Great Pianists of the 20th Century: The Complete Edition (FLAC)

Great Pianists of the 20th Century was a 200-CD box set released by Philips Records in 1999 and sponsored by Steinway & Sons.

The box set comprised 100 volumes featuring 72 pianists of the 20th century, each volume with 2 cds and a booklet about the life and work of the featured pianist. The set contains a variety of composers from different eras, from Baroque to Contemporary classical. The material was the result of a collaborative association between Philips (who had access to the Polygram Records back catalogue) and a number of other labels, notably EMI Classics, as no single label possessed a representative set of recordings for every pianist considered to be significant. Material from Warner Classics and Sony Classics was also used.

The majority of the pianists feature on one set only, with sixteen appearing on a second set. Seven artists (Arrau, Brendel, Gilels, Horowitz, Kempff, Richter and Rubinstein) are featured across three sets.

100 2-CD volumes (in the two sets) include: Byron Janis II William Kapell Julius Katchen Julius Katchen II Wilhelm Kempff Wilhelm Kempff II Wilhelm Kempff III Evgeny Kissin Zoltan Kocsis Stephen Kovacevich Stephen Kovacevich II Alicia de Larrocha Alicia de Larrocha II Josef & Rosina Lhévinne Dinu Lipatti Radu Lupu Nikita Magaloff Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli II Benno Moiseiwitsch Ivan Moravec John Ogdon John Ogdon II Ignacy Jan Paderewski Murray Perahia Maria Joao Pires Mikhail Pletnev Maurizio Pollini Maurizio Pollini II Andre Previn Sergei Rachmaninoff Sviatoslav Richter Sviatoslav Richter II Sviatoslav Richter III Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein II Arthur Rubinstein III András Schiff Artur Schnabel Rudolf Serkin Vladimir Sofronitsky Solomon Rosalyn Tureck Rosalyn Tureck II Mitsuko Uchida Andre Watts Alexis Weissenberg Earl Wild Maria Yudina Krystian Zimerman