Your Favorite Mozart K 488

[G. String]

I never needed to look for another to replace any of my favorite five, Gulda/Harnoncourt, Uchida/Tate, Perahia, Moravec/Marriner & Bilson/Gardiner. What is your favorite account of Piano Concerto No 23?

[Sergeant Rock]

I never needed to look for another to replace any of my favorite five, Gulda/Harnoncourt, Uchida/Tate, Perahia, Moravec/Marriner & Bilson/Gardiner. What is your favorite account of Piano Concerto No 23?

Hélène Grimaud's 23rd is worth hearing, with a particularly expressive and intensely slow Adagio, "a dark and troubling exploration of the soul." She plays the Busoni cadenza in the first movement (a decision that lost her the chance to record the concerto with Abbado).




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[Mandryka]

Zacharias's first recording with Zinman and Staatskapelle Dresden, Yudina's. But there are so many.

[Bogey]

If you can find the single disc of this set.

[Todd]

A four-way tie between Schiff/Vegh, Casadesus/Szell, Moravec/Vlach, and Fischer/Boult.

[NJ Joe]

The truth:  Casadesus/Szell

The whole truth:  It's the only one I own. 

[DavidW]

Moravec and Schiff.

[Jay F]

Mozart's piano concertos are like pizza and sex: even when they're just okay, they're still pretty damned good. I like practically every one I've ever heard: Brendel, Perahia, Anda, Uchida, Schiff, Casadesus, Gulda (I'm talking about all of them, not just #23). If I could only pick one #23, it would be Uchida's, because it comes with #22, which I like more than #23 (again, in general, not just Uchida's).

I found it very considerate of Philips to release Uchida's Mozart PCs in order. Unfortunately, they're not organized that way on the El Cheapo Special.

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[Dancing Divertimentian]

Schiff/Vegh and Goode/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

[amw]

Quite like Zacharias and Uchida. Curious about Immy.

[akiralx]

You've got my favourite: Gulda/Harnoncourt.

Don't miss the pianist in Concerto 9 K271 on Orfeo.

[G. String]

I have the luck to have all of those you mentioned except Moravec/Vlach. Grimaud's Allegro is not to my taste but Adagio and Allegro Assai are above my average and in my opinion Immerseel's fortepiano choice is not the best. But other than that, the rest should be the cream of the crop. Thank you for sharing.

[Jo498]

Gulda/Harnoncourt is my favorite, but the piece is hard to ruin, IMO.
A "classic" you might want to check out (although I find it too "cool" now, it was my first disc of the piece, around the Mozart anniversary 1991) is Pollini/Böhm (DG)

[Jay F]

Last time, I chose Uchida. Today it would be Brendel with Marriner/ASMF. It was one of my first three classical CDs. [asin]B00000E3K2[/asin]

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[Marc]

Zacharias's first recording with Zinman and Staatskapelle Dresden, Yudina's. But there are so many.

Indeed.
As Jo498 said, the piece is hard to ruin.

With a gun against my head, I'd pick Zacharias/Zinman, too.
(Photo finish with Van Immerseel.)