My Top 10 Recordings - no. 9: Brendel/Schubert
Alfred Brendel would have to be very high on the list of pianists who had a big influence on me.
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 8: Archerich/Bach
During my undergraduate years in Freiburg, Germany, I had a student subscription to a chamber music series featuring Martha Argerich relatively regularly.
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 7: Sokolov/Prokofiev 7
Grigory Sokolov’s 1969 two CD set features a selection of the monuments of piano repertoire including Stravinsky’s Petruchka, Schumann’s Carnaval and Prokofiev’s 8th and 7th sonatas.
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 6: Fischer/WTC
A gold standard recording of a set of pieces that are in themselves gold standards of music.
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 5: Perahia/Songs Without Words
I love well programmed and thematic recordings, which is why I enjoy this 1999 CD of Murray Perahia so very much.
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 4: Volodos/Carnegie Hall
Larger than life: Arcadi Volodos's Carnegie Hall debut recital in 1998. If you feel starved for live music, this is the album to hear.
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 3: Fischer-Dieskau/Winterreise
If someone were to asked me, what recordings I would take to a lonely island, I would put on top of my list Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise”
My Top 10 Recordings - no. 2: Anda/Bartok
Growing up in Germany and moving through the music conservatory system meant playing lots of Bartòk
