all-time best recordings?

[jasonmarg]

this is a cool forum! i just found it. anyway, i want to know what are some of your favorite recordings of specific piano pieces, especially the ones that you think are worth taking the time to seek out and listen to- i'll start:

mussorgsky, pictures at an exhibition by maria yudina
beethoven, sonata op. 26 by maria yudina
schubert, sonata in Bb by walter haupzig
goldberg variations by maria tipo
scriabin, etude op. 42 in c sharp minor by horowitz
bach-busoni chaconne by demidenko
rachmaninoff etudes-tableaux (any of them) by richter

thanks!

[maxy]

any live Cziffra... particularly Totentanz, Grieg concerto, Tchaik 1, Après une lecture de Dante, Spanish Rhapsodie (Liszt).

Let's hope Koji will contribute to this topic!

[pseudopianist]

I feel the need to say: IN MY OWN OPINION:

Alfred Cortot - Chopins 10/3
Horowitz - Rachmaninov 3rd Concerto (1951 recording)
Idil Biret - Chopin Ballade 1 (I just love her playing, you people can say what ever you want)
Idil Biret - Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2 movements 2
Cziffra - Liszt Ville de este
Willhelm Kempf - Beethoven Cello Sonata in A major Op 69 first movement
Martha Argerich - Chopin Cello Sonata 2nd movement

[Eusebius_dk]

A few more...

Dinu Lipatti - Ravel: Alborada del grazioso
Dinu Lipatti - Chopin: Barcarolle
Glenn Gould - Bach: Goldberg Variations (the late one - sorry, Jason)
Glenn Gould (with Bernstein) - Bach: Piano Concerto no. 1
Emil Gilels (with Jochum) - Brahms: Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2
Alfred Cortot - Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2
Vladimir Horowitz (with Toscanini) - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 (1943 recording, not the 1941 recording you can get anywhere)

[upright]

Recordings worth getting/listening to, most of which are widely regarded as benchmarks.


Goldberg variations Gould 1955

Debussy Gieseking

Islamey Katchen

Grieg Lyric pieces Gilels

Blue Danube Lhevinne

Rachmaninoff Concerti 1 & 2 Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody Ashkenazy/Previn

Rachmaninoff Midsummers Night dream Moiseiwitsch

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 Ashkenazy

Czerny Variations on a theme Horowitz

Horowitz transcriptions Horowitz

Liszt Tannhauser Bolet

Liszt Sonata Bolet (for majesty), Argerich (for virtuosity)

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies + spanish rhapsody, Grand Galop  Cziffra

Liszt Mephisto Waltz Kissin

Chopin Fantasie Solomon

Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 Cliburn especially for slow mvt

Bach Partita No. 1 Lipatti

Alborada del gracioso Lipatti (his own favourite recording)

Bach-Busoni Chaconne Michelangeli (one italian talking to another italian through Bach)

Bach Italian Concerto Michelangeli

Ravel Piano Concerto No. Michelangeli

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 Michelangeli

Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Michelangeli

Brahms Paganini Variations Michelangeli

Brahms Ballades Michelangeli

Scarlatti Michelangeli

Schumann Kinderscenen Annie Fischer

Schumann Fantasy Richter (Fiorentino is supposedly better but I haven't heard it)

Prokofiev Suggestion Diabolique Richter

Beethoven Symphony 5 & 7 Kleiber

Chopin Nocturnes Rubinstein

Chopin-Godowsky Hamelin

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No. 8, 23, 29, 30, 32 Serkin

Waldstein Gulda

Tempest Brendel on vox

Albeniz De Larrocha (have not heard Hamelin yet)

Granados De Larrocha

Rachmaninov Polka Cherkassky

Gershwin-Wild transcriptions Earl wild

Mozart Sonatas Uchida (she has the most refined touch)

Schubert Piano Sonata No. 21 Kovacevich

Schubert Piano Sonata No. 20 Andsnes

Chopin Op. 10/1 Argerich

Chopin Op. 25/6 Anievas

Chopin Sonata No. 2 & preludes - Argerich

Moszkowski Etude in F Yundi Li

Grieg Piano Concerto Andsnes/Jansons

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1 Demidenko

[pita bread]

Liszt Totentanz - Cziffra (live)

Scriabin Sonata #9 "black mass" - orchestrated by George Friedrich Haas
Scriabin Etude Op. 8 #12 - Cortot
Scriabin misc. pieces - Horowitz, Sofronitsky, Ogdon

de Falla Fantasia Baetica - Koji (live)

Prokofiev Sonata #7 - Gould
Prokofiev Piano Concerto #2 - Ashkenazy

Ravel Ondine - Pogorelich
Ravel Tzigane - Midori (live)

Barber Piano Concerto - Browning
Barber Souvenirs - Browning and ?

Bartok Etudes - MT

[Waldszenen]

- Perahia's Bach WTC

- Brendel's Beethoven Sonatas, Philips DDD (his third cycle)

- Gilels' Brahms Concerti (Jochum - haven't heard the Reiner ones)

- Pletnev's Rach 3 (shut up - I know it's musically crap)

- Volodos' Rach 3

- Janis' 1957 Rach 3

- Richter's Liszt Concerti