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Ten favorite SOLO PIANO recordings (for today, in no particular order):

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Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord" / Marc-André Hamelin (New World)

 

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Chopin: Nocturnes / Ivan Moravec (Supraphon)

 

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Rachmaninov: Preludes / Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca)

 

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Scriabin: Piano Works / Alexander Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi)

 

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Schubert: Piano Sonatas D958 & D959 / Maurizio Pollini (DG)

 

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 26 "Les Adieux", 27, and 29 "Hammerklavier" (Testament)

 

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Brahms: Piano Works / Peter Rösel (Edel)
This is a bit of a cheat, since it's a 5-disc set.  ... So if I were to pick one CD from the set, I'd likely go with Disc 3 - with the 3rd Piano Sonata, the Schumann Variations, and 4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119.

 

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Haydn: Three Piano Sonatas, etc. / Alfred Brendel (Philips)

 

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Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Kreisleriana / Géza Anda (DG)

 

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 15 "Pastoral", 29, 20, 24, and 25 / Rudolf Buchbinder (Teldec)
 

 

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Mendelssohn - String Quartets Op.44/1, Op.44/2, Op.80 - Mandelring Quartett - Audite

Mozart - Clarinet Quintet & Kegelstatt Trio - Meyer & Quatuor Mosaïques - Naive

Mozart - Piano Concertos No.19 & No.20 - Rudolf Serkin / Szell / Columbia Symphony Orch. - Columbia

Beethoven - String Quartets No.1, No.2, No.3 - Smetana Quartet - Denon

Beethoven - The Sonata Legacy (Complete Piano Sonatas) - Rudolf Buchbinder - RCA

Schubert - String Quintet - Stern, Schneider, Katims, Casals, Tortelier - CBS

Haydn - String Quartets Op.64 - Amadeus Quartet - DG

Schumann - Piano Quintet & Dvorak - Piano Quartet No.2 - Rubinstein / Guarneri Quartet - RCA

Brahms - The Violin Sonatas  No.1, No.2, No.3 - Josef Suk & Julius Katchen - Decca

Brahms - String Sextets - No.1 & No.2 - The Raphael Ensemble - Hyperion

 

 

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Well, here are ten I've listen to most in the last year. I guess do I enjoy them. I have to be considerate of what my family can tolerate, so more ugly / noisy stuff (that I enjoy just as much) is played less frequently. 

J.S. Bach - Cello Suites - Ophelie Gaillard (Aparte)

J.S. Bach - Cafe Zimmermann - Concerts avec plusieurs instruments (6-CD box) (Alpha)

J.S. Bach - Six Suites (Piano) - Irma Issakadze (Oehms)

Johann Molter - Trumpet and Clarinet Concertos (Coviello Classics) - unexpectedly good baroque composer 

C.P.E. Bach - Piano Works - Ana-Marija Markovina (26-CD box) (Hänssler) 

C.P.E. Bach - Concertos & Symphonies (two volumes) - Berliner Barock Solisten (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

Sylvius Leopold Weiss - The Famous Weiss. Solo Lute Works - David Miller (Timespan Recordings) - mikeweil will say these are no good, and he is probably right, but what can I do, I still love them 

Morton Feldman - For Bunita Marcus (piano) - Ivan Ilic (Paraty)

Georg Friedrich Haas - In Vain - Klangforum Wien (KAIROS)

Pascal Dusapin - Quartets 6 & 7 - Arditti Quartet (aeon) 

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3 hours ago, Д.Д. said:

Well, here are ten I've listen to most often in the last year. I guess do I enjoy them. I have to be considerate of for what my family can tolerate, so more ugly / noisy stuff (that I probably like just as much) is listened to much less frequently. 

J.S. Bach - Six Suites (Piano) - Irma Issakadze (Oehms)

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1) Charles Koechlin- Les Bandar-log Op.176 (RCA Victor Red Seal) David Zinman

2) Howard Hanson Symphony #2 "The Romantic"

3) Arnold Bax- Elegiac Trio for Flute,Harp and Viola

4) Bernard Herrmann- 'Symphony' conducted by Herrmann Unicorn records

5) Francis Poulenc- Sextet for Winds and Piano

6) Paul Hindemith- Mathis Der Maler (DG)

7) Arthur Honnegger-  Symphonies 2,3 and 4.  Three Symphonic Movements for Orchestra

8) Wallingford Riegger- Sextet for Winds and Piano (3rd Movement only).

9) Billy Jim Layton- String Quartet in Two Movements (First Movement only) CRI

10) John Lessard- Concerto for Wind and String Instruments (CRI)

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