Gkobe · CC BY-SA 4.0

A child prodigy who came to international fame while still a boy in the Soviet Union and grew into one of the era's most admired interpreters of the Romantic piano repertoire — Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff — carrying forward the lyricism and depth associated with the Russian piano tradition. He later became a British citizen and, in 2013, an Israeli one.