Title: Get Kissin's.
Product review: Anyone who can perform this piece at such a high level in front of thousands is impressive to me, but on a relative scale, it's not even close to Evgeny Kissin's performance. Much of the tempi are simply way too fast for any of Rachmaninoff's articulate and detail-oriented composing to be appreciated. Argerich's level of intensity is great and the high speed can be exciting, but from someone who generally performs things too fast, myself, this is too fast. Kissin's, on the other hand, isn't too slow--there are many passages that I could only dream of being able to perform as fast as him. His tempi are slow enough so that the listener can take in all of the nuances, colors, rhythms, and anything else that might be overlooked with the faster Argerich tempo. If you appreciate controlled performing (without sacrificing excitement), Argerich simply doesn't match up to Kissin.
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