Your preferrred Rach 2 and 3 recordings

[chong777]

Who are your favourite artists for playing Rach 2 and 3?

Mine are:

Rach 2 : Earl Wild
Rach 3 : Horowitz and Martha Argerich

[mike_lang]

For me, it is definitely Richter for the 2nd.  For the 3rd, I could swing between Pletnev and Argerich - two very different, yet equally interesting temperaments.

[jakev2.0]

2: Moiseiwitsch, Rachmaninoff, Kapell, Barere
3: Cliburn, Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Cherkassky, Janis, Gilels

[arensky]

2:  Rachmaninoff, Kapell
3: Cliburn, Rachmaninoff, Horowitz,

For 3, Horowitz 1930 and add Argerich. Kapell's live 3rd from 1947 is also extraordinary.

[johngoh]

I think Lilya Zilberstein's recording of Rach 2 and 3 with BPO and Claudio Abbado is not that bad too. .

[hodi]

rach2: zimerman,richter
rach3: horowitz (1978 recording with zubin mehta), volodos, berezovsky

[thalberg]

Rach 2: Helene Grimaud
Rach 3: Leif Ove Andsnes

[dnephi]

2: Rachmaninoff, Van Cliburn
3: Horowitz, Alexis Weissenberg

[cforlana]

I like Ashkenazy for both 

[imbetter]

2: Volodos
3: Feltsman

[mikebechstein]

I have not heard Richter but judging by my appreciation of him and the accolades for his recording of No.2 then I’m sure I will enjoy it. (Did he ever record No.3?)

My favorite recording of No.2 so far is Ashkenazy/Previn. I have it coupled with a superb Rhap on Pag.

(By the way, my favorite Rhap on Pags are Rachmaninoff himself and, in a modern recording, Orozco/De Waart.)

For No.3 I will always adore Horowitz/Ormandy but I would not want to listen to it too often. For an overall choice it would have to be Horowitz/Reiner. There are many greats out there but (IMO) none is as complete as that one.

[cz4p32]

My favorite right now is Berezovsky's.  I have a fabulous video of the concert.