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Subject: Favorite recordings of keyboard music
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 16:59:53 EDT
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I greatly prefer playing music to listening to records, so my
collection is fairly small.  Here are some of my favorites:

Piano Music of Erik Satie, Vol. 1, Aldo Ciccolini (Angel 35442)

Cesar Franck, Works for Piano, Joerg Demus (MHS 1152)
  This record features Franck's two masterpieces for piano
  "Prelude, Choral and Fugue" and "Prelude, Aria and Finale"
  which exemplify the "cyclic" structure where, in a multi-movement
  work, themes are shared between movements.  Liszt's B minor
  Sonata is another example (although it is essentially 1 movement).

Wanda Landowska/ Bach Goldberg Variations (RCA VIC-1650)
  Everyone has their own favorite recording of the Goldberg Variations,
  and this is mine.  The piano just does not make it for this work.
  Landowska's harpsichord playing is full of personal touches, while
  staying within what I think was Bach's intended style.

Sviatoslav Richter/ Beethoven Sonata op. 57 (Appassionata) (ARTIA MK 1550)
  This is a Russian recording of a live performance.  The last movement
  is played with complete, fiery abandon, the most exciting ten minutes
  of recorded music I have ever heard.  Richter later made a studio
  recording which had no mistakes (here, he slightly botches the
  final arpeggios) but doesn't have the same fire.

Oscar Peterson/ Tracks (Pausa 7119)
  If you enjoy piano music, you HAVE to hear this record (or anything
  else by Oscar; this is a solo record so you get to hear more of him).
  In terms of phrasing, structure, dynamic range, polyphony and
  virtuosity, this music has strong "classical" elements.