 | Chopin: Etudes/Preludes/Polonaises
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $18.78 a treasure chest of Chopin piano music
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 | Evgeny Kissin: Beethoven, Franck, Brahms
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.87 includes the very popular Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven
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 | The Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I by Johann Sebastian Bach
Buy new: $20.97 / Used from: $19.99 Many great musicians have said that playing Bach's keyboard music is like daily nourishment to them. Glenn Gould is famous for his clear, authoritative, musical, sometimes eccentric, way of playing Bach.
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 | Consort of Musicke by William Byrd & Orlando Gibbons; Sweelinck: Fantasia in D (The Glenn Gould Edition) by Glenn Gould
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $4.42 a desert island recording, meaning one of my top ten favorite recordings.
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![Zoltán Kocsis plays Bartók [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zFDkpcKJL._SL75_.jpg) | Zoltán Kocsis plays Bartók [Box Set]
Buy new: $63.98 / Used from: $40.95 If you don't want this complete box,
buy ANY recording of Bartok's piano music played by Zoltan Kocsis.
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 | Yundi Li: Liszt by Yundi Li
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.54 Franz Liszt, one of the top 5 piano dudes in history ! This product is a CD, but buying a DVD of a recital by Yundi Li would also be a good investment.
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 | Debussy: Images I/Images II/Children's Corner
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.24 Debussy was one of the innovators of piano music, creating a new sound around one hundred years ago.
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 | Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.30 Piano and Orchestra
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 | Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1/Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $3.15 two of the most popular piano concertos performed by a top pianist
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 | Schumann: Piano Concerto
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.33 my favorite version of Schumann's catchy, romantic piano concerto
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 | Solo Concerts: Bremen & Lausanne by Keith Jarrett
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $29.18 Long improvised pieces, just Keith Jarrett's empty mind and a piano and an audience. Of Keith Jarrett's many many recordings, this one from early 70's is still one of my favorites.
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 | The Trio by Oscar Peterson With Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.00 This CD, 'The Trio' by the Oscar Peterson Trio (Oscar Peterson- piano/leader, Joe Pass-guitar, and NHOP - bass) is one of the hottest, blues-iest, Oscar Peterson recordings in existence. Amazing, with tangible audience joy, recorded in a club in Chicago.
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 | Brain by Hiromi
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $4.84 Lively energetic music from a young woman whose huge genius includes composing, performing, and making audiences love her.
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 | Echoes of a Friend by McCoy Tyner
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.91 Another jazz player who innovated a new way of playing. This is his solo piano tribute to John Coltrane. I first heard this record playing overhead, in fern filled restaurant in Austin in 1975, but that's another story.
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 | Concert by the Sea by Erroll Garner
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.61 At one time, a very popular album by a very popular and very gifted self-taught jazz pianist. I think you might enjoy video clips of him, too, he was on TV a lot 40 or 50 years ago.
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 | Jerry Lee Lewis - 18 Original Sun Greatest Hits by Jerry Lee Lewis
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.13 A rock and roll daddy, a large character. A number of my male students have enjoyed listening to and playing some of these songs.
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 | The Very Best of Dr. John by Dr. John
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $3.25 Doctor John's New Orleans piano, gospel, blues, jazz, rock, gumbo.
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 | The Complete Capitol Recordings by Art Tatum
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $7.89 Before my jazz teacher even told me about Chick Corea, he assured me that buying any record by Art Tatum would be a good investment. And so I tell you. But especially this one !
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 | Memoirs by Paul Bley
Buy used from: $16.15 Of Paul Bley's 150 recordings, this one, from Italy, has the best sounding acoustic trio I could imagine. Perfect mix and playing. Great jazz trios are a constant conversation among the players. At first, you might not HEAR the constant listening to each other that happens. But this is a primo document of it. Artists: Paul Bley-piano, Charlie Haden-bass, Paul Motian-drums.
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 | The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 by Bill Evans
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.00 When I first heard these recordings, in 1972, I hated it -'hotel music'. I was not in the zone. Somehow, I gradually learned to hear something perfect and beautiful here. These recordings have history - a well-documented masterpiece of piano jazz.
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 | Mikhail Pletnev ~ Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas by Mikhail Pletnev
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.84 Two CD's of short keyboard pieces written by prolific keyboard composer, performed stunningly on piano by Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev.
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 | Light as a Feather by Chick Corea
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $8.67 My jazz teacher called this one of the greatest jazz albums ever. Yes, it is PERFECT.
I recommend you find the original Polydor 1990 edition (1 disc, less expensive)... 'cause it has a PERFECT mix, instead of this 2-disc Verve/Polygram Master Edition of 1998, with its rather immature revised mix.
'Light as a Feather' really should be at the TOP of this listening list.
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