Solo Piano Works

Iberia

Isaac Albéniz

Top Choice: Alicia de Larrocha

The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Grigory Sokolov

English Suites, BWV 806–811 & French Suites, BWV 812–817

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Glenn Gould

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Glenn Gould

Italian Concerto, BWV 971; French Overture, BWV 831; Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue, BWV 903

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Andras Schiff

Organ Works (Complete Sets & Selections)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Helmut Walcha

Six Partitas, BWV 825–830 (Clavier-Übung I)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Rosalyn Tureck

Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772–786 & Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonias), BWV 787–801

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Glenn Gould

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I & II, BWV 846–893

Johann Sebastian Bach

Top Choice: Andras Schiff

33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120

Ludwig van Beethoven

Top Choice: Alfred Brendel

Piano Sonatas (Complete 32)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Top Choice: Friedrich Gulda

Piano Sonatas (Early & Middle Selections)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Top Choice: Emil Gilels

Piano Sonatas (Late Selections, Nos. 28-32)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Top Choice: Maurizio Pollini

Handel Variations, Op. 24; Paganini Variations, Op. 35; Ballades, Op. 10

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Julius Katchen

Piano Pieces (Opp. 76, 116–119) & Rhapsodies (Op. 79) — Selections

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Radu Lupu

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Clifford Curzon

Waltzes, Op. 39 & Hungarian Dances — Selections

Johannes Brahms

Top Choice: Idil Biret

4 Ballades

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein

Barcarolle, Berceuse & Fantasy in F minor

Frédéric Chopin

Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Maurizio Pollini

4 Impromptus

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Claudio Arrau

Mazurkas

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein

Nocturnes

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 & No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein

Piano Works — Solomon Recital

Frédéric Chopin

Polonaises

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein

24 Preludes, Op. 28

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Claudio Arrau

4 Scherzi

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein

Waltzes

Frédéric Chopin

Top Choice: Dinu Lipatti

Piano Works (Complete Survey & Earlier Selections)

Claude Debussy

Top Choice: Walter Gieseking

Études (Book 1 & 2)

Claude Debussy

Top Choice: Mitsuko Uchida

Préludes (Books 1 & 2), Images (Books 1 & 2), Children's Corner

Claude Debussy

Top Choice: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Suite Bergamasque, Pour le piano, Estampes

Claude Debussy

Top Choice: Zoltán Kocsis

Nocturnes

Gabriel Fauré

Top Choice: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin

Goyescas & Spanish Dances

Enrique Granados

Top Choice: Eduardo del Pueyo

Lyric Pieces (Selections)

Edvard Grieg

Top Choice: Emil Gilels

Piano Sonata No. 2, 'Concord, Mass., 1840–60'

Charles Ives

Top Choice: Gilbert Kalish

Piano Works (On an Overgrown Path, Sonata 1.X.1905, In the Mists)

Leoš Janáček

Top Choice: Rudolf Firkušný

Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage)

Franz Liszt

Top Choice: Aldo Ciccolini

Hungarian Rhapsodies (Selections)

Franz Liszt

Top Choice: Georges Cziffra

Piano Sonata in B minor

Franz Liszt

Top Choice: Clifford Curzon

Short Piano Works (Selections)

Franz Liszt

Top Choice: Jorge Bolet

12 Transcendental Études

Franz Liszt

Top Choice: Georges Cziffra

Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte)

Felix Mendelssohn

Top Choice: Daniel Barenboim

Piano Sonatas (Complete Sets & Selections)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Top Choice: Maria João Pires

Piano Sonatas (Selections: Nos. 8, 11, 15)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Top Choice: Murray Perahia

Pictures at an Exhibition

Modest Mussorgsky

Top Choice: Mikhail Pletnev

Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82

Sergei Prokofiev

Top Choice: Ivo Pogorelich

Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83

Sergei Prokofiev

Top Choice: Maurizio Pollini

Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84

Sergei Prokofiev

Top Choice: Sviatoslav Richter

Toccata

Sergei Prokofiev

24 Preludes (Op. 3 No. 2, Op. 23, Op. 32)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Top Choice: Vladimir Ashkenazy

Gaspard de la nuit

Maurice Ravel

Top Choice: Ivo Pogorelich

Jeux d’eau

Maurice Ravel

Miroirs

Maurice Ravel

Piano Works (Selections, incl. Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes)

Erik Satie

Top Choice: Aldo Ciccolini

Keyboard Sonatas (Selections)

Domenico Scarlatti

Top Choice: Igor Kipnis

Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 (for piano four-hands)

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu

Impromptus, D. 899 & D. 935

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Alfred Brendel

Moments Musicaux, D. 780

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Clifford Curzon

Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Alfred Brendel

Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Murray Perahia

Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Stephen Kovacevich

Wanderer Fantasy, D. 760

Franz Schubert

Top Choice: Sviatoslav Richter

Carnaval, Op. 9

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Claudio Arrau

Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 & Études symphoniques, Op. 13

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Rudolf Firkušný

Fantasie in C major, Op. 17

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Martha Argerich

Fantasiestücke, Op. 12

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Martha Argerich

Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Claudio Arrau

Kreisleriana, Op. 16

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Yuri Egorov

Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82

Robert Schumann

Top Choice: Claudio Arrau

Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

Alexander Scriabin

Top Choice: Sviatoslav Richter

Vers la flamme (Toward the flame), Op. 72

Alexander Scriabin

Top Choice: Vladimir Sofronitsky

24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87

Dmitri Shostakovich

Top Choice: Tatiana Nikolaeva