Who do you consider the most gifted pianist in the last 100 years?
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All things considered, I say David Helfgott. Amazing talent.
It’s hard for me to name “the best”, because different pianists excel with different repetoires. Nobody could touch, for example, Vladimir Horowitz when it came to Rachmaninoff. In contrast, I would choose Philip Entremont over anyone for Saen-Saints. I think van Cliburn set the world on fire in the late 1950s at the Tckaikovsky competition. The best recording or performance of Brahms 2nd I ever heard was by little known Krystian Zimerman, yet many people would choose Alfred Brendel for Brahms.
And Glenn Gould for Bach, esp. The Goldberg Variations.
Horowitz knocks the socks off the more pyrotechnic Beethoven Sonatas. Listen to him play the Waldstein and feel your hair rise. Artur Schnabel runs a close second. His version
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