Tchaikovsky Bbminor Piano Concerto Recording

[steinway23]

Hi All,

I've just fallen very much in love with this piano concerto and i am acquiring as many good recordings as i can for this magnificent piece.

Please let me know which are some of the most precious and important recordings that are out there ya?

it will help me most definitely if you could share in depth your recommendation....

Thanks!!!!

[rohansahai]

Van Cliburn's recording with Kirill Kondrashin is wonderful. Martha Argerich's with the same conductor is also good;she plays faster but there are quite a lot of slips and errors, but still very good.

[maxy]

Richter... most powerful recording.  Some people don't like him.  He does not seem to be quite popular around...
But his Thaikovsky is intense!

[mh88]

surprisingly enough...out of all the recordings i've heard, which is quite a few...my fav. is the recently released version done by Lang Lang

[Valour]

This hybrid SACD - featuring Lugansky, Tetzlaff, Nagano and the Russian National Orchestra - was Editor's Choice in Gramophone magazine, February 2004:

Tchaikovsky Concertos, sound clips & reviews
https://lugansky.homestead.com/TchaikVCPC1.html

(Hybrid SACDs can be played on normal CD players as well as SACD players.)

[thracozaag]

Hi All,

I've just fallen very much in love with this piano concerto and i am acquiring as many good recordings as i can for this magnificent piece.

Please let me know which are some of the most precious and important recordings that are out there ya?

it will help me most definitely if you could share in depth your recommendation....

Thanks!!!!

 Horowitz/Szell-1953
 Horowitz/Barbirolli-1940
 Cziffra-1957
 Janis-1960's
 Gilels/Reiner
 
Richter's is pretty lame, and LL's is well...bad.

koji (STSD)

[maxy]

Richter = lame

someone had to say that  

You like it, or you don't, not a pianist that would try to please...

Still, Richter has the most powerful version!
But for those that are looking for something else...

the previous poster did make some good suggestions!

[thracozaag]

Richter = lame

someone had to say that  

You like it, or you don't, not a pianist that would try to please...

Still, Richter has the most powerful version!
But for those that are looking for something else...

the previous poster did make some good suggestions!

 I don't find it powerful at all...labored, perhaps.

koji (STSD)

[zhiliang]

I would recommend Arthur Rubinstein with Erich Leinsdorf and Mikhail Pletnev with Vladimir Fedoseyev.

[thracozaag]

I would recommend Arthur Rubinstein with Erich Leinsdorf and Mikhail Pletnev with Vladimir Fedoseyev.

 The live Rubinstein with Barbirolli I think is better.

koji (STSD)

[zhiliang]

 The live Rubinstein with Barbirolli I think is better.

koji (STSD)

Oh then i must really try that.... I thot the Chopin Piano Concertos with Barbirolli was better than the later ones too...

[thracozaag]

Oh then i must really try that.... I thot the Chopin Piano Concertos with Barbirolli was better than the later ones too...

 Absolutely; The 1st in particular is just phenomenal.  I've always thought that Barbirolli was perahps the best orchestral accompanist of the 20th century.

koji (STSD)