Best piano version of Moonlight Sonata?

v. ashkenazy- london- the big 3 beethoven sonatas.
just a terrific beethoven/mozart/chopin etc. player.
saw him once. never missed a beat for 2 hrs by himself.
totally effortless- makes it look so easy.

The Ashkenazy 23,21,14 on London are a very involving interpretation.

I also enjoy those three (Appassionata, Waldstein, Moonlight) on another London recording by Friedrich Gulda.
(London Treasury Series STS 15584)

As a follow up to my previous post, the Gulda readings from London are actually a 1983 reissue of an earlier Decca recording from 1973.

Thanks everyone, for your excellent recommendations! I spent a large portion of today at Amazon researching each one and had a blast doing it. One thing I can't figure out - why is the Goode so polarizing? It seems some people love it and others can't stand it. In any case, I couldn't pick just one so I ordered the Kempff 32 sonata set on DG and the Ashkenazy popular sonatas on London for a different perspective.

Kempff and Ashkenazy are both exceptional choices and would probably be my two safest recommendations. Gould was brilliant, but his style is polarizing and the re-edits he did on many of his recordings just drive me insane from an audio perspective. I'm embarassed to admit that they taint my enjoyment of some of his pieces.

Notable in its absence thus far is mention of Solomon... he is responsible for my favorite interpretation of this particular piece. Well, favorite at the moment ;) Still, brilliant.

Other votes from around here (work) are: Horowitz, & Richter