Favorite Solo Piano Recordings

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aukhawk

(Messiaen 20 Regards) Osborne is (almost, see below) my favourite too - although I have a live recording from BBC iPlayer, but I imagine the Hyperion recording is quite similar.

Confining myself to 10 - no, 11 - in random (ie composer alphabetical) order -

JS Bach, 6 French Suites - Zhu Xiao-Mei
JS Bach, lollipops - Vikingur Olafsson
JS Bach, The Art of Fugue - Filippo Gorini
Chopin, Mazurkas - Klara Min
Chopin, Mazurkas - Janusz Olejniczak
Debussy, Preludes Bks 1&2 - Hiroko Sasaki
Glass, 20 Etudes - Anton Batagov
Messiaen, Vingt Regards - Anton Batagov
Scarlatti, 39 Sonatas - Claire Huangci
Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues - Tatiana Nikolayeva (Hyperion)
Ravel/Takemistu/Messiaen, La Vallee des Cloches - Momo Kodama

vandermolen

I don't listen to many solo piano recordings, but I enjoy these ones:

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Mandryka

Quote from: aukhawk on October 03, 2022, 06:24:03 AM
(Messiaen 20 Regards) Osborne is (almost, see below) my favourite too - although I have a live recording from BBC iPlayer, but I imagine the Hyperion recording is quite similar.

Confining myself to 10 - no, 11 - in random (ie composer alphabetical) order -

JS Bach, 6 French Suites - Zhu Xiao-Mei
JS Bach, lollipops - Vikingur Olafsson
JS Bach, The Art of Fugue - Filippo Gorini
Chopin, Mazurkas - Klara Min
Chopin, Mazurkas - Janusz Olejniczak
Debussy, Preludes Bks 1&2 - Hiroko Sasaki
Glass, 20 Etudes - Anton Batagov
Messiaen, Vingt Regards - Anton Batagov
Scarlatti, 39 Sonatas - Claire Huangci
Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues - Tatiana Nikolayeva (Hyperion)
Ravel/Takemistu/Messiaen, La Vallee des Cloches - Momo Kodama

When Osborne was starting out I heard him play 20 regards twice, once in Edinburgh and once in London. I thought both were excellent and I also heard the Cd in someone's house and it seemed to capture the approach in the concerts pretty well. However less than 10 years ago I heard him do it again and I thought the magic had gone. It may be me, it may be him, it may be both - but it just could be that your bbc rip doesn't catch him at his best.
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Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: vandermolen on October 03, 2022, 01:07:27 PM
I don't listen to many solo piano recordings, but I enjoy these ones:
Don't know those Koechlin nor the Bloch works.  I'll have to do some googling on youtube!

For me, love lots of Chopin and Debussy with people like Moravec, and Zimerman..Ravel...Beethoven (need to revisit) with Gilels...Adore Janacek with Firkusny.  de Larrocha (Mozart, Albenez and Granados).

Lots of great solo piano music out there!

PD
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