New Piano Albums

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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Schaghajegh Nosrati:2025-06-10

Haydn — Sonatas, Variations, Capriccio

For Schaghajegh Nosrati, Haydn, because of his thorough study of the works and writings of CPE Bach, became the true successor of Johann Sebastian Bach. "For all their stylistic differences, an underlying affinity between the two composers is unmistakable and may have been one reason why I, as a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, felt drawn to Haydn‘s music early on."
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Jennifer Lim:2025-06-07

Mozart — Complete Piano Sonatas

Mozart's piano sonatas have accompanied Jennifer Lim through cherished moments, from fond memories shared with her father to precious experiences on stage, providing her with comfort and inspiration. “Each note carries a piece of my jour­ney, serving as a reminder of the joy and comfort they’ve brought me over the years."
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Marcel Tadokoro:2025-06-04

Henselt — Piano Études

The 19-th century composer-pianist Adolf von Henselt was influential in establishing a true Russian school of pianism and held in high esteem by Rachmaninov. Henselt’s virtuoso technique was admired for its cantabile qualities but his performing career was cut short by extreme stage fright. These early études blend technical demands with poetic expressiveness reflected in colourful descriptive titles.
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Tuija Hakkila:2025-05-29

Touches — Saariaho: Piano and Harpsichord Works

Tuija Hakkila met Kaija Saariaho in 1982 when the composer moved to Paris, where Hakkila was studying at the time. Saariaho's musical thinking mirrored Hakkila's experiences, and a friendship was born that lasted for more than 40 years, until Saariaho passed away in 2023. The pianist describes this music as "a profusion of rippling and shifting colours".
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Yuja Wang:2025-05-25

Shostakovich – Piano Concertos & Solo Works

In Shostavich's sporadic piano output, the crowning achievements are two piano concertos, and a set of twenty-four preludes and fugues – a complex musical dialogue with Bach regarded as one of the masterpieces of the modern keyboard literature. Here, Yuja Wang performs the Concertos together with Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons, and rounds off with a selection of Preludes and Fugues.
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Justin Taylor:2025-05-19

Chopin intime

JustinTaylor pursues a multifaceted career as a harpsichordist and pianist, both as a soloist and as a chamber music player. His 2023 album Bach & Italy picked up plenty of awards, including Diapason d’Or of the Year, and BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice. On this album, he performs on a Pleyel pianino of 1839, the instrument of silvery, velvet sonorities on which Chopin composed his Preludes.
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Duo Geniušas-Geniushene:2025-05-13

Hallelujah Junction – Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Copland

Husband-and-wife piano duo explores 20th century music for piano duo, with John Adams' Halleluja Junction, named after a truck stop near the California-Nevada border, as the centerpiece. Lukas is a laureate of several prestigious piano competitions, including Tchaikovsky (2015) and Chopin (2010); Anna was the runner-up to Yunchan Lim at the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition.
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