Best Chopin Polonaises?

[brahmsian]

IYO, what is the best complete recorded set of Chopin Polonaises. I don't have a complete set and would like to get one.

[randmc]

I personally like Idil Biret's recordings of the Polonaises. I feel she puts alot of feeling and expression into these pieces. I think they're also at the right tempo and pace.

[stormx]

Pollini set is awesome. 
It is so good that i dont feel like buying another one 

But is has just 7 of them, so the set is not complete.

[cherub_rocker1979]

I really like the Biret and Pollini sets as well, but I think Kissin plays the F-sharp Minor Polonaise the best.

[stevie]

i dont have any complete sets other than biret, she is very good but by no means definitive.

individual favourites - pogorelich for op44(vid) and cziffra live for op53(vid)

i need to hear kissin's full op44, sounds great on the sample

[arensky]

Alexander Brailowsky, on Sony Classics. Not always clean, but extraordinary power and lyricism

[jas]

I love Pollini's. They're so often compared negatively with his Preludes, but I think they're great.
I quite like Nelson Freire's, too, but they don't have Pollini's fire.

Jas

[brahmsian]

I picked up the Pollini set. I like everything except his Polonaise Fantasie. The Horowitz rec is better.

[kreso]

For set of 8 Polonaises I recomend Pollini and Rubinstein

For individual polonaises: op.44-Pogorelich, Kissin
                                         op.53-Kissin (my first choice!!), Gilels
                                         op.61-Horowitz (in his young days), Richter (the best!)

My favourite is op.53

[phil13]

Alexander Brailowsky, on Sony Classics. Not always clean, but extraordinary power and lyricism

Brailowsky only has a partial D-minor Polonaise, he attaches an end onto the D major section without going back to the rest. It ruins the effect the piece has.

Horowitz for the Tragic and the Fantasie, Kissin for the Heroic.

Phil

[westley]

Rubinstein's Polonaises are excellent, especially the two most famous, A major and A flat major.

Although his A flat polonaise is naturally far from the best technically, I think brings off the sort of regal pomp of the "A" section better than any other recording I have heard.  This applies to his recording of the polonaises generally.  Nobody captures the nobility of these pieces better than he does.

 My second favorite recording of the A-flat polonaise would be Josef Lhevinne.  Its somewhat of a stunt, but it also has an incredible forward momentum.  He goes faster than anybody and uses very little pedal. Definently a unique interpretation; almost classical at the same time as it takes huge liberties.

Stuill every recording of this piece leaves me unsatisfied, I'm not sure why.