Recommended Recordings
Solo Piano – Composer
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Albeniz: Iberia/Granados: Goyescas (de Larrocha)
Alkan: Concerto for solo piano; Troisième recueil de chants (Hamelin)
Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano (Hamelin)
Alkan: Grande sonate, ‘Les quatre âges’, Sonatine, Le festin d’Esope (Hamelin)
Alkan: Marc-André Hamelin Live at Wigmore Hall
Bach: English Suites (Complete) (Hewitt)
Bach: Fantasia in C minor; 2- and 3-Part Inventions; Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue (Hewitt)
Bach: French Overture, Italian Concerto, etc (Hewitt)
Bach: French Suites (Hewitt)
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Hewitt)
Bach: Partitas No. 1, 5 & 6 (Perahia)
Bach: Partitas Nos. 2-4 (Perahia)
Bach: Toccatas (Hewitt)
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (Hewitt)
Barber: Sonata No. 1 / Excursions (Beus)
Bartók: Zoltán Kocsis plays Bartók [Box Set]
Beethoven: Piano Variations; Bagatelles [Box Set] (Brendel)
Beethoven-Liszt: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Katsaris)
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano (Katchen)
Chopin: Complete Works for Piano (various artists)
Chopin: Ballades; Third Sonata (Demidenko)
Chopin: Études, Op. 10/Rondos, Opp. 1, 5, 16, 73 (Chiu)
Chopin: Études, Op. 25 (Chiu)
Chopin: Impromptus/Fantaisie Impromptu/Barcarolle/Berceuse (Perahia)
Chopin: Mazurkas; Impromptus; Berceuse (Uninsky)
Chopin: Nocturnes (Barenboim)
Chopin: Polonaises (Ohlsson, Smith)
Chopin: Preludes (Sokolov)
Chopin: Scherzi; Variations (Demidenko)
Chopin: Sonatas; Etudes (Ashkenazy)
Chopin: Waltzes (Tharaud)
Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 (Bavouzet)
Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2 (Bavouzet)
Debussy: Complete Works For Piano, Vol. 3 (Bavouzet)
Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 4 (Bavouzet)
Debussy: Complete Works for Piano Vol. 5 (Bavouzet)
Fauré: The Complete Music for Piano (Stott, Roscoe)
Ginastera: Music for Piano (Rodriguez)
Godowsky: The Complete Studies on Chopin’s Etudes (Hamelin)
Grainger: Piano Music (Hamelin)
Granados (de Larrocha)
Granados: Spanish Dances (de Larrocha)
Grieg: The Complete Piano Music (Knardahl)
Handel: Suites for Keyboard (Jarrett)
Haydn: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Box Set) (Jando)
Haydn: Complete Piano Concertos (Box Set) (Palumbo)
Kabalevsky: Preludes (Complete); Preludes and Fugues (Dossin)
Kabalevsky: Sonatas (Complete) (Dossin)
Kapustin: Piano Music (Hamelin)
Kapustin: Piano Music (Osborne)
Ligeti Edition Vol. 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) (Aimard)
Ligeti Edition Vol. 6: Keyboard Works (Piano, Harpsichord, Organ) (Kataeva / Aimard)
Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Paganini Études; Mephisto Waltz (Kuleshov)
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies, Vol. 1 (Jando)
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies, Vol.2 (Jando)
Liszt: Demidenko Plays Liszt (Sonata, Legendes, Scherzo and March)
Liszt: Hexaméron; Symphonie Fantastique (Howard)
Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Frith)
Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (Frith)
Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 3 (Frith)
Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 4 (Frith)
Mendelssohn: Piano Works, Vol. 5 (Frith)
Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations (Barenboim)
Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition (Kissin)
P.D.Q. Bach: The Short-Tempered Clavier (O’Riley)
Poulenc: Complete Works for Piano (Parkin)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 4 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 6 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 8 (Berman)
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 9 (Berman)
Rachmaninov: Complete Piano Music [Box Set] (Shelley)
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Music (Hewitt)
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Hamelin)
Saint-Saëns: Complete Works for Piano (Dosse)
Satie: Complete Solo Piano Music (Thibaudet)
Scarlatti: Complete Sonatas [Box Set] (Belder on piano)
Schubert: Impromptus, Moments Musicaux, Klavierstuke, German Dances (Brendel)
Schubert: Sonatas [Box Set] (Kempff)
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy (Pollini)
Schumann: Complete Piano Works (Frankl, Schmitt-Leonardy & Wurtz
Schumann, Clara: Complete Piano Works (Beenhouwer)
Scriabin: Etudes (Ohlsson)
Scriabin: Mazurkas (LeVan)
Scriabin: Preludes (Diev)
Scriabin: Poems, Waltzes, Dances (Wang)
Scriabin: Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Glemser)
Scriabin: Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Glemser)
Shostakovich: Piano Music; Chamber Works [Box Set] (Ashkenazy)
or, for just Preludes & Fugues: Melnikov’s recording
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Pétrouchka etc. (Kissin)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Music Vol. 1 (Ponti)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonatas (Howard)
Villa-Lobos: Complete Piano Music (Rubinsky)
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