The Piano Files on Patreon has posted a little challenge. Jorge Bolet plays 'In Autumn' in recordings from 1952 and 1987. "To celebrate the change of seasons to Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, two recordings by the great Cuban-born pianist Jorge Bolet playing Moszkowski's 'En Automne' Op.36 No.4." Which do you prefer?
My view of the arguments regarding earlier and later recordings is well rehearsed throughout this website, so I will only comment on the following detail, that the earlier reading "has less reverberation in the overall acoustic - something far too common with more modern recordings". I, on the other hand, prefer a more generous, "giving" acoustic in a piano recording, such as Decca offered Bolet. It amuses me to see people at a piano recital who are perched right in front of the piano. The piano is a mechanical instrument, so needs "air" around it - which is why I will always sit further back in the hall.
On-and-off in earlier years, I practised one of my favourite of the Chopin études, Op.10/5 in G flat major. Though I worked at it for years, it never sounded right until someone made a recording on a small cassette player in a hall. I then realised that with air around the notes, my playing sounded much more as I had hoped.