 | Piano Transcriptions / Arcadi Volodos by Arcadi Volodos
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.44 Volodos has superb technique, and the program of transcriptions is one that never gets old. Brilliant
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 | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff/Concerto for Piano in Dm; Sonata for Piano No2/Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $3.99 "Horowitz plays Liszt" and "Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff" are two of the best recordings of some of the more important works. A brilliant recording of the Rach 3
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 | Jorge Bolet 1
Buy used from: $16.98 I might venture to say that disc 2 is one of the best performances by any pianist at any time
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 | Marc-André Hamelin Live at Wigmore Hall
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $10.29 Another one of the best live performances ever. Hamelin and Volodos are at the top of of the field today
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 | Alkan: Les quatre ages; Sonatine; Le festin d'Esope
Buy used from: $13.82 Another Hamelin recording. Alkan writes some of the most difficult pieces for piano; Hamelin eats them for breakfast.
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 | Message à tous les pianistes
Buy used from: $26.13 Cziffra is probably more obscure than he deserves to be. Excellent technique, speed, and lyricism.
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 | Piano Paraphrases & Transcriptions
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $13.00 Any cziffra recording of piano transcriptions is solid gold. His Tannhauser and Muette de Portici are beyond belief
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 | Busoni: Piano Works
I have not heard this recording. The point is to try to listen to Busoni; especially the Sonatinas, Toccatas, and transcriptions!
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 | Piano Masters: Simon Barere
Buy used from: $4.89 Simon Barere puts any other piano speed-demons to shame. It is terrible that he has passed into obscurity; a true genius. He even died in the middle of a live concert!
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 | Horowitz: The Private Collection, Vol. 2
Buy used from: $4.49 If the sound quality for these 50-year old recordings were up to modern standards, this would be one of the best live recordings ever. Still worth it
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 | The Complete Josef Hofmann, Vol. 3 (Columbia and G&T Recordings 1903-1918 with Seven Previously Unissued Selections)
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $27.57 Josef Hofmann was also one of the greatest pianists. Listen to Kaleidoskop, especially.
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 | Barber:The Complete Solo Piano Music
Buy used from: $1.05 John Browning (as well as Horowitz) was friends with Barber, and as such his interpretations are qutie something. An excellent CD
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 | The Piano Album
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $4.98 This recording, as well as Hough's "New Piano Album" are exquisite recordings of not-so-well-known pieces. Listen especially to Liebermann's Gargoyles and Dohnanyi's Capriccio.
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