purchase cd help

[bananafish]

Hi, I'm currently considering buying CDs for Chopin's Etudes, Mozart's sonatas, and Beetloven's Sonatas but there are so many options to choose from. I do most of my CD purchasings on Amazon, and I need help making decisions. So, please give me suggestions on which performers do you think recorded the best of these composers' works. Thank you.

[cherub_rocker1979]

Hi, I'm currently considering buying CDs for Chopin's Etudes, Mozart's sonatas, and Beetloven's Sonatas but there are so many options to choose from. I do most of my CD purchasings on Amazon, and I need help making decisions. So, please give me suggestions on which performers do you think recorded the best of these composers' works. Thank you.

Chopin Etudes - Murray Perahia
Mozart Sonatas - Mitsuko Uchida
Beethoven Sonatas - Daniel Barenboim

[mrchops10]

Chopin Etudes - Murray Perahia
Mozart Sonatas - Mitsuko Uchida
Beethoven Sonatas - Daniel Barenboim

Good choices, except...the Beethoven. There are probably a million different opinions on this, but I think for the least idiosyncratic, and pianistically most compelling Beethoven Gilels is the winner, but unfortunately it's incomplete, the Op. 111 Sonata being the most obvious gap. IMO, there are many better complete sets than Barenboim. If you can put up with poor sound quality, Schnabel is of course the milestone against whom everyone is judged, particularly in the late sonatas. Kempff is perhaps the most consistent complete set, maybe the best for a beginning collector (which I assume you are) and always unimpeachable. I also like Goode, although I wouldn't recommend it as a first set. And I would absolutely avoid Brendel, whose set is IMO quite uneven. Of course, best is to own all of these . The Beethoven sonatas are the absolute cornerstones of the piano reportoire, and has been satisfyingly recorded probably more than any other reportoire. Each great pianist brings to these works his own perspective and genius.

[sharon_f]

Chopin Etudes - Pollini or Ashkenazy
Mozart Sonatas - I agree, Mitsuko Uchida
Beethoven Sonatas - Richard Goode

[allthumbs]

For Beethoven, I have the Robert Silverman 10 CD Boxed Set.

Superb!

Check out his Discography link

https://www.robert-silverman.com/

[moon1]

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