Piano Solo or Concerto Recordings that make you go "wow"

[Mandryka]

I got this off ebay a few weeks ago -- some guy in The Russian Federation has loads of them.

It's MP3 but very high quality (320kB) -- I think it sounds fine.

And you get:

Berman's Liszt Transcendental Etudes
Zhukof playing Bach Schumann and Rachmaninoff
Virsaladze playing Chopin
Ashkenazy's Russian Chopin Etudes.

[snyprrr]

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[Mandryka]

Hélène Grimaud's total identification with Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A flat op.110

Lilya Zilberstein's ultra slow, Mahlerian reading of Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (arranged by Liszt)

Glenn Gould's affectionate and very romantic take on Richard Strauss's Piano Sonata in B minor op.5

Seconded. wonderful recordings

Gould playing his own transcription of the Prelude to Wagner's Die Meistersinger

You should try Mikhael Rudy's CD of Wagner transcriptions

Egorov's Bach Partita no. 6.

I was listening to that yesterday and it is wonderful especially in the faster  music.

I
Bavouzet's solo Ravel.

Not a patch on Roger Muraro, who takes this music to new levels IMO

Any live Cziffra.

Do you have any bootlegs you can let me have?

Agreed and the Fassingsschwanck that goes with it is also unjustly ignored.l The whole disc is a desert island special for me.

The best Fassingsschwanck I have heard by far is Cziffra's

I have a recording which qualifies as a piano solo and concerto recording, that makes me go "Wow!" It's Marc-Andre Hamelin's unbelievable performance of Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano - 50 minutes of solid WOW!

The whole of his Wigmore Hall recital is pretty special

Pogorelich - Rachmaninoff sonata 2, Musical Moment 1, Islamey, some Liszt TEs

The TEs are where?

Pletnev - Chopin Preludes

Barere - Liszt sonata,

That's a joke, right?

Ginzburg - Chopin  Sonata 2

Thanks -- I had never heard that one until now.

Right now I'm listening to Steven Osborne play Messiaen's Vingt Regards. I far prefer this version to that of Michel Beroff's, which was my only experience previous to this one. Right from the first movement, it's clear his approach is going to be outstanding.

Agreed

Schumann: Piano Concerto in a Minor op.54
Emil von Sauer: Piano
Willem Mengelberg, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra

This is the best Schumann concerto I've ever heard, even better than Cortot's!!!

There's a good Cortot recording from Munich with Fricsay in the 1950s

[Papy Oli]

3'46 to 4'17 on this Chopin Ballade by Michelangeli... :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKWkCKdDGVs&feature=player_detailpage#t=220s


wow indeed.

[mszczuj]

3'46 to 4'17 on this Chopin Ballade by Michelangeli... :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKWkCKdDGVs&feature=player_detailpage#t=220s


wow indeed.

You are right. He plays on modern piano as if it was real piano.

[George]