What is your favorite album/recording?

Henryk Szeryng recording of Brahms Concerto with Pierre Monteux conducting.  It is beyond sublime in every aspect.  It seems impossible a human being could produce this performance which achieves perfection throughout.

Recently it's been Yunchan Lim's transcendental etudes since they're so technically challenging and the clarity and the notes and everything I can think of.

Murray Perahia Plays All Bach Concertos. Exquisite music and playing.

Arcadi Volodos plays Mompu. Incredible beautiful atmosphere and sound.

This is an easy one for me to answer for a change.  Constance Keene's spectacular rendering of the Rachmaninoff Preludes.

After that, there are about 1,000 tied for second.  Let me mention a couple of current favorites:

'Classical':  Ragna Schirmer's recording of the Handel Keyboard Suites.  All Tonebase fans of Handel should check this out!  Even my non musical friends stop what they are doing and ask:  "what is that music?"

Jazz:  George Shearing and Stephane Grapelli, The Reunion, circa 1985. Two jazz masters with impeccable virtuoso techniques, in a relaxed, spirited, swinging and very beautiful session. 

I stopped piano lessons after one miserable year.  Hearing the Horowitz return to Carnegie Hall changed my life. I still take lessons 63 years later.