New Piano Albums

Charlotte Hu:2026-07-02

Goyescas

Charlotte Hu's first encountered Granados’ Goyescas when she was a student at Juilliard. "What struck me most was not simply the technical brilliance of the writing, but rather the poetry embedded within… Here was a masterwork that seemed to contain entire worlds: passion, tenderness, humor, shadow, and light all coexisting within its six movements."
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Daria Vasileva:2026-06-28

Scriabin – Elements

It was not until Daria Vasileva moved from Russia to Switzerland that Scriabin truly entered her life. "In this new landscape, it revealed itself with almost unexpected clarity." Under the guidance of Professor Benjamin Moser, Daria became increasingly captivated by the composer and in 2024 she won Second Prize and Special Scriabin Prize at XXVI International Scriabin Competition in Grosseto, Italy.
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Johannes Obermeier:2026-06-25

Beyond Words – Mendelssohn

Johannes Obermeier is an extremely versatile artist, who has won several national and international prizes in piano, composition, and saxophone, and holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Munich. A thoughtful selection of Lieder ohne Worte forms the essence of this album, enhanced by other Mendelssohn works.
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Jingyang Dong:2026-06-22

Quiet Irises - Piano Works by French Female Composers

Jingyang Dong champions the works of four French composers, all women who coped with the restrictions of their time in their own ways: Tailleferre was the only woman member of the French composition movement Les Six; Louise Farrenc and Nadia Boulanger became famed music teachers; Nadia’s younger sister Lili’s life was cut short by an untimely death at 24, due to a then-incurable disease.
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Yekwon Sunwoo:2026-06-18

Liszt

Somewhere in his 20s, Yekwon Sunwoo stopped playing Liszt entirely. "I felt the music was a bit showy – more about display than depth." But at 36, while weighing options for his next recording, it suddenly struck him that Liszt fit the sound he now produces. The program contains the composer's original works as well as several transcriptions, and is built around a single idea: singing on the piano.
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Rikke Sandberg:2026-06-14

Carl Nielsen – Complete Piano Works

Carl Nielsen's piano works span from his teenage years in the 1880s until the final years of his life. They include everything from large-scale, demanding compositions to small, simple five-note pieces with a pedagogical purpose. In addition, he left behind piano arrangements of incidental music and several unpublished piano pieces, which are recorded here for the first time.
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Joanna Kacperek:2026-06-11

In Plain Sight

Two piano sonatas, spanning a wide historical range, frame this album dedicated to women composers. It opens with the Keyboard Sonata by Marianna Martines, a Viennese composer tutored by Haydn, and finishes with Grazyna Bacewicz, whose Sonata No 2 combines a neo-Romantic narrative impulse with bold sonic experimentation.
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Julia Lozowska:2026-06-08

HERitage

HERitage is Julia Lozowska's debut album, combining four great 19th century works: Beethoven's Sonata op 110, Schumann's Kreisleriana, and Chopin's C-sharp minor Scherzo and Polonaise-Fantaisie. She sees it as an invitation to an "intimate conversation about identity, belonging, and the courage to be yourself.”
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Filippo Gorini:2026-06-05

Sonata for 7 Cities – Live in Cape Town

Filippo Gorini's project Sonata for 7 Cities started in Vienna and traversed all other continents to end in his hometown Milan. Staying for an entire month in each city, he played recitals and interacted with local people, bringing free concerts to schools, universities, hospitals, retirement homes, prisons, homeless shelters, and disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
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Tyler Hay:2026-06-02

Field – Piano Sonatas

Field’s 4 Piano Sonatas offer a fascinating glimpse into the early 19th-century transition from Classical to Romantic keyboard writing. Composed while Field was a pupil of Muzio Clementi in London, the first three sonatas reflect Clementi’s influence, while the later B major sonata displays greater maturity and subtlety.
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Behzod Abduraimov:2026-05-30

Inferno

The title of Behzod Abduraimov's new album may appear slightly misleading – the only item here that gives a taste of hell is Liszt's Dante Sonata. The rest is a well-balanced and interesting programme, showcasing the pianist's transcending range of colour and phenomenal dexterity.
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Jan Lisiecki:2026-05-26

Mozart – Piano Concertos 9 & 22

In 2012, Jan Lisiecki recorded Mozart's Piano Concertos 20 and 21 for his debut album with Deutsche Grammophon. Fourteen years and ten recordings later, he returns to Mozart and two other concertos, both in E-flat major. His most recent orchestral recording was without a conductor, but this time he has Maestro Manfred Honeck at his side, leading the Bamberger Symphoniker.
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Schaghajegh Nosrati:2026-05-23

Alkan – Grande Sonate, Symphonie pour piano seul

This is Schagajegh Nosrati's second all-Alkan album. "For 20 years, I have been studying the music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, and I continue to feel a strong connection to this composer. Fortunately, Alkan is gradually enjoying greater popularity than he did two decades ago, at least among performers and lovers of Romantic piano music."
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Arcadi Volodos:2026-05-20

Schubert – Sonata 17, D. 850
Schumann – Kinderszenen, Op. 15

In a live recording from the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Arcadi Volodos brings together two very different romantic classics. "For me, these are two distinct worlds. Schubert is all about continuity and the unbroken flow of a musical idea...Whereas Schumann is made up of contrasts, of sudden breaks and moments of blinding intensity."
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Nelson Goerner:2026-05-17

Handel, Schumann, Schulz-Evler

Nelson Goerner presents an eclectic album with Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze as the centerpiece, bookended by two virtuoso works of very different character: Handel's Chaconne with 21 variations, and Schultz-Evler's spectacular transcription of Johan Strauss' By the Beautiful Blue Danube.
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Vsevolod Zavidov:2026-05-13

Rachmaninoff – Études-tableaux, Corelli Variations etc.

The programme on this album is the same as the one Vsevolod Zavidov prepared for a concert in La Roque-d’Anthéron in 2023, an event that proved to be the beginning of a new journey for the then 17-year-old Russian. "Since then, I have never returned home. And so, perhaps, for me it became more than just a programme. It has become a symbol – the light that pours even into the darkest of times."
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Kun-Woo Paik:2026-05-09

Schubert – Sonatas 13, 14, 18 & 20

Kun-Woo Paik marks his 80th birthday and the 70th anniversary of his debut with an album reflecting his life as a pianist. Schubert's Sonata No. 13 was one of the earliest piano sonatas he learned. "Sonata No. 20, on the other hand, was a piece I left aside for a long time… I wanted to look at these works again and come closer to their truth.”
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Violetta Khachikyan:2026-05-05

Wings of Renaissance

This album is partly dedicated to rarely performed works from the Renaissance, early Baroque, and Classical periods. The decision to play music written for harpsichord or clavichord on a modern concert grand connects with Ravel’s vision in Tombeau de Couperin, exploring the formal language of the Baroque, while at the same time writing music of the composer's own present.
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Dasol Kim:2026-05-02

Schumann – Waldszenen, Carnaval, Geistervariationen

"Schumann’s music has always felt like a reflection of something deeply human... When I first heard it as a child, I felt it reaching straight toward my heart, and that impression has never left me. His music does not disguise itself behind form or logic; it breathes, it trembles, it loves without restraint. Perhaps that is why I have always found it so natural to play, because it asks only for honesty."
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Aline Piboule:2026-04-29

Archipel – Claude Debussy, John Ireland

In 2016, Aline Piboule gave the first performance of Debussy's La Mer as transcribed by Yann Olivo. Since then, she has researched works attuned to the spirit of La Mer, with a view to building the programme for an album: "one in which I wanted to express my affection for this masterpiece, as well as my general fascination for the whole world of the sea."
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Nikola Avramovic:2026-04-27

Origins

Nikola Avramovic grew up in a house filled with traditional folk music. Formal education steered him towards a more classical path, but while he was living in China, nostalgia made him return to the melodies of his childhood. The album provides a musical journey through the landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe, blending piano virtuosity with the soul of folk tradition.
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Isata Kanneh-Mason:2026-04-24

Prokofiev

Isata Kanneh-Mason first heard Prokofiev's Concerto No 3 at the age of 18. She instantly fell in love with the work and dreamed about playing it herself. Years later, it has become a key part of her concert life – "I feel very free when I perform it." The album places the Concerto at the centre of a wider programme exploring Prokofiev's piano music.
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Fazil Say:2026-04-21

Piano Sonatas – Berg, Schubert

Fazil Say discovered Alban Berg's Sonata Op 1 at the age of 15 through his composition teacher. Berg became "one of the main figures who opened the door for me to contemporary music." Schubert's Sonata D. 960 had not been on Say's repertoire until recently, but after studying it during the pandemic, he began to feel and understand the piece deeply.
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Maria Perrotta:2026-04-18

Bach – Die Kunst der Fuge

Maria Perrotta came to the limelight in 2012 with her live performance of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, later released on CD by Decca Records. The Art of Fugue, Bach's last great work, has been brought to life on various keyboard instruments and arranged for countless different ensembles: here it is played on the Stephen Paulello Opus 102 grand piano.
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