Scott Morrison wrote:

>Btw, I have been bowled over by the recording by the young Chinese
>pianist, Yundi Li, of the b minor sonata. He rose to the top echelon of
>b minors, in my opinion, or very nearly so, and that's a pretty crowded
>field with every Liszt player of any note recording it for over fifty
>years now.  The (not very) short list of wonderful recordings includes,
>in alphabetical order, Argerich, Arrau, Bolet, Brendel, Fleisher, Kempff,
>Nojima, Pollini, Richter, Serkin, probably among others.  Yundi Li joins
>them.

I shall definately investigate Mr Li's recording.  As regards your list
of recordings of the b minor sonata, one that has always satisfied was
made by the very young Andre Watts more than 30 years ago.  I haven't
seen it on CD but I remember it as being energetic and 'sweeping'.

Dave Harman