About the Hammerklavier Sonata Don Satz writes:

>my favorite is Pollini on DG: power, poetry, and a recorded sound which
>perfectly Pollini's interpretation.

Hard to argue with that choice.  But my favorite is Peter Serkin on a piano
of that era which groaned and grunted but somehow was marvelously touching,
and set the power and poetry into a profoundly human setting.

Bernard Chasan