Hofmann – Erlkonig, Tarantella, Campanella
Fiorentino – Vision
Richter – Wilde Jagd, Liszt piano concerti (studio)
Horowitz – Liebesbotschaft, Paganini etudes 2 and 5, B minor sonata 1932
Ginzburg – Das Wandern, Wohin, Années Bk 1
Cziffra – Les Jeux d’eaux à la villa d’Este (studio)
Lipatti – Sonetto del Petrarca 104
Rachmaninoff – Das Wandern, Standchen
I don’t think I quite got to 20 but I think it might get a bit hazy after this.
It’s very hard for me not to include at least something from Arrau but I can’t think of any particular recording which stands out above the rest.
Overall, I love his Liszt.
There’s also Liszt that I love enough to include on a desert island without having an entirely satisfactory version of (except that which I hear in my mind) such as FF and the Via Crucis.
The young Horowitz was basically the perfect pianist imo.
Imagine if he were as well documented at that stage of his career as pianists like YW are today.
I think I once downloaded quite a few of his recordings from this blog: nealshistorical.wordpress.com/2 … -complete/
Doesn’t look as if they’re still available over there. Let me know if any of you is interested, I could try to dig them up.
I can’t believe I forgot Horowitz’s Valse Oubliée (from his first recordings).
That is actually probably my favourite of his early recordings, along with 10/8.
Need a recording of the Norma Fantasy; maybe Lewenthal, Bolet is too slow and increasingly splashy.
Likewise I couldn’t be without a Liebestod, but I’ve spent so much time on it that I dislike 90% of recordings.
Maybe Berman Vallee d’Obermann.
Can’t make up my mind re Dante.
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