favorite performer/interpreter for each major composer?

[classicalnhiphop]

Who's playing do you enjoy for each particular composer?
for me its
bach: Glenn gould, periaha is also good
scarlatti: horowitz, i guess
Haydn and Mozart: don't listen to it too much
Beethoven: Claudio Arrau
Schubert: Richter
Schumann: Richter, Horowitz
Chopin: Rubinstein, pollini
Liszt: cziffra(nothing besides virtuosity), Horowitz and Richter (for his more emotionally engrossing stuff)
Brahms: not sure
Scriabin: Horowitz, richter, gilels
Rachmaninoff: Horowitz
Prokofiev: Richter

Ya, lots of richter and horowitz

[j_menz]

I can rarely narrow it down for a single piece - for a whole composer, I don't like my chances?

My most troublesome interpreter is Herbert von Karajan doing Beethoven. He is consistent, dazzlingly clear about what he wants, and can embrace the whole compass of Beethoven's work. Yet I don't like it. Pretty much always equally. Yet none of the interpreters I do like can manage the same unifying vision - they tend to be good in some places or pieces and missing in action elsewhere.

Curiously, if I pick up one of the Liszt symphony transcriptions to have a bit of a challenging sightread, it is von Karajan who haunts my sound image.

[cabbynum]

For over all, not individual pieces, just over all per composer.

Bach Glenn Gould
Mozart: Uchida
Beethoven: Barenboim
Chopin: Zimmerman or pollini. Zimmermans ballades have no equal in my opinion.
Liszt: lazar Berman
Alkan: Gibbons I honestly can't stand Hamelin in in comparison for alkan.
Rachmaninov: Olga Kern or Lugansky
Scriabin: Horowitz

[mo24rt]

Who's playing do you enjoy for each particular composer?
for me its
bach: Glenn gould, periaha is also good
scarlatti: horowitz, i guess
Haydn and Mozart: don't listen to it too much
Beethoven: Claudio Arrau
Schubert: Richter
Schumann: Richter, Horowitz
Chopin: Rubinstein, pollini
Liszt: cziffra(nothing besides virtuosity), Horowitz and Richter (for his more emotionally engrossing stuff)
Brahms: not sure
Scriabin: Horowitz, richter, gilels
Rachmaninoff: Horowitz
Prokofiev: Richter

Ya, lots of richter and horowitz

Right now. Glenn Gould. Bach Preludes and Fuges.

[winstonian3]

I would add Kissin to Liszt

[cabbynum]

I would add Kissin to Liszt

Most cases I would agree with you

[cuberdrift]

It seems as if there is no better interpreter for Bach than Gould...

[chicoscalco]

A very good teacher of mine once said that Glenn Gould was the best interpreter of Glenn Gould he had ever heard    I tend to agree that he is rather original with his bach works... I mean, we can hear a very big discrepancy between his interpretation of Bach and those of other pianists. But don't get me wrong, I don't know if I agree, and I absolutely LOVE Glenn.

[awesom_o]

But don't get me wrong, I don't know if I agree, and I absolutely LOVE Glenn.

His Beethoven was incredible. His Prokofiev was fantastic. His touch was pure magic.  His fingers could breathe wondrous life into the very tone itself... and they could also completely strangle the life out of the music.

It just depended on how he felt about the music!

[cabbynum]

I think if we heard him play scales it would be the most beautiful thing we could ever hear.

[jy_]

I like Angela Hewitt for Bach... although Rosalyn Tureck probably gives quite an accurate HIP .

What about Cortot for Chopin?

I think that Arrau's Liszt is nice, although I have only heard him play the transcendentals...

[g_s_223]

We should certainly find a place for Debussy, and for that repertoire I do like Gieseking and Michelangeli.

[chicoscalco]

For Ravel who would you say? I personally like samson françois, especially in the left hand concerto

[jy_]

I would say that philippe Cassard is pretty safe for impressionistic stuff... perhaps pascal roge too?