Favorite solo piano players...cds

Try the Telarc recording Rachmaninoff, A Window In Time cd (1998). The music is excellent and the recording of the Bosendorfer 290SE reproducing piano is stellar. It is absolutely one of the best recorded piano performances I have on disk. Some of the recordings by Evgeny Kissin are very good too and his performance is always on top.

Chris

I will second the Kieth Jarret Koln concert . If you like Beethoven, Robert Silverman does all 32 piano sonatas on a 10 CD set. I think I got this set direct from Stereophile magazine. I am rather spoiled,since my wife plays the piano and the sounds of live piano in your own home are hard to beat.

Clifford Curzon, Menahem Pressler, Murray Perahia, "Solomon" Cutner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dinu Lipatti.

Curzon: buy them all. Solomon's Beethoven recordings are nice. Lipatti: Chopin Waltzes; Ashkenazy has some nice Schuber sonata and Chopin prelude recording. Same for Perahia. Solo recording by Pressler are hard to find; most are with Beaux Arts Trio. I've heard him live in solo recital and its the best I've ever heard in person. I guess I will also throw in older recordings of Daniel Barenboim playing Mozart Sonatas (I have them on LP).

Dekay, please, for the love of god let everyone know that you were kidding about the dudly moore! :)

I agree with the keith jarrett-ers above and also ad - of course? - serkin doing moonlight sonata.

And...mcCoy tyner (of coltrane fame).

Nope, I wasn't. If we get the get together - together this summer I will play it for you. Remember, I only promised not to play Johnny Rivers. Dudly is a classically trained pianist and is a fine player of contemporary music. He played at a party which my wife attended in the 70's otherwise I probably would have never known about his talent.