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mwhitmore's thread got me to wondering about other opinions on great sounding solo piano recordings...open to all styles or genres as long as you feel the recording is well pressed, clear and great sounding
artist/label etc....and vinyl
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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Debussy Images on DGG is also superb.
Enjoy the music.
Arthur Salvatore says that the BEETHOVEN-PIANO SONATA NO.23 (APPASSIONATA)-KAMIYA-RCA RDCE-4 (45 RPM) "is the finest piano recording I have yet heard."
"The sonics are outstanding, with the piano recorded very upfront, so it appears to be in the listening room itself. The dynamic gradations, transparency, detail retrieval and cleanness on peaks are all extraordinary. It is also natural sounding with an excellent sense of decay and a low sound-floor."
I have the LP and agree that it is excellent.
Yes, this record is absolutely fantastic sonically. The performance is rather unforgiving, however. My wife won't let me play it when she is in the room. Your cartridge has to be in good shape to play it. I also have RDCE-1, which is contemporary music for flute and percussion, which I also think is incredibly sonically. I like the music too.
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I recommend the 2-record set "Portraits" by Jessica Williams on Adelphi label... if you can find it.
Where to start, indeed.
Maurizio Pollini recordings on DGG is always fantastic (very 'weighty and completely silent in the groove); someone had mentioned Jarrett on ECM; IMO, anything Glenn Gould on the CBS Masterworks seris (and others which I cannot recall at the moment)...sublime.
Everything I own by Ivan Moravec has great sonics, Beethoven, Debussey, Chopin.
He is one of my favorites but I don't think i can call any of his LPs or CDs with one exception, the Athena reissue, "great" sounding. Good yes but not great. I would actually love to see one of the top reissue labels do a set from his CS catalog. I think the potential is their for great sound in the hands of the right mastering engineer
You're right. Listened to his Beethoven yesterday; a "good recording" - mid-hall perspective - maybe a "very good" recording, but not state-of-the-art.
I was fooled by the incandescent music-making, as I often am.
Where to begin?!
I've got some Art Tatum and Fats Waller 78s that are absolutely amazing. Probably not up to "audiophile" standards for sound quality being 70+ year old recordings, but incredible music nevertheless.
I have two that I keep coming back to, so I think that must qualify them as amazing.
Sviatoslav Richter plays Schubert: Sonata in D Major OP. 53 Monitor MC2043
This recording has an up close perspective, with power and dynamics that demand attention.
Beethoven Sonatas "Appassionata" and Sonata in E flat. Opus 7 Russell Sherman piano Sine Qua Non Superba SAS2023
I really enjoy this album - it seems like the piano is in the room. Tomlinson Holman is listed as an engineer on this 1978 recording.
The Kissin 'Pictures at an Exhibition' on RCA is incredibally dynamic and will really show if your system compresses. And I enjoy the piano, original, version of this piece a lot.
This is available on vinyl?
Would love to have more information, please - like catalog #, possible source.
I second Keith Jarrett on ECM.
But also I am very surprised that no one brought up Bill Evans, either Waltz for Debby (but I have grown tired of that tune) or Live at the Village Vanguard. Even the Redbook CD of the latter is good. Also, any or all of those 5 recordings that Oscar Peterson made in the home of a physician. (Cannot recall any of the titles.)
"South Side Memories" on the Sackville Label (3032 IIRC)
Also - on CD only - Dick Wellstood - "A Night In Dublin" taped by an amateur recordist to boot. Arbors ARCD-19241.
You might also enjoy Randy Weston "Blues To Africa" on Arista Freedon LP AL-1014. "Kasbah Kids" alone is worth the price of admission
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Mussorgsky; Pictures at an Exhibition, Ginastera; Sonata No. 1, Op.22
Hyperion Knight, Piano
Wilson Audiophile Definitive Recording (Wilson Audio W-9025)
Recorded by David Wilson of Wilson Audio.
The Mastering Lab did the cutting
The piano is in your living room on this one. Trust me!!!
"If the audio industry built gear that sounded as good as it did 50 years ago, there would NEVER be a need to re-issued anything!"
Probably the best piano recording in my collection.
Can yo give me specifics (i.e. label, catalog number, etc.)? I love his sound.
IIRC, that's the same picture of him that is on the LP I mentioned! Neat!!!
"If the audio industry built gear that sounded as good as it did 50 years ago, there would NEVER be a need to re-issued anything!"
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Thanks! I'll have to look for that.
"If the audio industry built gear that sounded as good as it did 50 years ago, there would NEVER be a need to re-issued anything!"
Might be a little hard to find, but worth the hunt.
V.1 through 10, although IIRC one volume is CD only?
Great stuff, musically diverse though "jazz" and very nicely recorded.
He's not as well known as he should be (of course)...
Nimbus label.
+1 on this. Make that +100. These kind of changed my whole world around...
Often audiophile labels do a great job of recording less than stellar artists. There are exceptions.
Two that come to mind are the Nojima recordings on Reference Recordings of Liszt and Ravel
I believe the catalog numbers are RR-25 and RR-35
excellent sound to say the least.
For classical, try Claudio Arrau on Philips playing Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Brahms and Debussy. Most if not all of these were recorded in the Amsterdam Concergebouw concert hall, justly famous for its acoustics, by Philips engineers who knew not to mess with a good thing.
Get Some Keith Jarret Ecm label
koln Concert,Bremen lausanne concerts
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