[jammer]

I also have that LP, given to me by my piano teacher as a high school graduation present (IIRC--I'm old and can't remember well). Is that the one with the usually recorded 3 (with Pathetique and Appassionata)? I think it's the Appassionata that left me cold. You're right--no accounting for taste. Who knows what endorphins will be released by which performer's interpretation?

And that's the wonderful thing about this stuff, it can be so fresh with a different artist, even if one has heard the same piece hundreds of times.

As far as no accounting for taste, I would tell you who is my favorite interpreter of two much less major pieces (the Chopin Aeolian Harp etude and the Liszt Un Sospiro), but then you'd have to shoot me. Let's leave it that you are correct!

[COBOL2Java]

Is that the one with the usually recorded 3 (with Pathetique and Appassionata)?

Wow, I can't believe I found it so quickly in my LP collection! It doesn't have No. 3, it has No. 2 (the "Moonlight") along with four Schubert Impromptus (Columbia M32342). Now I remember why I bought this one: I had to do an analysis of Schubert's Impromptu in E-Flat Major for my Musicology class. Funny how one acquires recordings! My gosh, that was 30 years ago - now I feel old!