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Murray Perahia, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Vladimir Horowitz, Aimi Kobayashi
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Not "top"(what does THAT mean?) but some favorites:
Ignaz Friedman
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Gyorgy Cziffra
Leon Fleisher
and--in the young whippersnapper category:
Vassily Primakov
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1. Bill Evans
2. Herbie Hancock
3. Chick Corea
4. Michel Camilo
5. Jimmy Smith (B3, but close enough:))
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Originally posted by JazzPianoEducator:
4. Michel Camilo
Wow, that's interesting. Camilo has great ascending octaves in his right hand -which he struts out at every opportunity- but otherwise I'm at a loss to find anything of interest in his -admittedly- efficient piano playing. Corea, Evans and Hancock IMHO should not be mentioned along with Camilo. That does them a disservice. Oh, and you forgot Fats Waller... 
Jason
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Richter Gilels Rubinstein Argerich
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Originally posted by liebestrauma:
No particular order, and these are just the ones that come to mind immediately:
Martha Argerich
Mikhail Pletnev
Murray Perahia
Angela Hewitt OMGOSH YES! Pletnev - the best.... and Chopin of course.
Currently working on:
Bach Prelude and Fugue no. 1 C maj
Mozart Sonate in A major K331
Chopin Prelude Opus 32. No. 2
Chopin Ballade 4 Opus 52
Debussy The Engulfed Cathedral
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1. Larrocha
2. Rubinstein
3. Arrau
4. Sokolov
5. Richter
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oh and I totally forgot about Alicia de Larrocha, and Helene Grimaud, and Keith Jarrett, and Earl Wild... can't fit 'em all in! And I have to confess to having a soft spot for Lang Lang - I feel the same way about Liszt's music, it's either sublimely beautiful or circus music.
spiegel im spiegel
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Originally posted by Tate:
No Richard Kastle fans ? Seize this traitor! Clap him in irons!  If there is any pianist I hate, it's that pompous jerk Richard Kastle. I'll even take LL over that galoot any day of the week.
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons.
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I cannot give you just 5, but I can give you 10.
All time - deceased:
Rubinstein
Horowitz
Gilels
Rachmaninov
Richter
Kempff
Sofronitsky
Bolet
Arrau
Hofmann
Still with us:
Argerich
Perahia
Pollini
Ashkenazy
Brendel
Goode
Lugansky
Sokolov
De Larrocha
Kissin
And up and coming....
Blechacz
And best of the "undiscovered"
Prats
And last but not least - the one I should be horse-whipped for forgetting in the first group above:
Michelangeli
Amateur Pianist and raconteur.
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This is an update to my previous list to include those pianists currently alive. These five are not in a particular order of preference.
Van Cliburn
Zoltan Kocsis
Leif Ove Andsnes
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Valentina Lisitsa (I'm captivated watching her play her 1925 Bosenforfer 275)
Charles R. Walter, Model 1500 (2009 w/Renner action), Satin Ebony
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Horowitzian
Rubinstein
Richter
Argerich
lang lang!!
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Has anyone mentioned Ivan Moravec? No better Chopin player alive to my ears.
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Here he is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL4ChhWLykk i didn't know this guy ... will listen to ity when i get home
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Not necessarily in this order...
Art Tatum...how many hands did he really use? Definitely more than 2.
Gould...i LIKE the humming. boo on the engineers for editing it out.
Elton John...great glasses, too.
Brendel...the 'Sean Kelley' of piano
Horowitz...Vlad the fingerer
swimmerone
1946 Steinway S
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Angela Hewitt
Emmanuel Ax
Idil Biret(specialized in Chopin)
Murray Perahia
William Joseph
The Others who I love to listen: Lang Lang, Pletnev, Kissin, Volga Kern, Gabriela Montero.
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No way I could put them in order, but they are
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vladimir Horowitz
Valentina Lisitsa
Martha Argerich
Louis Lortie
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1) W.A.Mozart
2) L.V Beethoven
3) Elena Mouzalas
4) Chopin
5) Bach
Currently working on...
Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66
Mozart - Piano Sonata in E flat K.282
Liszt - Romance in E minor "O pourquoi donc" S.196
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Originally posted by justice:
Horowitzian
Rubinstein
Richter
Argerich
lang lang!!
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear weapons.
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