10 different versions of Liszt/Schumann Widmung

[gradus]

I came across this whilst idling through YouTube after watching a video of Marta Argerich giving this as an encore, just as you would expect.
On the screen was the 10 pianists comparison and I thought other 'pianistas' might find it as interesting as I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoAjGgoh6jU

Got a favourite?

[Jonathan]

I recently heard a recording by Shin-Haea Kang on the Oehms label, it's gorgeously played.

[edashtav]

It's Backhaus and Bolet in their contrasted manners for me... but I have a bias, of the ten, I've only heard two playing live: An old B. And a younger one.

[silvestrione]

Ah perhaps you read the same piece about it as I did, in Pianist magazine. I haven't played the ten, but I did listen to Argerich and Lise de la Salle, both terrific, and very different.

I'll listen to some of the others, later.

[gurnemanz]

I found Nina Lelchuk very touching and also liked Jorge Bolet. I have two recordings - Leslie Howard on Hyperion is quite sprightly, and Sergio Fiorentino in his Berlin Recordings who plays his own transcription, more reflective. (It's on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbWbMhNmDBw)