Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording

An impossible choice, but I would nominate Brendel’s Phillips recording of Schubert’s last 3 sonatas

@mahler123

An impossible choice, but I would nominate Brendel’s Phillips recording of Schubert’s last 3 sonatas

Yes, excellent. Schubert was late Classical, unlike Liszt who clearly was not and someone who must be clueless about all matters musical sparks up to recommend Liszt as Classical, rather than Romantic.

That post by @mikelavigne must be bookmarked under the new favourites folder titled Clueless.

To be fair, I think there may be some confusion here with terminology.  There is a Genre (I hate that term, but it’s useful here) of Classical Music, and then within that Genre there is the Classical Period, the dates of which were supplied by another poster.

  I took the OP to mean any recording within the genre, not the historical period.  The recording that the OP cites is of Baroque Music, albeit on a more modern instrument than the Composer would have known.

  The Vikingur Olaffson Debussy/Ravel disc cited previously is another stunner

With the Advent season here and the holidays season in swing ….

CHEMAYNE MICALLEF - CHRISTMAS PIANO


,,, a Christmas CD that’s a very nice subdued background for Traditional holiday songs that are performed with a classical touch.

Back in 2012  Christmas Piano was named as one of the Top 10 Classical Music Christmas Albums in a New York Times/About.com review .

https://www.allmusic.com/album/christma ... 0000782958 

Yes, I would have to agree that Glenn Gould's recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations must be among my favorite classical solo piano pieces, although he was more famous for his unique interpretations as opposed to the standard, establishment interpretations.  Another one of my favorite classical solo piano pieces are any of Chopin's works performed by Claudio Arrau, who, again, was probably more famous because of his unique interpretations.