[quote=“TheGingerMan”]Recently have been getting into Grieg, Dvorak, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Debussy.
All in all, wonderful stuff. Though I have a hard time finding some quality recordings in Taiwan. I usually order most of my stuff from Amazon.[/quote]
What recordings do you like of each? I listened to a bit of those computers, a lot more of Rachmaninoff. Know about the jazz version of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Deodato? He also does an amazing Thus Spoke Zarathustra, both on the Prelude album.
It’s nice a lot of the romantic pianists generally play the most popular pieces.
Myself, my favorite performers are Horowitz, Richter, and Gilels. Gilels rach 3 is wonderful. I think I have his tchaikovsky 1 but I haven’t listened to it much yet.
For pieces I keep listening to:
Liszt no.2 - Richter/Kondrashin/LSO. The studio recording also became available a few years ago.
Tchaikovsky no.1 - Horowitz/Snell. I also have the two Toscanini’s. looking for Horowitz/Walter. I also have Gilels, van Cliburn, Richter, Argerich maybe, Rubinstein (w the grieg), but i haven’t tried them much
Rach no.2 - Richter.
Rach no.3 - Horowitz (Reiner i think), Gilels, used to listen to Argerich. have at least 8+ more recordings including the 10 CD box set of Rach himself.
I think Liszt no.2 and Tchai no.1 are the only ones I listen to multiple times a week.
Paray has done Debussy’s prelude. I’ve been looking for it for ages.