1) Ravel Jeux d'eau, Cortot 1920(Undoubtedly one of the seven wonders of the modern world.)2) Debussy Jimbo's Lullaby, Cortot 1947 0:33("Cortot's tone had such an extraordinary quality that one could recognise it from among a hundred pianists" M. Tagliaferro)3) Debussy Des pas sur la neige, Gieseking 1938 1:17(Gieseking's transcendental touch allowed him impalpable pianissimos and dizzy diminuendos.)4) Debussy Pagodes, Gieseking 1956 1:56("He painted with fingers dipped in the hues of Degas, Renoir, Manet and Bonnard" A. Chasins)5) Grieg Puck, Gieseking 1956 2:49(those feeble B-flats!"Through continuous self hearing, the sense for tone beauty and for finest shadings will allow you to play with an irreproachable technique" Gieseking)6) Debussy Ondine, Erdmann 1928 3:077) Ravel Scarbo, Michelangeli live 1959 3:58(one can only wonder at how he could play such miraculously soft repeated notes!)Debussy Reflets8) Michelangeli 1942 4:479) Rosenthal 1929 5:3710) Debussy Images, Michelangeli live 1957 6:3111) Debussy Images, Michelangeli live 1957 7:36(two independent lines superimposed and made distinct thanks to subtle timbre nuances...)12) Debussy Images, Vines 1930 8:58(Debussy's reminiscences of Liszt's Chasse-Neige)13) Debussy Estampes, Vines 1930 9:37(how beautifully distant and yet so resonant those C sharps in the treble!)14) Chopin Op 15 No 2, Busoni 1922 10:1715) Liszt Legend No 2, Horowitz live 1947 11:23(stereoscopic left hand-scales!"All your waves and breakers have swept over me")16) Mussorgsky By the water, Horowitz 1947 12:22("to be able to produce many varieties of sound, that is what I call technique" Horowitz)17) Saint-Saens-Liszt-Horowitz Danse Macabre, Horowitz 1942 13:19(I wonder if Volodja hired John Cage to tune his piano)18) Bach-Busoni Choral Prelude, Horowitz 1934 14:16(unbelievable three dimensional differentiation of the 3 voices!)19) Rachmaninov Polka de W.R., Horowitz live 15:0220) Rachmaninov op 32 No 5, Horowitz live 1975 15:3221) Clementi op 25 No 5, Horowitz 1954 16:3222) Schumann op 13, Gilels live 1984 17:2223) Schumann-Liszt Fruhlingsnacht, Lhevinne 1935 18:1724) Schumann Toccata, Lhevinne 1935 19:03(almost an organ with 2 registers!)24) Wagner-Brassin, Hofmann 1923 19:29(pure magic! "A touch that ranged from icy cold to burning hot; unlimited shades of color that came from changes of tone quality or alterations of balance rather than from an increase or decrease of volume. He was the dramatic orchestrator of the piano" A. Chasins)25) Rubinstein Melody, Hofmann 1923 20:20("Rubinstein's tone was like an organ" Leschetizky)26) Tchaikovsky June, Godowsky 1926 21:23("Never forget what you heard tonight; never lose the memory of that sound. There's nothing like it in this world. It is tragic that the public has never heard Popsy as only he can play" J. Hofmann)Chopin op 5727) Paderewski 1922 22:26(that gorgeous F in bar 3, a golden sunbeam)28) Rosenthal 1930 23:06(those languid and "liquid" sixths at 23:47...)29) Liszt Liebestraum, Rosenthal 1929 24:03("the grand manner of playing is very a simply a grand manner" RosenthalHow could one disagree?)30) Chopin op 55 No 2, Friedman 1936 24:50Gluck-Sgambati 31) Levitzki 1923 25:38(the most moving Orpheus, what a tone!)32) Rachmaninov 1925 26:25Schubert-Liszt Standchen33) Rachmaninov 1942 27:0734) Horowitz 1986 28:11(What marvel of colors would have been the Rachmaninov's Dances played by Sergei and Volodja... How could RCA decide to turn it down??)35) Schubert-Liszt Ave Maria, Berman 1989 29:08(Lazar had in his fingers the secret of the most gorgeous tone)Bach-Hess,36) Lipatti 1947 30:1437) Hess 1957 31:05(being a pupil of Matthay surely helps your touch!)38) Liszt Annees de pelerinage, Arrau 1928 32:03Beethoven op 11039) Schnabel 1932 33:05(Beethoven fantasizing on the bebung."The second note is repeated in an audible manner, very tenuto and the other smartly detached and less marked" Czerny)40) Pollini 1976 33:5241) Schoenberg op 25, Pollini 1974 34:2642) Scriabin Vers la flamme, Sofronitsky 1959 35:0143) Ravel Miroirs, Richter live 1965 36:3744) Ravel Miroirs, Richter live 1965 37:2245) Debussy Preludes, Richter live 1993 38:2746) Schumann Waldszenen, Richter 1956 39:3247) Saint-Saens Conc. No 5, Richter 1950 40:07(piano or xylophone?)48) Prokofiev Conc. No 5, Richter 1950 40:2749) Beethoven-Liszt Symp. No 5, Gould 1967 41:0550) Wagner-Gould, Gould 1974 42:1051) Ravel-Gould, Gould 1974 42:50