Iberia
Isaac Albéniz
3 recordings Top Choice: Alicia de la Rocha
Solo Piano Works
Discover the finest recordings of essential piano works, from Bach to the Romantics.
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Johann Sebastian Bach
9 recordings Top Choice: Glenn Gould
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I & II, BWV 846–893
Johann Sebastian Bach
9 recordings Top Choice: Andras Schiff
English Suites, BWV 806–811 & French Suites, BWV 812–817
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recording Top Choice: Glenn Gould
Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772–786 & Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonias), BWV 787–801
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recording Top Choice: Glenn Gould
Six Partitas, BWV 825–830 (Clavier-Übung I)
Johann Sebastian Bach
2 recordings Top Choice: Rosalind Turek
Italian Concerto, BWV 971; French Overture, BWV 831; Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue, BWV 903
Johann Sebastian Bach
2 recordings Top Choice: Andras Schiff
Organ Works (Selections)
Johann Sebastian Bach
7 recordings Top Choice: Helmut Walcha
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Johann Sebastian Bach
4 recordings Top Choice: Grigory Sokolov
Piano Sonatas (Early & Middle Selections)
Ludwig van Beethoven
9 recordings Top Choice: Emil Gilels
Piano Sonatas (Late Selections, Nos. 28-32)
Ludwig van Beethoven
6 recordings Top Choice: Maurizio Pollini
Piano Sonatas (Complete 32)
Ludwig van Beethoven
6 recordings Top Choice: Friedrich Gulda
33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
Ludwig van Beethoven
2 recordings Top Choice: Alfred Brendel
Late Piano Works (Op. 116-119) & Rhapsodies (Op. 79) - Selections
Johannes Brahms
5 recordings Top Choice: Radu Lupu
Handel Variations, Op. 24; Paganini Variations, Op. 35; Ballades, Op. 10
Johannes Brahms
4 recordings Top Choice: Julius Katchen
16 Waltzes, Op. 39
Johannes Brahms
3 recordings Top Choice: Idil Biret
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Johannes Brahms
2 recordings Top Choice: Clifford Curzon
4 Ballades
Frédéric Chopin
4 recordings Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein
Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25
Frédéric Chopin
3 recordings Top Choice: Maurizio Pollini
4 Impromptus
Frédéric Chopin
3 recordings Top Choice: Claudio Arrau
Mazurkas
Frédéric Chopin
4 recordings Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein
Nocturnes
Frédéric Chopin
7 recordings Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein
Polonaises
Frédéric Chopin
3 recordings Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein
24 Preludes, Op. 28
Frédéric Chopin
9 recordings Top Choice: Claudio Arrau
4 Scherzi
Frédéric Chopin
2 recordings Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 & No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Frédéric Chopin
6 recordings Top Choice: Arthur Rubinstein
Waltzes
Frédéric Chopin
2 recordings Top Choice: Dinu Lipatti
Préludes (Books 1 & 2), Images (Books 1 & 2), Children's Corner
Claude Debussy
3 recordings Top Choice: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Suite Bergamasque, Pour le piano, Estampes
Claude Debussy
1 recording Top Choice: Zoltán Kocsis
Études (Book 1 & 2)
Claude Debussy
1 recording Top Choice: Mitsuko Uchida
Complete Piano Works
Claude Debussy
2 recordings Top Choice: Walter Gieseking
Nocturnes
Gabriel Fauré
1 recording Top Choice: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin
Goyescas & Spanish Dances
Enrique Granados
1 recording Top Choice: Eduardo del Pueyo
Lyric Pieces (Selections)
Edvard Grieg
2 recordings Top Choice: Emil Gilels
Piano Sonata No. 2, 'Concord, Mass., 1840–60'
Charles Ives
1 recording Top Choice: Gilbert Kalish
Piano Works (On an Overgrown Path, Sonata 1.X.1905, In the Mists)
Leoš Janáček
1 recording Top Choice: Rudolf Firkušný
Piano Sonata in B minor
Franz Liszt
6 recordings Top Choice: Clifford Curzon
Short Piano Works (Selections)
Franz Liszt
1 recording Top Choice: Jorge Bolet
Hungarian Rhapsodies (Selections)
Franz Liszt
1 recording Top Choice: Georges Cziffra
12 Transcendental Études
Franz Liszt
1 recording Top Choice: Georges Cziffra
Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage)
Franz Liszt
1 recording Top Choice: Aldo Ciccolini
Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte)
Felix Mendelssohn
3 recordings Top Choice: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Sonatas (Selections: Nos. 8, 11, 15)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordings Top Choice: Murray Perahia
Piano Sonatas (Complete 18)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3 recordings Top Choice: Maria João Pires
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
3 recordings Top Choice: Mikhail Pletnev
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Sergei Prokofiev
2 recordings Top Choice: Ivo Pogorelich
Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83
Sergei Prokofiev
3 recordings Top Choice: Maurizio Pollini
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84
Sergei Prokofiev
1 recording Top Choice: Sviatoslav Richter
24 Preludes (Op. 3 No. 2, Op. 23, Op. 32)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
4 recordings Top Choice: Vladimir Ashkenazi
Gaspard de la nuit
Maurice Ravel
5 recordings Top Choice: Ivo Pogorelich
Piano Works (Selections, incl. Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes)
Erik Satie
1 recording Top Choice: Aldo Ciccolini
Keyboard Sonatas (Selections)
Domenico Scarlatti
2 recordings Top Choice: Igor Kipnis
Impromptus, D. 899 & D. 935
Franz Schubert
5 recordings Top Choice: Alfred Brendel
Moments Musicaux, D. 780
Franz Schubert
2 recordings Top Choice: Clifford Curzon
Wanderer Fantasy, D. 760
Franz Schubert
5 recordings Top Choice: Sviatoslav Richter
Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 (for piano four-hands)
Franz Schubert
2 recordings Top Choice: Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu
Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958
Franz Schubert
1 recording Top Choice: Alfred Brendel
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959
Franz Schubert
2 recordings Top Choice: Murray Perahia
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960
Franz Schubert
7 recordings Top Choice: Stephen Kovacevich
Carnaval, Op. 9
Robert Schumann
6 recordings Top Choice: Claudio Arrau
Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 & Études symphoniques, Op. 13
Robert Schumann
5 recordings Top Choice: Rudolf Firkušný
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Robert Schumann
5 recordings Top Choice: Martha Argerich
Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Robert Schumann
4 recordings Top Choice: Martha Argerich
Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15
Robert Schumann
5 recordings Top Choice: Claudio Arrau
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Robert Schumann
6 recordings Top Choice: Yuri Egorov
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82
Robert Schumann
2 recordings Top Choice: Claudio Arrau
Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Alexander Scriabin
1 recording Top Choice: Sviatoslav Richter
Vers la flamme (Toward the flame), Op. 72
Alexander Scriabin
1 recording Top Choice: Vladimir Sofronitsky
24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recording Top Choice: Tatiana Nikolaeva