Unmissable Piano Concertos' Recordings      Unmissable Piano C...      Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 Sergey Rachmaninov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1996 A performance that will live as long as recorded music + Almost the Best + Richter's version of Rachmaninov's Second is the one all others are measured against and for good reason! + Eloquence with hands of steel and a heart of fire             Dvorak: Piano Concerto; Schubert: 'Wanderer' Fantasy / Richter, Kleiber Antonin Dvorak, Franz Schubert, ... EMI Classics, 1999 Lyrical Side to Richter in Dvorak and a fine Schubert too + The Snobs are Wrong - This is an Underrated Concerto + A great finding! The legendary pianist Sviatoslav Richter offers one of the most compelling, lyrical performances of Dvorak's piano concerto in this excellent recording with Carlos Kleiber leading the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. This concerto is a precursor to the great "symphonic" concertos composed by ...             Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos / Radu Lupu, André Previn Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, ... Decca, 2000 Interpretative excellence! + dramatic concertos + Excellent from start to finish + Bought it for the Grieg             Prokofiev: The Five Piano Concertos Sergey Prokofiev, André Previn, ... Decca, 1997 Magnificent achievement! + Brilliant sonics and fine, assured playing + Monochrome austerity + Superb stuff             The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 7 Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Liszt, ... Vox (Classical), 1994 A hard to find romantic selection ! The elegant style of Weber Piano Concertos reminds me too much to Hummel , Pixis , Thalberg and Moscheles . They are chiefly written in a gallant style , gracefully combined with delicacy , that was the immediate legacy left for the French Revolution , refinement without deepness , the tearful ...             Beethoven: The Piano Concertos Ludwig van Beethoven, Georg Solti, ... Decca, 1997 A perfect gem! + beethoven piano concerti + Wonderful set! This CD set is a digital re-mastering of the original "Stereophonic" London recordings from 1973. The sound is crisp and clear, and enhances the masterful technique of Vladimir Ashkenazy and Sir Georg Solti's well-paced leadership. You would never know you were listening to an ADD rather than a ...             Schumann: Piano Concerto / Sviatoslav Richter Robert Schumann, Stanislaw Wislocki, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1996 Keep coming back to this Schumann piano concerto + Tonic for the Human Spirit + One of Best Schumann-Only Discs Around + Classic recording that lives up to its name             Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Frederic Chopin, Carlo Maria Giulini, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1990 Excellent performances, preferable to Zimerman's new ones + Excellent but not flawless + See the other Zimerman recording of Chopin's concertos. + Almost best performance of 2nd concerto, but the 1st one ...             J. C. Bach: 6 Sinfonias, Op. 3; 6 Piano Concertos, Op. 13 Johann Christian Bach, Eduard Melkus, ... Philips, 1997 A Splendid Bargain - A Wonderful Composer + Fine Music, Well Played + Hang a star on this one! This is the third Philips Duo issue of works by Johann Christian Bach, Bach's youngest son, and a much underrated and underappreciated composer. His work has been called "transitional" between the Baroque and Classical styles -- but I vehemently disagree: listen to some of JC's father's works -- ...             Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos Sergey Rachmaninov, André Previn, ... Decca, 1997 Illustrious Dark + Ashkenazy - one of the best musicians of our time + Ashkenazy's fluidity: a very good fit with Rachmaninov + My Favorite Rachmaninov Interpreter + Superb set of Rachmaninov's complete Piano works             Mozart: The Piano Concertos Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Géza Anda, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Luminous... + Mozart In Battle Gear + Still The Best + My favorite Mozart Piano concerts             Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos 1-5 Camille Saint-Saens, André Previn, ... EMI Classics, 1999 Brilliant + Glittering and Seductive + Stellar + Scintillating             Liszt: The Two Piano Concertos; The Piano Sonata Franz Liszt, Kiril Kondrashin Philips, 1995 Consummate Mastery In The Liszt Concertos + Richter plays Liszt + On the Lizst piano sonata + To unbalance for rebalance!             Brahms: Piano Concertos/Variations on a Theme/Tragic Overture Johannes Brahms, Claudio Abbado, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1997 Very good performance of the 1st Concerto + There is no orchestra like WP Poliziani and Bohm show that you don't have to smooth out the very dramatic and, to this listener at least, fascinating moods swings of the music in order to maintain it's continuity and coherence. The other performances are good too, but in the Haydn Variations I prefer the Szell-Cleveland ...             Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Felix Mendelssohn, Neville Marriner, ... Sony, 1990 A Legendary Recording + A great Mendelssohn album + Very fine readings, but this music needs more help + A great CD + One of my favorite composers          products you might be interested in        toavi.com    web we recommend A hard to find romantic selection ! randomly chosen VHS: Safe (1995)