Favorite solo piano players...cds

Clifford Curzon, Menahem Pressler, Murray Perahia, "Solomon" Cutner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dinu Lipatti.

Curzon: buy them all. Solomon's Beethoven recordings are nice. Lipatti: Chopin Waltzes; Ashkenazy has some nice Schuber sonata and Chopin prelude recording. Same for Perahia. Solo recording by Pressler are hard to find; most are with Beaux Arts Trio. I've heard him live in solo recital and its the best I've ever heard in person. I guess I will also throw in older recordings of Daniel Barenboim playing Mozart Sonatas (I have them on LP).

Dekay, please, for the love of god let everyone know that you were kidding about the dudly moore! :)

I agree with the keith jarrett-ers above and also ad - of course? - serkin doing moonlight sonata.

And...mcCoy tyner (of coltrane fame).

Nope, I wasn't. If we get the get together - together this summer I will play it for you. Remember, I only promised not to play Johnny Rivers. Dudly is a classically trained pianist and is a fine player of contemporary music. He played at a party which my wife attended in the 70's otherwise I probably would have never known about his talent.

Glen Gould, Bach's "Goldberg Variations". Same, by Andres Schiff. Recordings of Murray Perahia and Claudio Arrau.

yes Keith Jarrett of course, and Paul Bley has some beautiful solo piano albums out. for duo there's a nice one I've been listening to lately- also recorded well- Kenny Barron & Charlie Haden. For more on the classical side: I like, (as others have said) Murray Perahia for Chopin, (that 70's recording of sonatas # 2&3 is sooo nice), besides all the others... Andras Schiff for Bartok, oh- and Zoltan Kocsis plays Debussy beautifully. What I've really been blown away with recently though is a 2CD set of Messiaen's "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus" played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, on the Teldec label. WOW! Amazing playing, and writing. and recorded well to boot, albeit it maybe a bit bright.. worth checking out, especially if you like Messiaen.