Amazing Solo Piano Recordings

If you like Chick Corea check out Piano Improvisations Volumes 1 & 2 (ECM) and Standards 1 & 2.

Bach - Golberg Variations - Glenn Gould ( 1981 )

Just discovered:
Piotr Anderszewski playing the Bagatelles op.126 by Beethoven om Virgin Classics. There is also Beethovens Piano Concerto No 1 on the same CD with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen, but that is not much to write home about. The Bagatelles are absolutely stunning however and extremely well recorded. A good CD to test the dynamics of your system by the way. It almost goes from pppp to ffff, if your system can render it. We got the best dynamic rendering with the Spoiler/Pacecar Combo via USB Cable from a Toshiba laptop with special music-software. Much better than through the Zanden Combo or the dcs -stack with upsampling.

Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues. Amazing music.
Try Konstantin Scherbakov on Naxis for this. Very affordable 2-disc set and very good performance.

Audphil, it is amazing music indeed. Scherbakow's rendering on Naxos is excellent to my mind and also those of Keith Jarret and Vladimir Ashekenase, however to my taste Tatiana Nikolajewa has best covered the spirit of these pieces.