20. I don't always know when a recording is ""the best"" or when I just happened to imprint on it at an early age, but this old rendition of Felix Mendelssohn's D minor trio is the only one I ever feel like listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfvI...

Mendelssohn - Suk Trio (1967) Piano Trio No. 1 In D Minor, Op. 49

YouTube video by On The Top of Damavand for ever

19. Esther Budiardjo makes such a perfect case for this music—straight tempo, no Romantic excess, just eloquence. The whole suite is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNH...

Part IV. 10. The Gardens of Guitenzorg , Godowsky: Jave Suite, Esther Budiardjo, Piano

YouTube video by Pro Piano Records Official Channel

Were you really!! I can only imagine. I've watched the video many times.

One of my favorites—we're about to spend a day on this song in one of my classes and I was very grateful to find she'd recorded it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JB3...

C. Schumann: Six Lieder, Op. 13: 3. Liebeszauber

YouTube video by Barbara Bonney - Topic

So great, and I also love her in that Rosenkavalier from 1994 with Kleiber/Bonney/von Otter

18. I told you I have exceptionally basic taste but I've been listening to this recording for 25 years and have no intention of stopping www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR1u...

Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder: 3. Die Nachtigall

YouTube video by Barbara Bonney - Topic

17. Best quartet (Ébène)—best quintet (Schubert)—doesn't get any better www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEAx...

String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956: I. Allegro ma non troppo

YouTube video by Quatuor Ébène - Topic

16. Pogorelich—the "Ondine" is weird, the "Scarbo" is terrific www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACE...

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 - III. Scarbo

YouTube video by Ivo Pogorelich - Topic

15. Amazing that this is a live, filmed performance with beautiful video and audio, instead of an edited studio recording—page turner and all! (And "Le baiser" is at the right tempo, which no one else ever does) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXui...

Olivier Messiaen: The whole "Vingts Regards sur l`Enfant -Jesus". Kristoffer Hyldig, piano

YouTube video by OUR Recordings

14. As my students learn freshly every single year, if you don't like this extremely cheesy song then we can't be friends www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswE...

Grieg: Sechs Lieder, Op. 48 - Ein Traum, Op. 48/6

YouTube video by Anne Sofie von Otter - Topic