Wilhelm Backhaus’s Chopin Études, Opp 10 and 25 from 1928, were the first to be recorded as a complete set and remain justly famous, retaining even today an unassailable position among the finest.

Back in the early/mid-1950s Decca set out to record two complete Beethoven piano sonata cycles, at times running almost concurrently, with Friedrich Gulda representing the fiery younger generation ...

Bei Horowitz besteht freilich die Gefahr, daß das Stück in lauter schöne Stellen zerfällt. Dabei übertreibt er keineswegs das Rubato, sondern er spielt die langsame Begleitfigur mit jener eisernen ...