Classical Music for Aficionados

Thanks for tip.

As far as Schubert pianists go, there are many.
Brendel, Lupu, Richter and Perahia are a good place to start.

Radu Lupu , Murray Perahia,Mitsuko Uchida and Alfred Berendel are some of the go-to Schubert players . As for sound Phillips went all out for
Uchida , a wonderful pianist .The best single piano recording I have heard of Schubert is his "Wandererfantasie" Op.D760 with Maurizio Pollini on
DG .which is a 1973 recording that has remastered very well in my Hears .Schubert’s two Piano Trios are some of the most beautiful music ever written ,an excellent recording in all respects is the Beaux Arts effort onPhillips .
 woops rv,  I see you got in as I was righting ! Hmm , great minds think alike and that .I thought of Richter too but he's had a lot on not so great sound put on him.

Right you are, schubert.
 I guess those five are a pretty safe bet.

For any of you guys who like me listen to your music via a PC I have a superb little app for you. It is absolutely free and works a treat. It comes from a software company called O and O software and is called Windows 10 Shut Up . It silences all the background chatter on Windows 10 while you are listening to your music and with all the rubbish silenced your music sounds cleaner and more dynamic. Because your processor is not under so much stress it can concentrate so to speak on  the programs that you are using at the time. Do at least give it a try because as stated previously it is free and off your pc in a couple of mouse clicks

@jim204,
I may have mentioned it, but I use something called Fidelizer, which seems to do much the same as O&O.
I might just give it a try and compare the two software platforms.
I am also in the middle of trying a new streamer- Laufer Teknik’s Mini-baby brother to The Memory Player, which uses some proprietary software to provide higher resolution of digital signals.
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Who knew that Massenet wrote a piano concerto?  Clearly I'd forgotten, as I have the Hyperion CD.  I'm enjoying it enormously; it is a bit all over the place, musically speaking, but enjoyable nonetheless, and the recording is splendid.

@gdnrbob  
I also tried Fideliser but got fed up with it and Instead bought some soft ware through Sam Laufer. It  was form Mark Porzilli the guy who dreamt up the Memory player and your machine is probably using it also. That soft ware was the one that really made my PC sing, I remember that during the installation Mark himself did it and he had partitioned a part of my hard drive into a 4 gig. space to put your music files that you were going to play. I was astonished the first time I played a file and I even remember the file "Mahler's second Symphony" off a DSD file cut from an SACD disc with The LSO cond, by Valery Gergiev . It absolutely blew me away The opening was earth shattering and the last movement opening was cataclysmic . The amount of headroom that recording had just had to be heard to be believed. That was a great day I had listening to files one after another and where the software scores is the increase in clarity right through the frequency range. The area most apparent was the treble it has a beautiful purity to it and it was worth the money just for that alone.     

Teed up for this afternoon is Ignaz Brull.  Thank you, Hyperion!  Concerto #1 kind of ho-hum.  Some nice moments in the slow movement.  The separate Andante rather better.  Now the opening of #2 is quite stirring.

And here's a related general observation, FWIW.  I see clearly that my collecting (CDs) and listening is primarily repertoire based.  Certainly, performers matter a great deal, but I look at the performers once I'm looking for recordings of a particular piece.  Looking at posts on this thread, it seems as if most others take the opposite approach: they have a bunch of favorite performers, and repertoire comes second (different repertoires are what certain performers specialize in).  Discuss??

Chopin Nocturnes with Hans Moravec, pianist with so "delicate" color control that God prefer this version...

Mahgister,

Are you sure you don’t mean IVAN Moravec?
A HANS Moravec is into robotics.

mahgister, FWIW, I think God prefers all of Moravec's music. He didn't record a lot but what he did is well worth hearing. I can recommend some more if your interested. 

twoleftears, I'm not sure what caused you to reach your conclusions, but I think it may be an illusion caused by some folks who have been around music for generations and have substantial familiarity with a lot of the great performers and the music in which they may excel. In the beginning I think most folks are repertoire based and become more artist oriented later after knowledge of the standard repertoire has been acquired. 

For example, I happen to like Massenet's PC also  (I have the same  Hyperion version as you.) I also happen to like a newer pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. I found a CD in which he performs some Ravel, Debussy, and the Massenet. I bought it and was not disappointed, in either composers music, but especially his Debussy.  I went on to purchase all of his Debussy recordings as well. I like his style a great deal and will now likely follow most all of his recordings for something else that I might enjoy.  Oh, and I liked his Massenet  much more than Ossonce's. BTW that is a Chandos CD if you're interested. 

I apologize for my confusion Rvpiano.... For sure Ivan and not Hans Moravec that think robot will think in some days to come... For Ivan Moravec I had listen to all his cd, and he is in a class of his own, an aquarellist able to nuance with astounding singing perfection... If you compare any of his interpretation with any other great pianist you will hear his unique touch...He is equal to the greatest … You are right Newbee, we are in the same club...My best to you...

By the way another one of my idols is :

Ervin Nyiregyházi,he is perhaps the greatest pianist that ever be with Scriabin,Rachmaninoff,Liszt,Barrere,Sofronitsky,Moravec,Feinberg,Neuhaus and not many more...If you doubt it, read the letter that Schoenberg wrote to the young Klemperer, after listening a concert of him... I dont think that Schoenberg takes times to notice any pianist ,as great as it is, and write a raving piece about it, mostly when the pianist interpretation contradict his own esthetic like Nyiregyhasi; his letter begins in incredulity and ends in an extasy with an invitation for Klemperer to comes and listening to him...Then you will know that it is not my own single opinion...Listen to that and your heart will melt or open without limit.... Liszt indeed was a great great composer,it takes a Nyiregyhazi to play it...Manifestation of divinity at this level in the art of interpretation are rare indeed...I am in love with Liszt now more than ever, guess why?

He plays here Oberman valley of Liszt, in the slowest and the thunderous heartfelt version of this opus that exist on earth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk6vqaxU1Y&list=PLnQJF3Qi_4_CLUPjzY3hqtkR1OBfPKOYY

Even Richter in the same piece cannot touch the stellar power of this god, any other pianist is truly at most only a giant compared to this god indeed...

To conclude I will only add that if Bach is  the first proof of the existence of God(dixit Emil Cioran) I will say that Nyiregyhazy playing is the second proof for me...

testing

I was somehow banned for the past several days, and now this has apparently been corrected
thank you Tammy
My comment which was banned is simple.
thanks to mahgister for introducing Nyiregyhazy

there is a lot of him on youtube and i like some of it a lot