Best Pianists To Record the Masters?

[starstruck5]

I don't know if anyone has posted a thread like this before - but anyway - If you could choose one pianist to record as many works you wanted by the following composers - who would you choose? The pianist has to have lived at a time when recording was possible - also the audio quality of the time stands.

Here are my choices:

J.S Bach         ---   Rachmaninoff!               Liszt        ---   Hamelin
Scarlatti         ----  Agerich                       Chopin      ---   Rubinstein
Haydn            ----  Schiff                          Schumann  ---  Radu Lupu
Mozart           ----   Brendel                       Debussy     ---- Arrau
Beethoven      -----  Backhaus                    Ravel          --- Lipatti
Schubert        -----  Radu Lupu                   Scriabin     ---- Hamelin
Brahms           -----  Rubinstein                   Prokofiev   ---- Gavrilov
Mendelssohn   -----   Livia Rev                     Bartok      ---- Schiff

[casioman]

Surely you have forgotten

Rachmaninov ----- Horowitz

[starstruck5]

Surely you have forgotten

Rachmaninov ----- Horowitz

Major oops!  I love Rachmaninoff - but

Rachmaninoff ----Rachmaninoff

[pianoplayjl]

How about Liszt----Cziffra?
Cziffra had a knack for Liszt.

[49410enrique]

i'd personally like to hear and see more Prokofiev by Misha Dichter, if this is any indication of what he can do with the other works, it would be a great addition to the record:

https://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com/2009/04/misha-dichter-plays-prokofiev-7th.html

or direct:
sigh...if only in we could get 5 camera hd coolness.

[starstruck5]

i'd personally like to hear and see more Prokofiev by Misha Dichter, if this is any indication of what he can do with the other works, it would be a great addition to the record:

https://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com/2009/04/misha-dichter-plays-prokofiev-7th.html

or direct:
sigh...if only in we could get 5 camera hd coolness.

Checked this out - Had never heard of Misha Dichter to be honest!  This is quite impressive playing . I did consider Lazar Berman  but I feel Gavrilov is still the best choice.

[49410enrique]

Checked this out - Had never heard of Misha Dichter to be honest!  This is quite impressive playing . I did consider Lazar Berman  but I feel Gavrilov is still the best choice.

thanks for checking it out.  yeah i freakin love his playing, i haven't really had much of a chance to listen to the other "Dichter" his wife, but from what I've read, also very accomplished and a fine pianist in every sense of the word.

i would add a composer and pianist to the list, Gottschalk - Cecile Licad, her interpretations and mastery of his works are pretty incredible.

[yodaofpiano]

J.S. Bach----Wanda Landowska

[pianoplayjl]

Scriabin----horowitz

[pianoplayjl]

An honourable mention: Alkan----Hamelin

[philb]

 Ravel       --- Nobody (The silence is probably better...) 

[pianoplayjl]

I liked Argerich's recording of Scarbo.