Classical piano solo—Your one favorite performance and recording

Classical music is loosely defined as being composed from about 1750 to 1820.

This includes that from the minds of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.

Rach was pretty recent, in the scheme of things.

JS Bach could be correctly categorized as baroque.  What was the question?

@mahler123

An impossible choice, but I would nominate Brendel’s Phillips recording of Schubert’s last 3 sonatas

Yes, excellent. Schubert was late Classical, unlike Liszt who clearly was not and someone who must be clueless about all matters musical sparks up to recommend Liszt as Classical, rather than Romantic.

That post by @mikelavigne must be bookmarked under the new favourites folder titled Clueless.

@mikelavigne 

Thankyou for clarifying that you are not an expert on classical music despite that it is mostly what you listen to.

Liszt was not of the Classical school. He was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic period.

Just the facts.  No priors.

Now, if the question was what is the favourite piano solo and recording of a composer from the Romantic school, I'd listen, rather than question.

@mikelavigne I guess what you are saying is that you are fine for audiophiles to be general, when in fact I think its imperative to be accurate and precise in matters of import.

I do not agree with the Oxford dictionary definition in this matter, but I do appreciate that you know where I am coming from.

Should the question have been in a general sense, then many movie scores could be considered classical music.  And perhaps cartoons like Looney Tunes (yes, listen, I am sometimes fascinated at the detail).

@mikelavigne 

i will ask my local friend, Joel-Francois Durand, professor of music composition and acting director the School of Music at the University of Washington, classical (20th Century period😁) composer, and builder of my tonearms, whether he disagrees with the Oxford dictionary definition of Classical music.

Och, you don't have to do that.  It'd be a bit like asking Robert Plant if Led Zeppelin was a heavy metal band.

There was a thread here a year or so ago and LZ featured as the best HM band of all time.  I took issue.  Oh, and Liszt is Classic.

@edcyn 

And, oh yeah -- Chuck Berry invents Rock & Roll.

No, Chuck Berry received a call from his cousin (Marvin?) who was listening to a guitar experience by Marty McFly.

This is well portrayed in the movie Back to the Future.  Get it right.