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Re Argerich. Most of her recordings are for DG and their 'Tonemeisters' usually roll off the lower registers in their recordings.

Hey Shubertmaniac!! Who is your favorite keyboard person on the D959 and D960?
Yo Yo Ma outstanding but he's not quite Janos Starker on the inner emotion side

Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead!

Frap:Don't forget D958, the first sonata in his trio of piano sonatas. Alfred Brendl. The reason being in my distant
past I was a very poor undergrad. I could only afford the el
cheapo vinyl like the Vox label. I got hooked on Schubert
very early and the only thing I could afford was Brendl's
versions of Schubert's piano music. So I played that stuff
over and over and really got so atuned to his playing that
listening to other artists recordings did not seem quite
right, even though other artists interpretation might prove
to be correct or to other listeners more moving. Oh well.

Shubertmaniac makes a good point. I've always liked Murray Perihia's CBS recording of the Schubert Impromptus, not for sonic reasons or necessarily for performance reasons, but because it is well-played and the first recording I ever heard of the piece, and I liked the music and kept listening to it. When I think of it, many of the performances of classical pieces I like best are the first ones I heard of them (for example, the Richter Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto, which is quite different than any other I've heard, and Rubenstein's performance of the Rhapsodies on a Theme of Paganini). Hasn't stopped me from listening to or enjoying other interpretations, fortunately, but the first ones are the ones I wind up comparing all others to.