New Piano Albums

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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Jaeden Izik-Dzurko:2025-08-20

Beethoven, Medtner, Schumann

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko was the 2024 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition. He also recently became the first Canadian instrumentalist to be awarded the Grand Prize at the Concours Musical International de Montréal. The album features Beethoven's lyrical Andante Favori and romantic and virtuoso sonatas by Schumann and Medtner.
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Alexandra Papastefanou:2025-08-16

Bach – English Suites

Alexandra Papastefanou has long pursued an in-depth study of J.S. Bach’s music. Her book J.S. Bach, the musician of the Infinite, on the aesthetics and performance of Bach’s music, was published in Greek in 2022. She has performed all of Bach’s keyboard works and has previously recorded the Well-Tempered Clavier, the French Suites, and the Goldberg Variations to much critical acclaim.
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Tom Hicks:2025-08-14

Chopin – Complete Nocturnes

In recording these nocturnes, Tom Hicks includes some variants rarely heard in performance and especially in recordings. Referencing Jan Ekier's edition as well as manuscripts and early editions, Hicks pays homage to Chopin’s multifaceted creative process and to the composer's performance and teaching tradition, in which improvisations were central.
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Giovanni Bellucci:2025-08-11

Beethoven – Complete Piano Sonatas

Giovanni Bellucci's musical talent emerged in 1979, when he was just fourteen and had discovered the piano by accident. Self-taught, Bellucci more or less immediately performed Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas to the astonishment of critics, among them Piero Rattalino, who called Bellucci "a force of unleashed nature". Now, after almost half a century of perfecting his interpretation of these works, Bellucci has recorded the entire cycle.
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Kristhyan Benitez:2025-08-09

Latin American Classics, Vol. 2

Kristhyan Benitez’s first album of Latin American Classics won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in 2021. "I am proud to present LATIN AMERICAN CLASSICS VOL . 2 – a continuation of my artistic mission to reveal the depth, elegance, and expressive power of Latin America’s piano repertoire."
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Manami Suzuki:2025-08-06

Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Szymanowski

Manami Suzuki was the First Prize, Chamber Music Award and Audience Prize winner of last year's Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. These are the works that she performed in the competition, "including the Schubert Sonata D 894, a work that changed my life. I am very happy to present a miraculously beautiful musical world that is extremely important to me."
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Pervez Mody:2025-08-03

Scriabin – Piano Works

Pervez Mody has spent more than fifteen years recording Scriabin's complete piano music on the Thorofon label. Together with the final recording, Hänssler Classic now re-releases all the previous volumes in a 8 CD-set with just over 200 tracks. Mody was born in Mumbai, India, and later studied in Moscow with professor Margarita Fyodorova, who was the one who introduced him to the world of Scriabin.
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Alessandro Simonetto:2025-07-31

Bach – Notebook for Anna Magdalena

After studies in piano, harpsichord, and modern composition, Simonetto spent several years producing over 500 recordings for various artists and labels. As the founder of OnClassical, the first classical label to offer its full repertoire online for direct download, he has significantly influenced the music industry. He later returned to performing, earning critical acclaim for his recordings of Satie, Paradisi, Scott Joplin and others.
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Reed Tetzloff:2025-07-28

Beethoven – Piano Concertos 1–3, Triple Concerto

Reed Tetzloff and Pawel Kapula recorded Beethoven's fourth and fifth Piano Concertos last year and now return to complete the cycle. According to Tetzloff, each of the first three concertos "reveal Beethoven’s artistic confrontation with Mozart: from the virtuoso exuberance of the first two – showcase works written for him to play – to the drama of the third."
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Alexandre Tharaud:2025-07-24

Satie – Discoveries

The pieces presented here are the fruits of research carried out in various archival collections by Japanese composer Sato Matsui and British musicologist and composer James Nye, both of them Satie specialists. According to Tharaud, the discovery of these works in Paris and Boston – forgotten manuscripts and incomplete sketches – enhances our understanding of the multiple facets of this enigmatic composer.
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Sofia Sacco:2025-07-21

Shostakovich – The Preludes & Fugues

Shostakovich’s music is a profound passion and influence for Sofia Sacco, and she is committed to play and record all his works for piano – as an Artist in Residence for the Società del Quartetto di Bergamo she will perform his complete works in the coming years. Inquisitive and widely curious, she also has an exam in Physics from the University of Padua.
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Lilit Grigoryan:2025-07-18

Sonata Facile

The title of this tribute to the sonatina genre, translating as "Easy Sonata", is deceptive: the six works Grigoryan has chosen, by composers such as Mozart, Ravel, Beethoven and Medtner, prove to be musically profound and technically demanding. “What is easy, what is difficult?” asks Grigoryan, emphasizing that the art lies in shaping even a few notes with expression, virtuosity and technical finesse.
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Mathieu Gaudet:2025-07-15

Schubert – Variations

Volume 11 of Gaudet’s Schubert cycle, combining the complete sonatas with other important works, starts with the youthful and rarely heard Sonata No. 2 in C major D.279. The exploration continues with the 12 short, charming and "Noble" Waltzes, before concluding with a late masterpiece – the second book of Impromptus D. 935, including the immortal Theme and Variations in B flat major.
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Christian Ihle Hadland:2025-07-10

Mozart – Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1

Christian Ihle Hadland came to international attention in 2011 when he began a two-year stint as a BBC New Generation Artist. His disc of Mozart Piano Concertos (2014) was nominated for the Spellemann Prize in 2014, the highest honour for recorded music in Norway. A decade on, he embarks on the project of recording all of Mozart's solo piano music.
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Shoko Kawasaki:2025-07-06

Die Tastenkunst – Chopin, Debussy, Ligeti

Shoko Kawasaki studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and then worked on her dissertation at the same university, analyzing and examining G. Ligeti's piano etudes from the perspective of a practicing pianist. On this album, a selection of Ligeti's etudes are played alongside those of Chopin and Debussy.
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Konstantinos Destounis:2025-07-04

Ravel – Complete Piano Solo Works

Konstantinos Destounis represented Greece at the Eurovision Young Musicians in Vienna, and is also the winner of several international piano competitions. Here he celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth with an album of the French composer's complete piano solo works.
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Yuval Zorn:2025-06-29

Rameau, Szymanowski & Debussy – Masques, Images & Hommages

"This album was created during a time of war, the full impact of which is yet to be understood, and making it provided me with a much needed safe haven from the turbulence outside. Much like Debussy's 'And the moon sets upon the temple that was', the music here embodies not only the decay of an old order but also the potential growth of a new one, with its hopes and perils."
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Silver Garburg Piano Duo & Artis Quartett:2025-06-24

Grosse Fuge

Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg have now been successful as the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo for more than 20 years. Joined by the Artis Quartet, they present Beethoven's Great Fugue, Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D 617 in a version for piano duo and string quartet, and the work “Synopsis for piano four hands and string quartet I & II”, written for the ensemble by Austrian composer Richard Dünser.
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Mariam Batsashvili:2025-06-17

Influences

This album shows how four composers expressed themselves through the sonata form; it begins with Haydn’s Sonata No.37, in three-movement Classical Viennese style, and ends with Liszt’s one-movement “Dante” Sonata. Between them are Mozart’s last sonata, K.576, and Beethoven’s Appassionata, “completely revolutionary in the way he used the entirety of the keyboard,” says Batsashvili.
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Benjamin Grosvenor:2025-06-13

Chopin — Sonatas 2 & 3

On his ninth album for Decca classics, Benjamin Grosvenor explores Chopin's Piano sonatas 2 & 3, profound and contrasting works that together showcase the whole of Chopin’s emotional and musical range. Alongside the sonatas are three shorter works: the G minor Ballade, the Berceuse, and two Nocturnes.
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