One of the great piano concerti. Which are your favourite versions?
I'll kick off with a selection:
Kissin/Philh/Ashkenazy
Rana/RAI/Slobodeniouk
Krainev/Frankfurt/Kitaenko
Postnikova/USSR SSO/Rozhdestvensky
Berezovsky/Moscow Conservatoire/Temirkanov - 2016
Cherkassky/Philh/Menges
Cherkassky/LPO/Nagano
Bolet/Amer. SO/Stokowski 1971
Henriot-Schweitzer/BPO/Munch
Gutierrez/CGBO/Jarvi
Petrov/Swedish 1988 live
Beroff/Gewandhaus/Masur
Zak/Sanderling 1960s
Bavouzet/BBC/Noseda
I deliberately left out a few big names (Wang, Ashkenazy etc) because I preferred the above. Postnikova runs rings around Wang in this, just as one example, Rana is excellent and Henriot-Schweitzer does some original things. Despite its difficulty, this concerto doesn't scare off the good female pianists.
I'll kick off with a selection:
Kissin/Philh/Ashkenazy
Rana/RAI/Slobodeniouk
Krainev/Frankfurt/Kitaenko
Postnikova/USSR SSO/Rozhdestvensky
Berezovsky/Moscow Conservatoire/Temirkanov - 2016
Cherkassky/Philh/Menges
Cherkassky/LPO/Nagano
Bolet/Amer. SO/Stokowski 1971
Henriot-Schweitzer/BPO/Munch
Gutierrez/CGBO/Jarvi
Petrov/Swedish 1988 live
Beroff/Gewandhaus/Masur
Zak/Sanderling 1960s
Bavouzet/BBC/Noseda
I deliberately left out a few big names (Wang, Ashkenazy etc) because I preferred the above. Postnikova runs rings around Wang in this, just as one example, Rana is excellent and Henriot-Schweitzer does some original things. Despite its difficulty, this concerto doesn't scare off the good female pianists.