Nominate one recording for "must listen" list

[cygnusdei]

Hi friends - let's build a list of "must listen" recordings so we can enrich one another's musical landscape. I suggest that each of us nominate only ONE recording (so choose wisely!).

Me first: Evelyne Brancart: Brahms Paganini Variations (Books I & II), Liszt Paganini Etudes.
This is an out of print CD that IMHO contains definitive accounts of the repertoire. Ms. Brancart apparently was (is?) a faculty member at IU, I guess it befits their reputation. What a shame that there are no other commercial recordings of hers that I know of. You have to listen to this CD, her mastery of the instrument is complete. If I could live my life over, I would make sure that I land on her doorstep and beg her to be my teacher!

Let's hear your nominations!

[perfect_pitch]

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Schumann's Carnivale

[stevebob]

Stephen Hough:  Hummel Piano Concertos Opp. 85 and 89 (Chandos CD)

Hummel is the stylistic bridge between Mozart and Chopin, and nowhere is that more evident than in this pair of pieces.  Hough plays them to perfection, with all the warmth, authority and precision that the music demands.

[quantum]

Roger Muraro
Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus
DVD

https://www.amazon.com/Messiaen-Vingt-Regards-lEnfant-Jsus-Video/dp/B000808YW8

[liszt1022]

Dag Achatz - Rite of Spring for solo piano. The only one who pulled it off, in my opinion. Demonstrates fantastic knowledge of piano's abilities and lots of magician's tricks to overcome the dense layers.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stravinsky-rite-spring-the/id331084538

[ted]

Blue Black Bottom - Waller, 1927

[minor9th]

Lazar Berman's Liszt Transcendental Etudes

[tb230]

Leif Ove Andsnes - Haydn Concertos No. 3, 4 & 11
https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewCollaboration?ids=578495-579979-579983&s=143457

[camstrings]

Beethoven's 6th Symphony arranged by Liszt, played by Glenn Gould.

[bbush]

Raymond Lewenthal's Piano Music of Alkan (with "Liszt's" Hexameron) on HP - High Performance label CD#09026-63310-2 (the original recording was on an RCA LP and had only the Alkan pieces)

[christefan]

Rachmaninov Comcerto 3 Horowitz/Coates from 1930 om EMI--make sure you notice how little Horowitz loses the melodic line even at the speed he's playing it at; less disjointed than the composer's rendition for RCA which is slightly slower.

[soitainly]

 Well, forgive me for being obvious, but Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variation recordings are maybe the epitomy of recorded music. The 1955 recording was pretty important in me liking Bach, and piano in general. But the 1981 recording is even more sublime. I would go as far to say that without these recordings, I wouldn't have become interested in classical piano.