Recommend Classical Piano LP's

I like the Arrau Chopin recordings as well, and just found them all on LP not long ago. One of my very favorite pianists who I see no one has mentioned yet on this thread is Alicia deLarrocha. Wonderful Spanish pianist who had a very long career, in fact was still playing as recently as three or four years ago. Made lots of wonderful recordings of a very wide variety of rep.

My other very favorite would be Alfred Brendel. Pretty much anything by him is guaranteed to be a wonderful musical experience as well. I wish I could find a complete set of his early recordings of the Beethoven piano works on LP, but that's very hard to come by, especially for a decent price.

Learsfool, I recently got hold of both the US Vox early Brendel Beethoven sonatas and the Intercord/FSM version from Europe. I haven't properly cleaned or compared them yet. I got the US version from Irvmusic.com. Very nice people. I just called and asked if they had them, and they did (and may have more--they have a huge collection). The EU Brendel box I got from 33rpm.de, a German 2nd hand Lp dealer that is terrific, and fairly reasonable in prices (seems to me). Great source of interesting material. (Actually, I think I got a 2nd copy of the EU set from Ebay...they can be found...)

I'd like to send another big "thanks" to everyone who gave suggestions. I received an order yesterday with two LP's suggested on this thread - Nojima Plays Revel (RR label) and Rubenstein's Chopin: Preludes Op. 28 (RCA). While these are both excellent renderings, I especially like the Nojima LP ... very well recorded, relaxing, with great piano work. This is just what the doctor ordered. It's a great start and I'll probably pick up 2 or 3 albums. The Rubenstein piece (though not exactly as recommended) is quite nice in a general sense. It is reminiscent of an excellent CD recording I picked up as a result of another A-gon posting that discussed great piano work:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&984287002&openflup&105&4#105

This might not be your typical audiophile stuff, but for years now, Scott Cossu's "Reunion" cd has been transporting me to that special tranquility place. It features piano, cello and some beautiful melodies.

Tamas Vasary's Chopin on DG.. Excellent performance to go with nice recording...