New Piano Albums

Rafal Blechacz:2025-11-12

Chopin – Mazurkas

Exactly 20 years after winning the prestigious International Chopin Competition, Rafal Blechacz releases a new album on which he revives some of the works belonging to the competition’s key repertoire. His brand-new interpretation of the Mazurkas opp. 6, 17, 24, 41, 50, 56 & 63 is the starting point of an overarching project to record the complete mazurkas on DG.
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Rebeca Omordia:2025-11-09

John Ireland – Piano Works

This is an exploration of John Ireland’s distinctly English yet individualistic sound world, deeply connected to landscapes and literature. It features piano music composed over almost forty years, including the early Decorations, the substantial Piano Sonata in E minor (1920), the large-scale Sarnia: An Island Sequence, and Columbine (1951), the last piano piece he wrote.
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Martin Helmchen:2025-11-06

Schubert – Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Martin Helmchen was in his late teens when he approached a Schubert piano sonata for the first time: the friendly and melodious Sonata in A major D. 664. “I got into Schubert’s music relatively late — but was immediately completely blown away… I thought it would be nice to have the sonata that revealed Schubert to me on the first set of my complete recording."
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Lang Lang:2025-11-02

Piano Book 2

"Ever since Piano Book was released, I’ve been touched by the messages I’ve received from students, teachers, amateur pianists, and piano lovers around the world… With Piano Book 2, I want to present more music that speaks to everyone who loves the piano – whether you’re just beginning, returning after many years, or simply playing for the joy of it."
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Florian Krumpöck:2025-10-29

Schumann – Between Eusebius and Florestan

The son of a cellist and an art historian, Florian Krumpöck counted Rudolf Buchbinder, Gerhard Oppitz, and Elisabeth Leonskaja amongst his teachers at an early age. Eventually, he began to work increasingly on conducting, upon the advice of another mentor, Daniel Barenboim. Nevertheless, he still appears regularly as a pianist in major concert halls.
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Llyr Williams:2025-10-25

Schumann – Piano Works, Vol. 2

Llyr Williams' long collaboration with Signum Records has previously resulted in extensive explorations of the piano music of Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Liszt. This is the second volume of Schumann, featuring Piano Sonatas 1 and 2, Kreisleriana, and the Symphonic Etudes.
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Daniil Trifonov:2025-10-21

Tchaikovsky

This album features Tchaikovsky's bravura, four-movement Sonata op. 80, the Schumann-style Album for the Young, the rarely played 6 Morceaux in the form of Theme and Variations, and Mikhail Pletnev's arrangement of The Sleeping Beauty. According to Trifonov, these works present "a thoughtful, caring side of Tchaikovsky’s personality. We can imagine him sitting by a warm fire, lost in reminiscence." 
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Sophia Liu:2025-10-18

Chopin & Liszt

Born in Shanghai in 2008, the young Canadian pianist Sophia Liu is a student of Dang Thai Son, who won the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 1980. "I am ecstatic to be able to dedicate this album to two of the greatest virtuosos and visionaries of the Romantic era … what speaks to me above all is their almost indescribable power of transporting us to an otherworldly reality".
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Shorena Tsintsabadze:2025-10-14

Baroque Beyond

Shorena Tsintsabadze's early releases had a clear emphasis on music from the Romantic era. Then, in 2024, she released an album with with only Georgian music from the 19th and 20th centuries. Her new album represents another shift of focus: here, a selection of baroque pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin, Rameau and others lead up to Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Corelli.
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Eric Zuber & Boris Slutsky:2025-10-10

Rachmaninoff for Two – Suites & Symphonic Dances

These two pianists have a longstanding relationship: Zuber became Slutsky's student at age 11 and studied with him for about 20 years. “Few things are more gratifying for a teacher than watching a young person grow and develop… Even more rewarding is seeing that student become a master of his craft, a dear friend and colleague, and someone who shares the same musical values."
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Rodolphe Menguy:2025-10-07

A Fairy Tale – A travers le miroir

Stories and tales have always held great importance for Rodolphe Menguy. "This disk explores all this, my joys, my fears, my sorrows, my dreams, my games. It is, I hope, the image of an escape, a journey, which I am inviting you to take, letting your spirit and your own feelings wander at will along the path offered by these pieces from a dreamy repertoire."
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Ekaterina Litvintseva:2025-10-03

Iconic Ballet Music for Piano – Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev

As a small child, Ekaterina Litvintseva loved going to the ballet – she was captivated by the bright decorations and costumes, the graceful movements of the dancers, and the emotions expressed through dance. "The idea of recording an album with ballet music arranged for piano came to me completely spontaneously, and I immediately threw myself into this new repertoire with great enthusiasm."
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Andrew Yiangou:2025-10-01

Alkan – Le Petit Concert

Andrew Yiangou’s Le Petit Concert is a view into the musical world of the enigmatic 19th-century composer Charles-Valentin Alkan. The centre piece in the programme is the misleadingly titled 'Sonatina' in A minor, Op.61, actually a large-scale sonata of huge technical challenges, described by Sorabji as ‘vehement, droll, gargoyle-like, childlike and naïve in turn – almost as though Berlioz had written a Beethoven sonata’.
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Luis Fernando Pérez:2025-09-27

Encores

As a boy, Luis Fernando Pérez shared a yearning with his father for familiarity with the piano repertoire. They listened together to great pianists, developing a taste for the bonuses, the encores, from the artist’s personal, intimate universe. Now he presents a choice collection of short works, compiled with so much love over many years. Aiming for an authentic and spontaneous recording, the pieces were played through only once.
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Yunchan Lim:2025-09-24

Tchaikovsky – The Seasons

Yunchan Lim became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 at the age of 18, and experienced a meteoric rise to worldwide fame. On his new album, he presents one of Tchaikovsky's most intimate piano works, The Seasons, recorded live. Lim views the twelve pieces not just in the classical series of months, but as a story describing the last year of a person's life.
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Ingrid Fliter:2025-09-21

Chopin – Mazurkas, Vol. 1

A previous silver medalist at the International Chopin Competition, Ingrid Fliter has recorded the composer's Concertos, Nocturnes, and preludes for the Linn Label, and several all-Chopin albums for EMI. She is also the only woman to have received the Gilmore Artist Award. The first volume of Mazurkas features both early and late examples, including some published posthumously.
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Arielle Beck:2025-09-18

Des lunes et des feux

Moons and Flames is Arielle Beck's first album, recorded at the age of 15. Already in 2018, she received special recognition for her precocious talent as a recipient of the First Grand Prize at the International Young Chopin Competition in Switzerland, chaired by Martha Argerich. Alongside Schumann's Humoresque and Brahms' Op. 76, she performs her own set of Variations on a theme by Schumann.
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Daan Vandewalle:2025-09-14

Rzewski – Nano Sonatas

Composed between 2006 and 2010, Frederic Rzewski’s Nanosonatas are a cycle of 56 brief piano pieces, structured into eight books. Echoes of Scarlatti, Schumann, Shostakovich, folk tunes, protest songs, and even boxing gestures all contribute to a vivid and unpredictable sound world, resisting closure while reflecting on time, memory, and fragility.
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Javier Perianes:2025-09-07

Scarlatti

Javier Perianes has developed a diverse discography ranging from Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Grieg, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, and Bartók to Blasco de Nebra, Mompou, Falla, Granados, and Turina. Here he presents a selection of sonatas by his adoptive compatriot Domenico Scarlatti, revealing the richness and inventiveness of the master harpsichordist's musical language.
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Alexander Gadjiev:2025-09-04

Legends

On his new album, centered around Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Gadjiev asks himself how music can evoke stories, sometimes from times so distant that they seem almost arcane to us. "It is precisely this fascination that led me to conceive of such an extreme selection of pieces, retracing musical experiences that perhaps most closely approach the limits of what humans can express through sound."
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Federico Colli:2025-09-01

Mozart, Volume 2

Federico Colli has always had a special relationship with Mozart – he was inspired to study music by the discovery of Mozart’s music at the age of around six. Later, he won the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. This is his second album entirely dedicated to the composer, featuring the famous Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, as well as Mozart's most famous Piano Sonata, KV 331 ("Alla Turca").
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Emanuele Delucchi:2025-08-30

Godowsky – Transcriptions

This is Delluchi's fourth album dedicated to the art of Leopold Godowsky. Its theme is pianistic counterpoint, and the possibilities of polyphony at the piano, which Godowsky stretched to the outermost reaches. The programme focuses on transcriptions and paraphrases, with the addition of Godowsky’s Prelude and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H.
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Duco Burgers:2025-08-27

Lili & Nadia Boulanger – Piano Music

Well aware of the history of music and her own position in that history, Nadia Boulanger immediately recognized the extraordinary talents of her younger sister Lili. Both sisters were to become extremely influential for the classical music scene of the twentieth century. Lili was the first female composer to win the Prix de Rome and Nadia became the most sought-after music pedagogue in the world.
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Christopher O’Riley:2025-08-24

Bach – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Christopher O’Riley’s dedication to the learning abilities and imaginations of artists led him to his latest endeavor — a traversal of J.S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier. O’Riley has also produced an online archive of video lectures entitled “Everything We Need to Know About Playing the Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier,” a series illuminating a new perspective on each Prelude and Fugue.
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