Philip Peters wrote: >Some people are very fond of Uchida's set on Philips but I find that >too *romantic* really. *Romantic* is about the last adjective I'd use to describe Uchida's Mozart. I just don't hear that at all; I hear - fast, on the edge, elegant, etc. Haebler, in her Denon series, might be somewhat in the romantic mode, de Larrocha as well. >Most of the time those same *other people* think Maria Joao Pires is the >worst pianist in the world but I happen to like her first set >on Denon very much. I like Pires also. I don't have her entire Denon set, but the two discs I own have received much playing time. She does the best "turkish march" I've heard. I remember that Virgin issued a set of the piano sonatas that I bought one at a time when they first came out. I liked those recordings primarily because I thought the pianist did a very good job with the fast movements. I think the pianist was Pommier, the same guy who recorded a complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas for Erato. Don Satz [log in to unmask]