Great classical pianists

Some giants of the piano taught and plays concerts more than they were recorded...

One of the greatest pianist of the last century is certainly Heinrich Neuhaus ...

This documentary explain why :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCfrtFuYAc&t=53s

here he play Chopin concerto no 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_73gQr6OQ

Here the master of Lupu, Gilels and Richter and of many other great pianists play Brahms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrQUJ4okM4

Here the master in Rachmaninoff :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so0UgBBR2VQ

He perfectly master not only tone colors and rythm but the expression power at a height reach only by a few as Sofronitsky and Nyiregyházi...

Power of expression test is done when we compare any pianist interpretation of Liszt Mephisto waltzes for example ... Nyiregyházi here transcend anyone in powerful madness expression ....

Richter cannot even compare to Nyiregyházi

Richter - 0:00 Nyiregyházi - 3:40

Comparison of Sviatoslav Richter and Ervin Nyiregyházi playing the same passage from Liszt's 'Vallée d'Obermann'.

@esarhaddon 

You actually put Krall in the same category as Petrucciani ? !  

Don't know how to respond. 

Andras Schiff from Bach to Beethoven, Horowitz for anything thereafter. Obviously Neuhaus as the founder of the Russian School deserves a special place and then there always is Argerich, seldom reached, never surpassed.

My prefered version of the Bach well tempered klavier is first Feltsman and second Schiff ...I enjoy the two but with a preference here ...

The Russian is more balanced between perfection and expression ...😊 So impressive the self controlled german could be , and he is ... This Schiff  interpretation is the top of his career ... But Feltsman give something more  than perfection...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4271Rm9TSU&list=PLTL_aYkQ5li7bET5sqlPJVRqWEF2JVCJZ

Feltsman is also my favorite Goldberg interpretation because he is irresistible in joy expression and we feel as if he spontaneously improvise the piece ... ...For me it exceed Gould mannerism so interesting Gould can be and it is ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIujuXIwQms&list=PLr0MsaDpKsY-biupbCUhZf55V3rNEzU_v

@mahgister 

you certainly know your Bach! Schiff is actually Czech