Glenn Gould, Murray Perahia and Vladimir Ashkenazy all come to mind.
If you want sad, then the middle section (adagio) from around 11 mins 30 below might well be the most sublime piece of music ever recorded.
Great classical pianists
Alexandra Dovgan is the pianist of her generation.
In the last century there was Richter. Today Trifonov. Now a new phenom. What is it in the Russian water that produces such giants of the keyboard?
We enjoy all great pianists. Rubinstein, Pollini, Argerich, Backhaus, Kempf, Michelangeli, Schnabel, Pogorelic, Gilels. Please add your favorite to this embarrassment of pianistic riches. But there is primus inter pares.