Favorite Solo Piano Recordings

[nakulanb]

What are some of yours?

Pascal Roge - Faure Solo Piano Works
Ivan Moravec - Chopin Nocturnes
Pascal Roge - Assorted "Nocturnes" album.

I took off my Bach and Mozart from the list.  I really do prefer the spacey and pretty sides of music more.

[Peter Power Pop]

Pascal Rogé - Debussy Piano Works

[Peter Power Pop]

Louis Lortie - Ravel Piano Works

Volume 1
Volume 2
Music for Four Hands (with Hélène Mercier)

[nakulanb]

I love Debussy and Ravel!

[SimonNZ]

The first ten favorites that jumped to mind:

[nakulanb]

The two that jumped out were the Chopin and Grieg, of whom the latter I am basing off the cover.  I've never heard the composer's work.

[SimonNZ]

The two that jumped out were the Chopin and Grieg, of whom the latter I am basing off the cover.  I've never heard the composer's work.

There's a single disc selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces by Emil Gilels that gets all the love and many will tell you is the place to start. But its Daniel Adni's complete on the original 4 lps and near complete on the 2cds above for me.

[Mandryka]

[Mandryka]

Andras Schiff - Mozart Piano Sonatas

Thanks for mentioning this enjoyable recording - I don't know that I'd ever heard it before.

[Lisztianwagner]

Some of them:

Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin's Solo Piano Works
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Rachmaninov's Preludes
Mitsuko Uchida - Mozart's Piano Sonatas
Lazar Berman - Liszt's Années de pèlerinage
Matti Raekallio - Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas
Sviatoslav Richter - Bach's Well Tempered Clavier

[Operafreak]

[nakulanb]

Thanks for mentioning this enjoyable recording - I don't know that I'd ever heard it before.

Yep!  And I'm Captain from talkclassical!

[Mandryka]

Yep!  And I'm Captain from talkclassical!

I thought so. In that case, be sure to listen to the Grieg that people recommended, especially the earlier opus numbers in the Lyric Pieces. My own choice for that music would be Walter Gieseking. I think you might like the Albeniz I mentioned too.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Looks interesting!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Gould: Bach, Goldberg Variations - both, though I slightly favor the 1981 version
Gould: Consort of Musicke - music of Byrd and Gibbons, not written for piano but works so well on it
Aimard: Ligeti, Etudes
Oppens: Carter, Complete Piano Music
Rangell: A Bridge to Bach - similar concept to Consort of Musicke but with more composers on it
Sheppard: Bach, Partitas
Bolcom: Heliotrope Bouquet - rags by various composers incl. the pianist; LP only last I looked

[prémont]

Yep!  And I'm Captain from talkclassical!

Yes, Lang Lang's Goldberg Variations revealed you. 

[prémont]

Some favorites:

Bach: The Art of Fugue, Geoffrey Douglas Madge
Beethoven: Op. 106, Rudolf Serkin
Beethoven: Op. 111, Wilhelm Kempff  (DG mono 1950'es)
Chopin: Nocturnes, Bart van Oort
Bartok: For children, Geza Anda
Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis, Hans Petermandl

[nakulanb]

Reinbert de Leeuw - Piano Music (Satie)

[MusicTurner]

Reinbert de Leeuw - Piano Music (Satie)

Pounds the table!

[nakulanb]

Yes, Lang Lang's Goldberg Variations revealed you. 

Which I did on purpose, to see who would pick up on it.