Realistic Recordings of Piano

[Euler]

Do you have an album or album track on which the sound of the piano seems particularly realistic? We all have our own preferences, of course, say for the harder sound from next to the piano or the more reverberant sound from the 15th row of a lovely recording hall, but what recordings sound most like a real piano to you?

I'll start:

Mozart: Piano Quartets, Beaux Arts Trio
Horowitz at Home, tracks: the Mozart sonata
Horowitz at the Met, tracks: Scarlatti sonatas

Bruce

[Don Jr]

Herbie Hancock: The Piano, tracks: My Funny Valentine & Blue Otani

[delgesu]

ivo pogorelich plays moussorgsky: pictures at an exhibition. incredible CD.

best,
delgesu

[keithwwk]

Many of them, these few night and now I am enjoying:
- Argerich/Abbado/Mahler chamber orchestra beethoven piano concerto 3&2
- Pires/Abbado/Chamber orchestra of Europe Mozart piano concerto 21&26
- Argerich/Dutoit/Montreal Chopin piano concert 1&2

etc..

[Gan CK]

In addition to what Keith has mentioned above, i would like to add this one....Liszt piano concerto No 1...very compelling performance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxzwEPB4Gd0

[Paul G Smith]

Add this too:
Debussy Preludes & l'Isle Joyeuse by Maurizio Pollini on DGG 458 187-2.
A well made very natural piano recording, imho.

[keithwwk]

Add one more album i am listening now:
- the art of Alfred brendel vol.1 virtouso pieces in Vanguard label featuring chopin polonaise and liszt Hungarian rhapsodies.