Chopin recordings

[la_leggierezza]

What“s the best recording of chopin etudes?
I have Pollini“s and Arrau“s recordings and like it very much. Is there a better recording?

What about Nocturnes? I have Arrau, Rubinstein, Maria Joćo Pires. I also have few nocturnes played by Pizarro. Anything better?

thanks for your suggestions. 

[kghayesh]

I don't think there are better Chopin recordings than Ashkenazy's...

[Souza]

What“s the best recording of chopin etudes?
I have Pollini“s and Arrau“s recordings and like it very much. Is there a better recording?

What about Nocturnes? I have Arrau, Rubinstein, Maria Joćo Pires. I also have few nocturnes played by Pizarro. Anything better?

thanks for your suggestions. 

Shura Cherkassky  etudes and preludes (op 10 n 1 the most light and gentle
I've heard)...
Guiomar Novaes etudes and nocturnes...(peerless op 25/8)
Ashkenazy last serie (there is a previous recorded at sixties)
Cortot last serie
Arrau
Nelson Freire only op 25...
Lisitsa dvd.
Earl Wild (superbs op 25 n 4 and n 12)
Boris Berezovsky  (superb op 10 n 3)
Polini

It is impossible to choose one.  I'm fond of them all, sometimes  the tastes
change and I prefer one than another.

Nocturnes - IMO, Guiomar is one of the best at Nocturnes.  I have them with Baremboim too.

Mazurkas - 57 Mazurkas with Eugen Indjic.

Preludes - Shura (with etudes) and Ashkenazy ( with Impromptus)

Pedro

[princessdecadence]

Horowitz Chopins are very decent - all except for his Ballade Op. 23 - hardly forgiving him for that one.

[jas]

Berezovsky's Etudes are well worth a listen, especially 10/11.
And Arrau's Nocturnes are lovely. A bit darker, for lack of a better word, than some, but great all the same.

Jas

[maxy]

I find the best rec of the Chopin études is by Cortot.  Full of wrong notes, but wonderful music. 

Cziffra is very entertaining, far from traditional.

Gavrilov is also very impressive.

Richter did not play them all, but he did play many with insane intensity (and speed at times).

Fiorentino is very good, but good luck finding that one.

[dmk]

Etudes: Cortot is excellent, I also have the Lortie (on Chandos) and I really like these.

Nocturnes: I have Arrau, Hewitt and Barenboim.  Not overly fond of the Barenboim's but I really like the other two, for very different reasons, but both are excellent!!!

cheers

dmk