Top ten musicians of all time

[Beef Oven!]

There's Daniel Barenboim & then there's everyone else. An amazing man

[pastoralguy]

1) Ida Haendel
2) Yehudi Menuhin (A Great man as well as a great musician)
3) Jascha Heifetz
4) Sir John Barbirolli
5) David Oistrakh (and his son, Igor)
6) Henri Temianka
7) Sir Alexander Gibson (in his younger years)
8) Alicia Weilerstein
9) Edwin Paling
10) Martha Argerich

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

He conducts Elgar well too.

[cloughie]

He conducts Elgar well too.

Who does?

[Tony Halstead]

Who does?

Presumably Daniel Barenboim .... keep up, cloughie!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That was who I meant.

[EdgeleyRob]

Jimi Hendrix
Chris Squire
Adrian Boult
Richard Hickox
Jacqueline du Pré
Ravi Shankar
Sviatoslav Richter
Kathleen Ferrier
Yehudi Menuhin
Charles Valentin Alkan (no,I never saw him,but I believe he could play a bit).

[cloughie]

Presumably Daniel Barenboim .... keep up, cloughie!

Excuse me for having my doubts - his LPO recordings of the Symphonies in the 70s had very mixed reviews.

[cloughie]

Jimi Hendrix
Chris Squire
Adrian Boult
Richard Hickox
Jacqueline du Pré
Ravi Shankar
Sviatoslav Richter
Kathleen Ferrier
Yehudi Menuhin
Charles Valentin Alkan (no,I never saw him,but I believe he could play a bit).

Anyway composers are musicians are they not?

[Petrushka]

Herbert von Karajan
Leonard Bernstein
Mstislav Rostropovich
Daniel Barenbom
Arturo Toscanini
Gustav Mahler
Alfred Brendel
Bernard Haitink
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Yehudi Menuhin

[Honoured Guest]

Statististically, it's almost certain that no more than one of the top ten musicians of all time have yet been born.

[Bryn]

Statististically, it's almost certain that no more than one of the top ten musicians of all time have yet been born.

What makes you think there will be any humans left to be top ten musicians once global warming (effectively left unchecked) gets a real hold?

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Statististically, it's almost certain that no more than one of the top ten musicians of all time have yet been born.

"What do you think of it so far?"

[Madame Suggia]

Jascha Horenstein
Kirill Kondrashin
Martha Argerich
Bernard Haitink
Julian Bream
Pablo Casals
Ivry Gitlis
Vladimir Jurowski
Emmanuelle Haim
Pierre Fournier

[kea]

Victor Borge x10