Your Top 3 Piano Cycles on the Shelf

[Bogey]

Any composer.

[Gurn Blanston]

OK





I have the whole set of each of those where I only posted the first disk. They are my particular favorites, although mostly I don't go for entire cycles.

[Sergeant Rock]

Top Three Four

[Marc]

Probably these three:







I know there's so much left to investigate .... but in recent years I turned to organ and harpsichord more.

[NJ Joe]

I probably go to these three the most: 

[ritter]

Today, probably these three:







Tomorrow, who knows? 

[Jay F]

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[prémont]

Probably these three:







I know there's so much left to investigate .... but in recent years I turned to organ and harpsichord more.

What a coincidence, precisely these three cycles are my choices too, if I have to choose between piano recordings exclusively (fortepiano recordings not included).

If we include fortepiano recordings, I would exchange Pires´Mozart set with Badura-Skoda´s Beethoven set on Astreé.

[Ken B]

No harpsichord.

Haydn, Brautigam
Late Schubert, Brendel

Now it gets hard.

Probably Bartok, Sandor or (no harpsichord) Bach, Hewitt. Sandor gets the edge for performance, but I listen to and like the Hewitt more.
Mozart, Uchida is fabulous, as good playing as I have ever heard, but I never listen to it anymore.

[Cosi bel do]

Not giving it much thought, it could be this :

[Marc]

What a coincidence, precisely these three cycles are my choices too, if I have to choose between piano recordings exclusively (fortepiano recordings not included).

If we include fortepiano recordings, I would exchange Pires´Mozart set with Badura-Skoda´s Beethoven set on Astreé.

Yes, I deliberately excluded fortepiano recordings.
If included, then here's another fine cycle, worthy of a Top 3 classification:

[Bogey]

Very cool, folks.  Many I would have not considered. Your posts are valued at this end.

[amw]

Beethoven - Badura-Skoda - Astrée
Cage - Schleiermacher - MDG
Schumann - Kempff - DG

So far anyways.

[Ken B]

Shout out to Brahms, Katchen but I think Klien is actually the best Brahms cycle. Alas I don't have it.

[North Star]

Not counting music composed for some late 18th early 19th century instrument 
      
Edit: or perhaps this instead of the Bartók/Kocsis...

[Lisztianwagner]

These ones for me:

[Bogey]

Ah, no worries with the instrument.  If you need two posts, one with older instrumentation, then make two posts.

[NJ Joe]

I was torn about not including this one.

[Todd]

[amw]

Shout out to Brahms, Katchen

Brahms - Katchen is really good too. But my top 3 were easy.