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Rock! Another vote for Borge!

Sorry guys been away for past few days but finally....


THE BIG UPDATE!

DRUM ROLL PLEASE............


1. Sviatoslav Richter - 201
2. Vladimir Horowitz - 194
3. Sergei Rachmaninoff - 126
4. Emil Gilels - 113
5. Glenn Gould - 97
6. Martha Argerich - 79
7. Arthur Rubinstein - 68
8. Claudio Arrau - 62
9. Grigory Sokolov - 58
10. Arturo Benedetti Michelangelli - 54

I'll make a list of top runners up as well that are close to edging the list if they have some more votes:

Kristian Zimmerman - 38
Georgy Cziffra - 38
Evgeny Kissin - 37
Alfred Brendel - 32
Maurizio Pollini - 30
Alfred Cortot, William Kapell - 28
Cyprian Katsaris - 26
Artur Schnabel, Josef Hoffmann - 22
Victor Borge - 20 (for derlux)


Anyhow, top 10 seems like a good and accurate list to me, in fact the top 4 or 5 are identical to how I had my top!

I Got 6/10 in top ten (Richter and Horowitz in top 2 as well)

and 2 in the close edging list.

Very happy with the list, wouldn't be able to create such a great list myself (I couldn't think of any more people who were good as well, but I see you could!).

Richter congratulations!

Did he die in 1997? One of my CD's says he died in 1982 in Munich, the other says he is alive, but Decca says he died in 1997 .

He's still alive.


(deluded Richter fan)
I can dream can't I? :rolleyes:

Haha, you are not alone.

He died in August 1997.

This is really hard. There's just so many different things to like in different pianists that its really quite impossible to give a hard ranking. But here's a try anyway.

1. Horowitz
2. Richter
3. Sofronitzky
4. Pletnev
5. Sokolov
6. Ivan Moravec
7. Michelangeli
8. Esteban Sanchez
9. Argerich
10.Gilels

And there're so many others I love and respect: Feinberg, Rachmaninoff, Nelson Friere, Zimmerman, Cortot, Cziffra, Arrau, Cherkassky, Nikolayeva...the list is endless!

Victor Borge - 20 (for derlux)
*laughs* Thank you.

1. Tea Kalandadze
2. Dubravka Tomsic

I'm suprised that no one heard of these two great pianists.

3.Cyprien Katsaris
4. Martha Argerich
5.Krystian Zimerman
6.Evgeny Kissin
7.Alexis Weissenberg
8.Glenn Gould
9.Alfred Brendel
10. LangLang?

To Derulux:
You are a real man! I don't care what you said right or wrong, but whatever who attacks you, you are always smile and respond with humour. That's really good. We don't like some messages contain irrational arguements or to blame others, do we?

To Derulux:
You are a real man! I don't care what you said right or wrong, but whatever who attacks you, you are always smile and respond with humour. That's really good. We don't like some messages contain irrational arguements or to blame others, do we?
Thank you for the kind words. I do try to maintain my sense of humor at all times. It is the only thing that keeps me sane. And I always try to maintain my perspective on life: my time here is severely limited, so why not use it for the benefit of others, instead of demoralizing everyone I come across? And if I can make people smile or laugh in the process, then, as Victor Borge would say, "That is my only reward. The rest goes to the government."

Now, do me a favor and vote for Victor! "V for Victor!" :p

Never seen a thread go downhill so quickly

It would almost be excusable if Richter and Horowitz were actually AHEAD of Lang Lang on the list...but to suggeset Lang Lang is greater than them.............................................

It's only his opinion, Heretic.

Maybe he hasn't heard Richter or Horowitz. Maybe he has, and he doesn't personally connect with their styles.

This is true, but would Lang Lang even be considered 20th century pianist??? More like 21st century..

Well, I'd say he's late 20th and early 21st.

I'm not sure I would consider him one of the "best" of the 20th century, but he might very well become one of the "best" of the 21st. Who knows? He's still very young (23? 24?)

Well his (in)famous "breakthrough" occurred in 1999 when he substituted for andre watts so I suppose that puts him in the last year of 20th century but he didn't accomplish anything in 20th century...


on a side note though..I just read something interesting about him. People have been marvelling lately at those child prodigies that played some single Chopin etude at 14 or whatnot. It says here Lang Lang performed all 24 Chopin Etudes at age 13!

Where is 'here'? (just out of curiosity, because I might read it if it's on the web)

I'd believe that. He's certainly got chops.

wikipedia

Well, I think if you like piano, you should heard of Richter or Horowitz. They were not in my list, that because I've got their CDs, but the quality of record is not very clear, so I might put them in 11 and 12. And Lang Lang might not belong to 20th, but he is really great in his age, I think we should judge by their skill or talent, not age. By the way, I am female.

I think he is great. Sonata can have her own opinion . Although I won't put him in my list, I can understand why people are putting him in the list. He is not THAT bad, come on...

I also understand why people dislike him, but he is so critisesed, he just doesn't deserve it. Keep in mind that he is still young and I think in the future he might ever grow up , no matter how many centuries it's going to take .

Why are people so harsh on a 23 (24?) year old who still has to develop his "true" musicality?