Best Pianists

BBC Music magazine polled 100 living pianists as to their all-time piano heroes -- including Brendel, Ashkenazy, Hewitt, Pires, Grimaud, Thibaudet.

Here are the top 20:

1. Rachmaninov'
2. Rubinstein
3. Horowitz
4. Richter
5. Cortot
6. Lipati
7. Schnabel
8. Gilels
9. Argerich
10. Michelangeli
11. Zimerman
12. Friedman
13. Lupu
14. Fischer
15. Kempff
16. Perahia
17. Gould
18. Gieseking
19. Hofmann
20. Arrau