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    One more which could also possibly be my favourite is Howard Shelley's recording. The sound quality is exemplary, he is very expressive , there are no technical faults, the orchestra is fantastic and he plays it a Schumann's set tempo which is very interesting.

    You can sample the start of the different movements here. https://www.highresaudio.com/artist.php?abid=18034

    You may also want to look at this booklet in which he explains his interpretation of the concerto. You can download it from here. http://www.chandos.net/CD_Notes.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010509

    I have just listened to the recording by Emil von Sauer. It is nice but I couldn't live with such an awful recording quality.

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    Hi Air.

    I have noticed your enthusiasm for Schumann. Especially for his pino concerto so I just thought I would recommend you van Cliburn's performance of it. Absolutely stunning.

    :)

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    No, I think I will have to continue my boycott until Seattle gets an expansion team.

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    Hello Air,
    You recently 'liked' a post of mine, mentioning Perlemuter in relation to Ravel's music. Im not an expert on piano music at all, but I had always heard Perlemuter was an authority on Ravel. No one in this thread mentioned Perlemuter. What do you think of his Ravel recordings?

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    Ooo tough one. Actually the ones you mention are some of my favourites. I don't like Cziff, though. Arrau is probably my favourite at the moment. That delicious weighty tone...Although there are a few recordings of him i'm not that fond of. Yeah Bolet and Richter (what isn't he good at?) too. I also love Zimerman in the little he's played. I pretty much put his Piano Concerti, Totentanz, Sonata, and some assorted late pieces as exemplary...he just hasn't played that much. Of course there is Leslie Howard, but it isn't that he's that great, just that he has recorded great works that very few have. Past that it gets a bit iffy. The Liszt catologue is huge and all over the place and right now i'm really trying to sort what pianists play what well. I've really been looking into some more lesser known stuff lately. Such a genius composer once you filter out his better stuff!

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    That's fine :)

    Anything, old or new, so both. Doesn't matter when or where or whoit's from, just rather what the best recordings are!

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    For sure :) Well i've been listening to his piano music a fair bit, but just random assorted youtube recordings. I'd love recommendations for the best recordings of the essential piano music, like the Fantasy, Kreisleriana, Symphonic Etudes, Sonatas, Davidsbündlertänze, the Piano Concerto...All them. At least just to start of with :D

    Thanks! :)

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    Greetings Air :)

    How are you today? I've been really getting into Schumanns music over youtube lately. The good Klavierspieler referred me to you for recommendations of Schumann recordings to start a little Schumann collection with. What would you recommend?

    Thanks.

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    Yes, I've found it, concerto is with Rowicki and Introduction/Allegro with Wisłocki. Gonna get it - thank you.

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    I've just heard Introduction and Allegro Apassionato and loved it but it's from Romantic Piano Concerto series and seems to me as not first class recording - could you recommend one-two of best recordings of this work?

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    Absolutely! Richter is my favorite also, despite my name and avatar. Funny story about that, actually: I was looking on this forum for the first time, and was about to make a Richter account/avatar, but then I saw that you had already used the avatar I had in mind and thought the whole idea would be unoriginal!

    I am probably a little biased on the Pierne, though. I play it myself and love it to death. I really wish one of the great pianists had recorded the work, I think I recall an entry in Richter's notebooks where he described it as 'Very convincing'. If only he had played it :(

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    I understand. I'll definitely nominate it later, because I think it's one of the most effective and constantly interesting concerti ever written, but for now hopefully some Bach (d minor and g minor please!) keyboard concerti can slip in, and maybe Scriabin. I love your avatar by the way! I'm on my 5th reading of Notebooks and Conversations right now and fear I'm becoming obsessed xD

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    You're a Robert Schumann nut. I just picked up his complete piano solo music (Brilliant Classics label 13 CDs, various artists, pictured in "Latest Purchase" thread). I have been familiar with some pieces but now that it's all there and "the price is right", so why not?! His solo piano works have this mercurial fluidity that surpassed many of his contemporaries'. For example, Schubert wrote a lot of piano music but it was obviously vocal in idiom, not really that pianistic but Schumann was able to strike a beautiful balance between pianistic lyricism and Romantic emotions, if I could put it that way.
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