New Piano Albums
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Ekaterina Litvintseva:2025-10-03
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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."Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Andrew Yiangou:2025-10-01
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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’.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Luis Fernando Pérez:2025-09-27
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Yunchan Lim:2025-09-24
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Ingrid Fliter:2025-09-21
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Arielle Beck:2025-09-18
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Daan Vandewalle:2025-09-14
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Javier Perianes:2025-09-07
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Alexander Gadjiev:2025-09-04
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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."Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Federico Colli:2025-09-01
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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").Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Emanuele Delucchi:2025-08-30
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Duco Burgers:2025-08-27
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Christopher O’Riley:2025-08-24
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko:2025-08-20
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Alexandra Papastefanou:2025-08-16
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Tom Hicks:2025-08-14
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Giovanni Bellucci:2025-08-11
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Kristhyan Benitez:2025-08-09
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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."Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Manami Suzuki:2025-08-06
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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."Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Pervez Mody:2025-08-03
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Alessandro Simonetto:2025-07-31
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Reed Tetzloff:2025-07-28
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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."Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Alexandre Tharaud:2025-07-24
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>

Sofia Sacco:2025-07-21
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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.Audio & Booklet in NML >>