HAPPY TRACKS:

Of course, for us living in Oxford, Barenboim will be always amongst other things lovely Jacqueline du Pré's husband, a pairing many thought similar to that between Robert and Clara Schumann.

Tip top idea, Tamas, do count me in, even if it's good clean fun I'm keen to be involved in this plot anyway. It's a sonorous (spinning?) side plate for thesis writing, and my dullard fingers at their keyboard will be duly chastened and chivvied along.

As far as online resources I've just stumbled across for us, in terms of the concertos, Aimard's One through Five, Schiff's Third, Fourth and Fifth, Novaes's Fourth, and Rubinstein's Fourth and Fifth all come available for free listening on Spotify. From Tamas's list below, Gould (No. 1 and No. 5), Kempff (No. 2 (II), No. 4 (III)), Ashkenazy (No. 5 (III)), Brendel No. 3) and Barenboim (Nos. 1 and 2) are on Youtube.

A bit afield, I did just run across Youtube clips of Ashkenazy on playing Beethoven, and András Schiff giving a lecture recital on the last three of the sonatas. And returning to Barenboim, his BBC Reith Lectures from 2006 (on the theme, 'In The Beginning Was Sound' and Harvard Charles Eliot Norton Lectures from 2008 ('Music Quickens Time' - the link is to an accompanying radio appearance) may also be listened to online. There's also a recent New York Times profile, making much both of his cultural breadth, and skill in 'forever making old works sound new'.

More of an internet bibliography from me anon, meine Freundin, once I've skipped off to a free dinner, mine if I can get to it.