 | Maria João Pires - Chopin · The Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin
Buy used from: $19.95 Pires might sound slow at first, but her playing is always full of musical intelligence.
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 | Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 21 / Maria João Pires · COE · Abbado by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.28 Pires' Mozart concerto#17 is filled with surreal beauty.
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 | Maria João Pires ~ Schumann - Piano Concerto · Piano Quintet / COE · Abbado - Dumay · Caussé · Capuçon · Wang by Robert Schumann
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.98 Here concerto is not so good, but in the quintet, Pires plays very lively and dominates the whole music.
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 | Debussy: 12 Etudes
Buy used from: $4.02 Uchida's now-legendary and controversial Debussy. You judge it.
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 | Mozart: Piano Concertos
Buy used from: $37.77 This is one of the best performance of Mozart piano concertos.
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 | Schoenberg: Piano Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.50 Uchida shows aggressive side of her temperament here. I hope she would record Bartok piano concertos which she now is playing in concerts.
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 | Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 by Sergei Rachmaninov
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.94 Any male or female pianst can never surpass this concertos performance by Argerich at her best.
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 | Debut Recital / Martha Argerich
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.18 This debut recording by Argerich is said to have made Horowitz stunned.
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 | J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.75 This is a legendary Bach recording by Argerich. Just impeccable.
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 | Enrique Granados: Goyescas
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $11.99 Larrocha has recorded "Goyescas" four or five times. This is a younger account. Brilliant.
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![The Art of Alicia de Larrocha [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414JPJSS7VL._SL75_.jpg) | The Art of Alicia de Larrocha [Box Set]
Buy new: $50.49 / Used from: $35.32 Exhibits Larrocha's tremendous talent at her technical peak.
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 | Albeniz: Iberia
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $9.53 Albeniz's "Iberia" is said to be one of the most difficult piano pieces. Larrocha plays effortlessly.
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 | Khachaturian: Concerto for violin in Dm; Concerto for piano in Df
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.33 Another side of Larrocha. She has also recorded Rachmaninoff #3 concerto which is avaiable originally from Decca and now from unfamiliar label.
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 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1)
Buy new: $45.98 / Used from: $18.99 Canadian Hewitt's approach to Bach is very sincere. Notes written by herself are also very useful.
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 | Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
Buy new: $45.98 / Used from: $16.15 Extremely difficult #16 fugue in book II is given a superb interpreter.
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 | Hélène Grimaud ~ Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1 by Johannes Brahms
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.78 Personally I think this performance is at her best. This great concerto is obviously something special to her.
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 | Ravel: Piano Concertos; Debussy: Fantasie for Piano & Orchestra
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $3.60 Anne Queffelec's french piece playing is worth listening.
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 | Naida Cole
Buy used from: $2.29 This CD is a well thought out compilation of French piano pieces. Her playing is very crisp and sharp.
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