Classical Music for Aficionados

I have "The Chopin Collection" by Rubinstein, but it is 11 cds.  Wondering what I am missing?  It is on RCA label.There are so many great recordings of Chopin by so many great pianists that I cannot begin to name a favorite.

Cal91, I probably should have mentioned - re Moravec's Chopin, I started with his Nocturnes on an Electra Nonsuch disc(s) presently available of Amazon.  Outstanding and well worth the price.

Dont forget Antonio Barbosa in the Mazurkas..... A natural and humility, and rythmical sense outstanding.... My 2 best Chopin with Moravec....

In the roots system of Chopin’s Tree, one of his root is Domenico Scarlatti sonatas.... If you want to know why? Listen to the Zacharias version in 3 cd.... Pure marvel....My best Scarlatti pianist....Zacharias has forgot the virtuoso side and will deepen the pure interiority....Chopin get it immediately for sure....For example so good is Pogorelich Scarlatti and it is for sure, i prefer the poetic playing of Zacharias...

When someone must or may listen the same cd a thousand times his requirement are very different than when someone gives a few listenings only.... I discover gladly something new, but my listening is made of 80% of ancient favorites players or works that i had listen to hundred or thousand times....i owned 8000 cd and files....Most i had listen 1 or 2 times only.... Some thousand times, for example Bach.... I dream each day to discover something i will be pleased and able to listen to without end like Bach clavier works.... The Moravec and Barbosa Chopin are on this level for me....

My criteria is not then, is this interpretation good, but is this interpretation able to please me till my death each day, or each week, or each month, or each year?  Because for sure we cannot listen to some works each day but only in some days and not other days... There exist many good interpretation of a work, but very few if not only one that will make you happy till death.....


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~~~Allan Pettersson~~~~ syms 5-15

@mahgister   Hi I have been listening to Zacharias playing Scarlatti for a lot of the day on and off and have to say that I can see a lot of wonderful musicmaking there. The only thing I have to say is that he does play them quite literally with not a lot of feeling there but yes I can see why you are enamoured of them. 
I have to pin my colours to another mast though, Mikhail Pletnev's accounts to me are quite literally poles apart with lots of colour injected and a blistering virtuoso technique. We must remember that Scarlatti was a virtuoso of the highest order and tasked with teaching a princess and later Queen of Portugal who was quite a virtuoso herself. In their day velocity was a pre requisite and a great few of his sonatas were written with that in mind. I have heard Pletnev play a lot of times but only heard him play Scarlatti twice and as encores. His first was the D minor one K517 and a blistering account it was and he was giving washes of colour with pedal being used liberally. The next one he played was the B minor K27 which I did not really appreciate from his record but live the accents on loud and soft playing was incredible. I have to say those two sonatas were what I had taken home with me that night.