All just my personal opinion
Media review — “Mysteries” with Sabine Weyer, piano: Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881 – 1950): Sonata No.2 in F♯ minor op.13, No.3 in C minor op.19; Whimsies (Prichudi) op.25; Nicolas Bacri (*1961): Sonata No.2 op.105, No.3 op.122 “Sonata impetuosa”; Fantaisie, op.134. SACD/DSD received for reviewing, ★★★★.
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Richard Strauss, Violin Sonata in E♭ major, op.18 in three interpretations: Haifetz / Sándor (1934); Spivakov / Bezrodnyi (2001); Frang/Lifits (2010) — and memories only (sadly) of an LP recording with Ulf Hoelscher and Michel Béroff (1978)
Rubinstein’s Recording Repertoire: Igor Stravinsky, “Trois Movements de Pétrouchka” — Rubinstein, Pollini, with a side-view on Weissenberg, Béroff, Yuja Wang;
Scriabin: Nocturne in D♭ major for the left hand;
Mompou: “Cançons i Danses”;
Anton Rubinstein: Valse-Caprice, Barcarolles No.3 & 4;
Gershwin: Prelude No.2
Schumann: Novelletten, op.21 — Richter; Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata Nr.1 in D, op.12 — Mørk/Thibaudet; Rachmaninoff: Vocalise from the 14 Songs, op.34 — Isserlis/Hough; Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, op.19 — Mørk/Thibaudet, Isserlis/Hough; Franck: Violin or Cello Sonata in A — Spivakov/Bezrodnyi, Perlman/Argerich, Isserlis/Hough
(…) in the mid-90’s I could not resist following a colleague’s recommendation to visit Tower Records in Mountain View (a shop that has since gone out of business) when I was on a business trip to the Silicon Valley, and so I started purchasing CDs. Of course, unlike when I started collecting LPs, I now had a better idea what to look for…