BaL 3.05.14/5.11.22- Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor

[cloughie]

Fantastic list alps but like the man watching the decorator I hesitate to say you've missed a bit and indeed they may be unavailable:
Berman BPO Karajan
Cherkassky BPO Ludwig
Ciccolini PCO Cluytens
Devoyon PO Dutoit
Dichter SWFSO Latham-Koenig
Gilels NYPO Mehta
Gutierrez LSO Previn
Istomin PhO Ormandy
Joselson PhO Ormandy
Katchen LSO Gamba
O'Hara RPO Judd
Pennario LAPO Leinsdorf
Schiff A CSO Solti
Sevidov RussPO Friedmann
Sgouros LPO Weller
Watts NYPO Bernstein

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This always happens. However, I think you'll find the Cherkassky/Ludwig one is already on the list.
As for the Ciccolini, this may be the first one I ever had on LP, but I'm uncertain of the orchestra and conductor.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Talking of HIPP versions, there isn't yet really a piano big and grand enough to do this work justice.

[Don Petter]

As for the Ciccolini, this may be the first one I ever had on LP, but I'm uncertain of the orchestra and conductor.

Probably the Cluytens, as above? There was another with the ONRF and Silvestri which was in the 'Rarissimes de Aldo Ciccolini' 2CD set, but, as the title suggests, this was less well known.

[visualnickmos]

Richter, surely?

You know that; I know that!!!

But................ in reality, it's a very open field. Choose your favourite.

[Black Swan]

I have multiple Argerich recordings and for me that is enough. I may listen to get a perspective.

[Barbirollians]

Favourites

Argerich - Abbado, just shades Kondrashin and Dutoit

Horowitz with Barbirolli

Ogdon /Barbirolli

Solomon both with Dobrowen and incandescent in Kansas

Gilels whenever and with whoever

[cloughie]

This always happens. However, I think you'll find the Cherkassky/Ludwig one is already on the list.
As for the Ciccolini, this may be the first one I ever had on LP, but I'm uncertain of the orchestra and conductor.

Yes your brush had already visited!

[Bryn]

I have a real soft spot for:

http://pristineclassics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/sergio-fiorentino-hamburg-pro-musica.html

This is mainly due to having sampled the opening to use for the performance by John Tilbury of Hugh Shrapnel's Houdini Rite at the Purcell Room, back in the early '70s. That Tilbury/Scratch Orchestra performance was clearly the origin of:

[CallMePaul]

King Olaf would have been easier.

So would Tchaik 2 - for my money a far greater work than the first, but most people (self included) cannot whistle or hum a single bar! I still have the old EMI LP by Sylvia Kirsenbaum which alerted many people to its greatness. Until then it had usually been heard in a heavily mutilated edition for which Siloti has to be thanked(?).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes your brush had already visited!

Er, no. Whenever a post is edited, a note appears at the end in italics.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

So would Tchaik 2 - for my money a far greater work than the first, but most people (self included) cannot whistle or hum a single bar! I still have the old EMI LP by Sylvia Kirsenbaum which alerted many people to its greatness. Until then it had usually been heard in a heavily mutilated edition for which Siloti has to be thanked(?).

I too prefer the 2nd concerto.

[Barbirollians]

I too prefer the 2nd concerto.

I don't . Charming work as it is it does go on too long albeit it did not deserve Siloti's butchery.

[silvestrione]

Talking of HIPP versions, there isn't yet really a piano big and grand enough to do this work justice.

[Lento]

"a closer analysis shows that the themes of the three movements are subtly linked" (Wikipedia, quoting Francis Maes)

Well, that's all right, then.