Name some pianists who are very good at accompanying singers.

[musicioso]

Hallo guys,

I need names of some pianists who are very good at accompanying singers. Doesnt matter what kind of music, as long as its piano and singer.

Thanks in advance

[amateurguy]

Graham Johnson immediately comes to mind.
He accompanied multiple singers in 39 volumes of Schubert Lieder in the Hyperion Schubert Edition.

[thesixthsensemusic]

Gerald Moore. That man was an absolute legend as an accompanying pianist.

[richard black]

Martin Katz is probably the finest living accompanist I've heard. Among dead ones, Michael Raucheisen was particularly good. Marc-André Hamelin is excellent, too, though he doesn't often do it.

[the89thkey]

I have no more names to give...the ones in the preceding posts were very good vocal accompanists.

[adari]

Glenn Gould:

[p2u_]

I need names of some pianists who are very good at accompanying singers. Doesnt matter what kind of music, as long as its piano and singer.

Sviatoslav Richter did a great job on that. He also had ample opportunity to learn what it is to accompany a singer since his wife, Nina Dorliac, was a singer. One example of his art (there is more on YouTube): Schreier - Richter: Gute Nacht from Schubert's Winterreise.

Paul

[the89thkey]

Sviatoslav Richter did a great job on that. He also had ample opportunity to learn what it is to accompany a singer since his wife, Nina Dorliac, was a singer. One example of his art (there is more on YouTube): Schreier - Richter: Gute Nacht from Schubert's Winterreise.

Paul

I'm not a fan of Richter as an accompanist to tell you the truth.

[ahinton]

Pianists who are not great "accompanists" - whether it be of singers or instrumentalists - or great chamber music players - are not the best of pianists. Ogdon, for example, did far too little chamber music playing or partnering of other soloists, but mon Dieu was he brilliant at it! Yonty Solomon was another such. It's about taking on the entire panoply of piano playing - the pianoply, if you like; some can, many either can't or don't or won't.

Best,

Alistair

[j_menz]

the pianoply, if you like

Oh Alistair, how could you! 

Otherwise, you're spot on.