Rachmaninoff Sonatas - best recordings?

[elmo]

Does anyone have a list of all the recordings of the two Rachmaninoff Sonatas (including the first version of the 2nd Sonata)?

And, which recordings are considered to be the best?

[donjuan]

I really like Van Cliburn's recording of the 2nd, but the recording quality is poor..

[bachmaninov]

Horowitz's Recording of Sonata No.2 is by far the best ever... no doubt

[cziffra777]

I like Weissenberg's recording of the first. I haven't heard any other recordings of the work. As for the second, I like Cliburn's recording and the Horowitz recording in the Great Pianists set.

[Motrax]

Santiago Rodriguez made a wonderful recording of the first sonata.

[thracozaag]

1st Sonata: Ogdon (RCA)
2nd Sonata: Horowitz 1968, and two other bootleg performances, one also from 1968, the other from 1976.

koji (STSD)

[liszmaninopin]

I agree with Thracozaag on both suggestions.

[marianne_n]

Here are the answers
Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36   
https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=9829&name_role1=1&genre=122&bcorder=19&comp_id=2375

72 records in total

Sonata for Piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 28   
https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=9829&name_role1=1&genre=122&bcorder=19&comp_id=2403

15 records in total

And also there is another link:

https://www.cduniverse.com/classical.asp?HT_Search=composer&composer=Sergei+Rachmaninov&work=Sonata+for+Piano+no+2+in+B+flat+minor%2C+Op%2E+36&exact=1

where they say that there are 63 records of
Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36

[communist]

Pianowolfi for the first

[pianowolfi]

Pianowolfi for the first

lol that's very nice But really, I think that one was only a very humble attempt. I am currently working again on this piece ( I admire, it's one of my greatest passions), I will play it in concert next January and I really hope I can do more justice to it. I hope I will be able to post another, better recording here by then.
Btw nobody mentioned Berezovsky yet? His rendition is surely one of the best out there. And, to me, Scherbakov is my favorite pianist for it, but he didn't record it yet.

[imbetter]

definatly pianowolfi for the first and horowitz for the second (even though Nikolsky's second is also very good)

[minor9th]

I've always liked Zoltan Kocis' original version of No.2. If Volodos ever records it, that should rule! Pogorelich's performances of the 2nd back in the 80s (before he went insane--or whatever is going on) were very powerful, too.

[goldentone]

Pianowolfi for the first