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....Richard Goode is very excellent with Mozart, right? ....and especially with Beethoven.
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I'll just name a couple that haven't been mentioned yet.
Living: Berezovsky
Passed: Sofronitsky
edit: Oops, someone did mention Sofronitsky. My bad.
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....Richard Goode is very excellent with Mozart, right? ....and especially with Beethoven. I of course own Goode's Beethoven sonata cycle, and while excellent, I do find it ever-so-slightly "dry." I haven't heard him live, but like Brendel whom I admire (who I also haven't heard in person, unfortunately,) I find there's a slight midi/robotic-like quality in their recordings at times. I'll be the first to blame the engineers and not the pianist. I'm convinced they are currently among the greatest Classical era interpreters. -Daneil
Currently working on:
-Poulenc Trois pièces
-Liszt Harmonies du Soir
-Bach/Brahms Chaconne for Left Hand
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Dead pianists:
-Godowsky
-Busoni
-De Larrocha
-Alkan
-Liszt
-Beethoven
-Gilels
-Ogdon
-Petri
-Ronald Smith
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^^^ Wow, I didn't know that everyone else wanted a time machine so badly, too! Let's get cracking PW and build it! 
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Oh, and Bach and Mozart. 
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Mark C --
Good call on Lupu (gorgeous Schubert and Brahms) and Schub (who looks like he wandered in off the set for "Revenge of the Nerds" but played the finest rendition of Chopin's E major Scherzo I've ever heard). And as for Chico, all I can say is:
Groucho (in "Coconuts"): . . . and over here we're going to build a viaduct.
Chico: Vy a duck? Vy a no chicken?
AND he could play the piano like -- well, like no one else.
Phil Bjorlo
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Lisitsa (purely for the musical aspect :D)
Pollini
Argerich
Zimerman
Bozhanov
Schiff
Barenboim
Volodos
Sokolov (only because people seem to think extremely highly of him, I haven't listened to many recordings by him)
Leslie Howard (I'd like to see him perform the late Liszt works and maybe his own set of 25 etudes)
If you allow me a bonus, I'd love to see Aimi Kobayashi live too.. her Op 10 No 4 blew me away!
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Sokolov, yes that's most definitely another one!!
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Aside from Chopin and Liszt:
Scarlatti
Gottschalk
Bizet
von Bulow
Albeniz
Siloti
Joplin
Is that 10?
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Hoffmann
Liszt
Cziffra
Richter
Sokolov
Alkan
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Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Glenn Gould
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....Richard Goode is very excellent with Mozart, right? ....and especially with Beethoven. I of course own Goode's Beethoven sonata cycle, and while excellent, I do find it ever-so-slightly "dry." I haven't heard him live, but like Brendel whom I admire (who I also haven't heard in person, unfortunately,) I find there's a slight midi/robotic-like quality in their recordings at times. I'll be the first to blame the engineers and not the pianist. I'm convinced they are currently among the greatest Classical era interpreters. -Daneil To support your thought - although I had some recordings (and thought they were respectable but rather dull), I had really had no idea of what Brendel was doing with Beethoven until I heard him live, and then I finally understood what the fuss was about. It was some of the most amazing music-making I ever expect to hear. But hearing him live was not guaranteed bliss for everyone - I know of other people who heard him live and just couldn't sync up with what he was doing. I've heard Goode live too, and the playing was, for the most part, several notches more involving than his recordings. But I will say, it did seem to get a bit facile here and there. Still, definitely worth the price of admission.
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Of the living pianists I have not yet heard live, here is a random list of ten I would bother to cross the street to go hear:
Eliso Virsaladze
Anne Queffelec
Nelson Freire
Anton Nel
Jeremy Denk
Dezső Ránki
Enrico Pace
Matti Raekallio
Michele Campanella
Mirian Conti
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I'm in the fortunate position of having seen & heard live almost all the pianists whose playing I admire (including a few no longer with us, like Michelangeli). But to list those still living whom I'll always have time for, in no particular order: Mikhail Pletnev Yuja Wang (next year!) Andrei Gavrilov Ivo Pogorelich Maurizio Pollini Arcadi Volodos Denis Matsuev Lang Lang Krystian Zimerman Marc-André Hamelin Grigory Sokolov Oops! Is that 11?  Of the pianists who lived during my lifetime but who I never got to hear live, only Sviatoslav Richter, John Ogdon, Vladimir Horowitz and Earl Wild would have been on my list.
If music be the food of love, play on!
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Since I hadn't paid attention to Sokolov's recording, I went and looked. I AM BLOWN AWAY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UJsAN5FNBM&feature=related Probably the best performance of this work that I've heard on youtube. Amazing stuff! I can now see why people want to see Sokolov live.
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ASAP:
Argerich
Lisitsa
Kocsis
Kissin
Hamelin
Time machine:
Liszt
Liszt
Liszt
Liszt
Liszt
Beethoven
Saint-Saëns
C. Schumann
Bach
Chopin
Piano is hard work from beginning to forever.
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I think the post might benefit from elucidation.
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If i had a time machine i'd most defintely traverse time to see the Liszt v Thalberg contest.
All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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