Arthur Rubinstein’s Recordings

A “statistical overview” over the recordings on the 142 CDs included with the box set “Arthur Rubinstein, The Complete Album Collection”

Yulianna Avdeeva — Piano Recital, Baden/CH, 2014-03-08

(…) Yulianna’s playing was excellent! She is very virtuosic and very expressive! Where the tempo permits, she is nearly as clear in the articulation as Steven Hough — but she is way more expressive; unlike Volodos, she follows the score; she is not overpowering the music like Volodos, but has more agility than her Russian colleague (and avoids his unnecessary additions, I should say), she is often almost as fast and eruptive as Cziffra in the virtuosic octave passages, but in general keeps her articulation under control…

D. Scarlatti, F. Schubert (Diary 2012-08-31)

Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas — recordings with Pieter-Jan Belder and Andreas Staier; Schubert: Masses in A♭ (D.678) and E♭ (D.950) — Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Beethoven, Schubert (Diary 2012-07-28)

Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles, op.126 — Ashkenazy (1984), Brautigam (2010), Brendel (1964 & 1985), Gould (1974), Schnabel (1937); Beethoven: 24 Variations on the Arietta “Venni Amore” by Vincenzo Righini, WoO 65 — Pletnev (1997), Brautigam (2012); Schubert: Symphony in B minor, D.759 (“Unfinished”) / Symphony in C major, D.944 (“Great C major”) — Furtwängler (1952), Harnoncourt (1992), Dausgaard (2006)