List your definitive recordings of the piano literature.

[cherub_rocker1979]

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Rosalyn Tureck

Mozart: Sonatas - Mitsuko Uchida

Beethoven: Sonatas - Wilhelm Kempff

Chopin: Etudes - Louis Lortie

Chopin: Sonata no. 3 - Evgeny Kissin

Chopin: Ballades - Krystian Zimerman

Liszt: Transcendental Etudes - Jeno Jando

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor - Stephen Hough

Rachmaninov: Moments musicaux - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux - Nikolai Lugansky

Rachmaninov: Preludes - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Rachmaninov: Sonata no. 2 - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Scriabin: Sonatas - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Scriabin: Etudes - Alexander Paley

Scriabin: Preludes - Piers Lane

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit - Abbey Simon

[presto agitato]

My preferences:

Bach: Well Tempered Clavier - Andras Schiff.

Bach: English Suites - Murray Perahia.

Haydn: Sonatas - Alfred Brendel.

Mozart: Sonatas - Never into them  .

Mozart: Concertos -  Alfred Brendel.

Beethoven: Sonatas - Alfred Brendel (First cycle).

Beethoven: Concertos - Wilhelm Kempff.

Schubert: Sonatas - Jeno Jando by far.

Schubert: Impromptus - Jeno Jando.

Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy - Maurizio Pollini.

Mendelssohn: Song without Words - Ilse von Alpenheim.

Mendelssoh: Rondo Capriccioso - Benjamin Frith.

Mendelssohn: Preludes and Fugues -  Benjamin Frith.

Mendelssohn: Piano and Orchestra - Stephen Hough


Chopin: Etudes, Preludes, Scherzos and Ballades - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Chopin: Nocturnes - Daniel Barenboim

Chopin: Concertos - Not sure.

Schumann: All works with Wilhelm Kempff. (Kresleriana - Murray Perahia)

Schumann: Piano and Orchestra: Murray Perahia.

Schumann: Piano Quintet in Eb: Jeno Jando

Liszt: Piano Solo - Not sure.

Liszt: Concertos - Krystian Zimerman

Brahms: Piano Solo - Not Sure

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor: Jeno Jando

Brahms: Concertos - Emil  Gilels.

Reger: Variations - Marc Hamelin.

Saint Saens -  Piano and Orchestra - Stephen Hough.

Rachmaninov: Preludes - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Rachmaninov: Concertos, Sonatas, Etudes, Variatons etc: Not sure.

Scriabin: I also chose Alexander Paley for the etudes.

Albeniz: Marc Hamelin.

[arensky]

So many records so little time; oh well here's a few....

Gaspard de la Nuit   Michelangeli

Prokofiev Sonata # 6   Pogorelich

Goldberg Variations        Gould/1955

Debussy Preludes and Images    Michelangeli

Barber Piano Sonata   Horowitz

Chopin Preludes   Argerich

Schumann Symphonic Etudes   Casadesus

Chopin Sonata #3   Kapell

Beethoven Piano Sonatas   Schnabel (still the best IMO, warts and all)

Albeniz Iberia   de Larrocha

Rachmaninov Concerto #1   Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov Concerto #4   Michelangeli

Chopin Etudes (complete set)   Anievas

Rachmaninov Sonata #2    Horowitz/1968

Liszt Sonata in b minor   Horowitz/1932

Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody   Kapell

Schubert Wanderer Fantasy    Richter

Scriabin Vers la Flamme         Horowitz

Chopin Ballades (complete set)   Rubinstein

[rob47]

rach3rd conerto Horowitz

rach2nd concerto

Transcendental Etudes: berezovsky/lazar berman

Mozartsonatas: too many good ones to pick a definitive one

beethoven: rubinstein

hungarian rhapsodies:

petrouckha: gilels

prokofiev 6th sonata: pogorelich

prokofiev 2nd concerto: gutierrez

And on a side note I feel almost anything Horowitz has played has become definitive in my head.

[burstroman]

Sinfonias of Bach - Landowska
Ballade A flat, Chopin - Richter
"Pictures", Moussorgsky - Richter (live recording)
Albeniz, Iberia - de Larrocha
Prokofiev, Concerto #5 - Richter
Mozart, Rondo a minor - Schnabel
Schubert, Impromptu #4 Op 142 - Schnabel

[superstition2]

Here are a few:

Scriabin

Sonata 1 = Ashkenazy
Sonata 5 = Taub/Horowitz!
Sonata 6 = Richter
Sonata 7 = Glemser
Sonata 8 = Ashkenazy
Sonata 9 = Sofronitsky!
Sonata 10 = Taub/Horowitz!
Concerto = Ashkenazy & Maazel (The Chicago symphony recording is good as well)


Rachmaninov

Sonata 2 = Ashkenazy
Concerto 2 = Rachmaninov
Concerto 3 = Rachmaninov/Horowitz (Ashkenazy for the alternate coda only)
Concerto 4 original version = Ashkenazy & Ghindin
Concerto 4 1927 version = Buketoff & Black
Concerto 4 final = Anievas/Fruhbeck de Burgos
various short pieces = Rachmaninov/Horowitz


Prokofiev

Sonata 6 = Richter
Sonata 7 = Richter (live and studio) (Horowitz isn't bad)
Concerto 2 = Ashkenazy!
Concerto 3 = Prokofiev (I've never cared much for this piece)


Tcherepnin

Symphony 3 = Shui! (there's a tiny piano part, lol)
Concerto 5 = Shui/Ogawa


Roslavets

Three Etudes = Hamelin!
Sonata 5 = Hamelin


Myaskovsky

Sonata 2 = Lvov
Sonata 3 = Richter!


Berg

Sonata = Uchida


Liszt

Sonata B minor = Horowitz!
Danse Macabre = Horowitz


Satie

Gnossiennes = Quefflec!


I have to stop now, or I'll be here forever.