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Title: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: mikebechstein on November 09, 2006, 08:19:02 AM: I am trying to compile a list of what people think is the single greatest classical piano recording of all time (for example Lipatti playing Alborada Del Gracioso.)

Please post your choice.

I’m hoping to then collect most of these recordings.

Thanks

(I’m Sorry if a string like this has been done before but I’m fairly new here.)
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: pianistimo on November 09, 2006, 08:21:45 AM: barry douglas - pictures at an exhibition (much like stokowski's rendition - a few years earlier. quite grand).

composers playing their own works:

poulenc playing poulenc, etc.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: nicco on November 09, 2006, 09:38:06 AM: Leif Ove Andsnes - Liszt Dante Sonata

are you aware that you have made the exact same topic before?

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,21380.0.html
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: mikebechstein on November 09, 2006, 10:41:26 AM: I remember posting it but the next day when I went to check it I couldn't find it. I must be blind. I thought admin had deleted it by mistake!

Sorry if I wasted anybody's time second time around.

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Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: mikebechstein on November 09, 2006, 10:57:47 AM: I see now that it was moved to Misceleneous where it is still running.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: ihatepop on November 09, 2006, 12:14:44 PM: Quote from: mikebechstein on November 09, 2006, 10:41:26 AM
Sorry if I wasted anybody's time second time around.

Thats Ok, accidents do happen. Besides, I haven't seen the original topic before. This thread will act as a immediate link to the real thread. ;)

ihatepop
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: pies on November 09, 2006, 10:34:07 PM: Powell when he records Opus Clav
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: bachfan87 on November 09, 2006, 11:15:38 PM: Lipatti playing Chopin's 3rd sonata. He has the most perfect crystalline touch!
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: Waldszenen on November 10, 2006, 03:17:30 AM: Kapell playing Chopin's 3rd Sonata

Arrau playing Liszt's Waldesrauschen
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: gruffalo on November 10, 2006, 04:47:57 PM: Quote from: nicco on November 09, 2006, 09:38:06 AM
Leif Ove Andsnes - Liszt Dante Sonata

Is this better than cziffra's live performance? just want to know because im in search of more Dante recordings, but nobody elses that i hear seem to match cziffra.

Gruff
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: nicco on November 10, 2006, 09:36:21 PM: Quote from: gruffalo on November 10, 2006, 04:47:57 PM
Is this better than cziffra's live performance? just want to know because im in search of more Dante recordings, but nobody elses that i hear seem to match cziffra.

Gruff

Andsnes is unmatched in all aspects of this piece. I have heard 7 different performers. no one is even close. not even cziffra.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: gruffalo on November 11, 2006, 08:35:43 PM: Quote from: nicco on November 10, 2006, 09:36:21 PM
Andsnes is unmatched in all aspects of this piece. I have heard 7 different performers. no one is even close. not even cziffra.

wow, i must get this then.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: cmg on November 13, 2006, 05:17:21 PM: Joyce Hatto's Prokofiev "War Sonatas."
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: burstroman on November 15, 2006, 02:14:11 AM: Arrau - Brahms' Handel Variations.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: houseofblackleaves on November 15, 2006, 03:05:59 PM: Ashk Prokofiev's Second PC

I wouldn't consider it best of all time, but I'm debating whether it's the best Ashk recording or not.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: beethoven2 on November 15, 2006, 11:26:04 PM: Seine Grossten playing Chopin's Polonaise in A flat Major
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: jre58591 on November 16, 2006, 12:46:07 AM: Quote from: houseofblackleaves on November 15, 2006, 03:05:59 PM
Gutierrez Prokofiev's Second PC
fixed.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: pies on November 16, 2006, 03:44:39 AM: Quote from: cmg on November 13, 2006, 05:17:21 PM
Joyce Hatto's Prokofiev "War Sonatas."
I need to hear Hatto's. Of the many recordings of the 6th sonata that I've heard, none satisfy me.
Title: Re: The single greatest classical piano recording of all time?
Post by: gruffalo on November 16, 2006, 10:54:25 AM: Quote from: nicco on November 10, 2006, 09:36:21 PM
Andsnes is unmatched in all aspects of this piece. I have heard 7 different performers. no one is even close. not even cziffra.
ok, i just got andsnes' liszt CD. his liszt is great and the Dante is brilliant. i still dont think it beats cziffra. have you heard his live one? his studio recording isnt that good, its the live one that needs to be heard.

Gruff