.
Backhaus.
Kempff.
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by Florestan
Excellent! This is exactly where I was going anyway with the young pianists. The point being that everyone starts out young, naive and inexperienced. Compare a twenty year old pianist of a century ago with a twenty year old pianist of today and you still hear an eager musician trying to make music aligned with there own character and that of the style of the day/period.
Emil Gilels
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by Florestan
Edwin Fischer
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by Florestan
Myra Hess
