Reddit reviews Prokofiev: The Five Piano Concertos

If you have these recordings, and you compare them to Argerich, she's done much better than he did. Maybe it's just the particular recordings I was using, but there's just no comparison. Ashkenazy can't do fast, intense, or energetic remotely as well as Argerich can.

Prokofiev is godly. As much as I love the pussy Frenchies like Chopin and Debussy, I think they get too much attention over the testosterone badasses from Russia.

Prokofiev Tocatta? Try to watch without dropping your jaw to the floor. Beautiful insanity.

As per Prokofiev's piano concertos, I love Argerich's recordings, but I think Ashkenazy/Previn put out the definitive album. In fact, if I had to recommend one album to anyone looking for something just a tad outside the norm of Mozart/Beethoven/Chopin/Rach, it would be this. Best $12 I've ever spent.

Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto is his most popular, but his 2nd is much better in my opinion. He wrote the 2nd in memoriam of a friend who committed suicide. The first movement is eerie as fuck.