Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording


What would you choose if you only had one choice for the desert island?

Here’s one to start with:

J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations BMV 988

Glenn Gould (Zenph re-performance)

‘Sony Classical SACD

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Showing 2 responses by twoleftears

John O'Conor's traversal of the Beethoven sonatas on Telarc is very good.  As are plenty of other recordings.

There's a rather good movie out there called Eroica, made by Simon Cellan Jones.  As you might suspect, it features among other things a performance of that symphony.  For those just starting out with classical music, it demonstrates very well, I think, the nature of the transition between the Classical and Romantic periods.