Rubinstein: Prokofiev — Tchaikovsky: Seasons (Diary 2014-05-01)
Rubinstein’s Recording Repertoire: Piano Music by Sergei Prokofiev — “The Love for Three Oranges” op.33, Visions fugitives op.22;
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, op.37a — Vladimir Ashkenazy
All just my personal opinion
Rubinstein’s Recording Repertoire: Piano Music by Sergei Prokofiev — “The Love for Three Oranges” op.33, Visions fugitives op.22;
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, op.37a — Vladimir Ashkenazy
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43 — Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra / Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
Godowsky (1870 – 1938), The Complete Studies on Chopin’s Etudes — Carlo Grante (2000) / Marc-André Hamelin (1999)
Back in the “vinyl days”, comparing various interpretations was cumbersome, even if one had access to multiple turntables (…): if you didn’t want to listen to entire interpretations, one after each other (making it hard to remember all details from interpretations just heard), you were bound to have multiple LPs ready in their sleeves, place them on a turntable, position the needle…