Your all time top 10

[Eratosthenes]

Big Blood - Space Gallery Jan. 27, 2007 / Sahara Club Jan. 28, 2007
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus
Scatter - Surprising Sing Stupendous Love
Hild Sofie Tafjord - Kama
Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita & Taku Unami - Quartet
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite

[bedouin]

Barraqué - Piano Sonata (Herbert Henck)
Beethoven - Late Piano Sonatas (Maurizio Pollini)
Debussy - Preludes for Piano (Paul Jacobs)
Grieg - Lyric Pieces (Emil Gilels)
Koechlin - Les Heures Persanes (Kathryn Stott)
Mompou - Música Callada (Herbert Henck)
Ravel - Piano Works (Pascal Rogé)
Satie - Piano Works (Robert de Leeuw)
Schoenberg - Piano Music (Paul Jacobs)
Schubert - Impromptus (Radu Lupu)

[Dan Warburton]

Have you heard Claude Helffer's recording of the Barraqué? I've always preferred his more romantic take - the Henck is damn good too. Nice collection of pianists there!

[Wombatz]

And have you heard Mompou play his own stuff? It's barely up to the usual pianistic standards (he was 81 when he recorded that), but the mood is perfect, while Henck's much too heavy for my taste.

Also, I'd take Gulda's Ravel over Rogé anytime. (I don't much like Rogé in any context, though. His Fauré is clueless, he finds nothing to hold onto.)

I'm happy to see Koechlin there, he's written some wonderful pieces, also for orchestra, though he's often spotty. I don't know your selection, will be sure to check it out.

[bedouin]

thanks for the counter suggestions folks. maybe we should have a thread on the subject.

[Dan Warburton]

On pianists? Or Ravel? I'm up for both! (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli playing the G major concerto for me http://www.discogs.com/Arturo-Benedetti ... se/2041471.. and Robert Casadesus on the Left Hand Concerto.. http://www.discogs.com/Maurice-Ravel-Ph ... se/2802920 -- though I'm not sure if the vinyl I have back in England isn't with Stokowski..)

[used]

Organum & TNB - Wrack
Borbetomagus - Snuff Jazz
Sun Ra - Live at Montreux
Hum Of The Druid - s/t on Abisko
Thomas Koner - Permafrost
Merzbow/PGR/Tiechens - Grav
Paul Dolden - L' Ivresse de la Vitesse
Holeist - untitled split with Illusion Of Safety
Angels Of Light - New Mother
Kohei Gomi / Masahiko Ohno / Toshiji Mikawa / Akifumi Nakajima - The Four Shrines
Keiji Haino - Nijiumu (not to be confused with the Haino ambient project of the same name)

[William Hutson]

Hum Of The Druid - s/t on Abisko