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The top 20 pianists

Each month on the YourClassical Favorites stream, we host a vote and a countdown of your musical favorites.

Earlier in October, we asked you to tell us your favorite pianists. We've tallied the results, and on Thursday, Oct. 20, starting at 10 a.m. Central Time on our Favorites stream, we'll count down the top 20 favorite pianists — as voted by you.

Here are the results!

20) Yuja Wang
19) Mitsuko Uchida
18) Andre Watts
17) Andras Schiff
16) Evgeny Kissin
15) Alessio Bax
14) Claudio Arrau
13) Lang Lang
12) Emil Gilels
11) Daniel Barenboim
10) Murray Perahia
9) Alfred Brendel
8) Sviatoslav Richter
7) Sergei Rachmaninoff
6) Emanuel Ax
5) Glenn Gould
4) Artur Rubinstein
3) Alicia de Larrocha
2) Vladimir Horowitz
1) Martha Argerich

See the Twitter feed featuring the #Top20Pianists hashtag below.

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