If you are willing to have "intelligent fun" please find the Scherzo recordings made by Shura Cherkassky for Tudor. These are "crazy" my favorite Chopin recordings of all time. Music "interpretation" of the highest order in my book.
Otherwise, I suggest the RCA Rubinstein stuff as some sort of benchmark.
Concerning "original instrument" recordings, these guys have had only a few years with this repertoire but the "inauthentic" folks had decades to digest. You take your choice.