New Piano Albums

Matthias Kirschnereit:2023-10-06

Time Remembered

Each of the 36 pieces on this double album contains a personal story and was chosen because of memories and incidents connected with it. Matthias Kirschnereit says: "For me, working on Time Remembered was and is an immensely exciting journey through almost 400 years of music history with a wide variety of genres and styles."
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Laurence Oldak:2023-10-05

Chopin

A personal selection of Chopin, from the luminous atmosphere of the Waltzes to the more melancholic mood of the Mazurkas and the dramatic density of works like the Polonaise-Fantaisie or 2nd scherzo. For Laurence Oldak, "Chopin resonates with my own story: I come from a Polish family who had to flee the pogroms by settling in France...This music has accompanied me all my life.”
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Cordelia Williams:2023-10-03

Cascade – Beethoven, Prokofiev, Schumann

Cascade celebrates the depth and intensity of the smallest forms. Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives is a variegated collection of 20 miniatures with hints of Chopin, Scriabin and Shostakovich. Schumann’s Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), his last major cycle for solo piano, conjures an enchanted landscape. Early and late Beethoven bookend the programme.
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Philippe Bianconi:2023-10-01

Ravel – Complete Piano Works

Philippe Bianconi first recorded Ravel’s piano music some thirty years ago. "It still moves me as much as ever, and at the same time I realise how far my view of this music has progressed. This new recording has made the connection I have always had with Ravel’s works stronger and more personal. I’ve rediscovered my delight in the Ravelian sound-world, but I’ve also come to grips with the darker side of his music."
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Yekwon Sunwoo:2023-09-29

Rachmaninoff. A Reflection

Yekwon Sunwoo played Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto when he became the first Korean to win the top prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2017. “It was also through Rachmaninoff’s pieces that I first truly learned how to listen to music and express myself musically… I wanted to include the word ‘reflection’ in the album title because this album is, in some ways, a way for me to look back on myself.”
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Vanessa Benelli Mosell:2023-09-27

Italia

Vanessa Benelli Mosell presents 300 years of Italian piano music. Starting in the early 18th century with Scarlatti's Sonata K 141, she arrives in 2015 with Ezio Bosso's piece Emily's room. On the way there are many tributes to Italian composers, including several who are famous for other things than their piano music, such as Puccini, Verdi, Respighi, Morricone, Rota and others.
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Ani & Nia Sulkhanishvili:2023-09-24

Flowers we are... – Kurtág, Bach, Ligeti

The twins Ani and Nia Sulkhanishvili bring together piano works by György Kurtág (born 1926) and György Ligeti (1923-2006), two of the most important and internationally successful composers of the post-war era, who have one thing in common – their Hungarian roots. Interspersed with Kurtág's Games are his four-hand arrangements of pieces from Bach's Orgelbüchlein.
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Duo Schiavo-Marchegiani:2023-09-23

Mozart for Two

Marco Schiavo and Sergio Marchegiani have played together since 2006, performing in prestigious venues all over the world. They are Decca artists and have recorded albums with music by Schubert, Brahms, Mozart (Concertos) and Kozeluch. Their two albums with Mozart’s Complete Works for Piano 4-Hands (the previous one was released in 2021) were recorded at Mozarteum in Salzburg.
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José Navarro-Silberstein:2023-09-21

Vibrant Rhythms – Ginastera,
Villa-Lobos, Sandi, Schumann

José Navarro-Silberstein combines Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze with various 20th-century works from South America, resulting in a colorful blend of contrasts. Imagination and conciseness unite these 31 short pieces, characterized by a "richness of alternating pulses, rhythms, and polyrhythms that intermingle with harmony and counterpoint."
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Helene Grimaud:2023-09-19

For Clara – Schumann: Kreisleriana, Brahms: Lieder Op. 32

Grimaud revisits Schumann's Kreisleriana, a work she has known since her teenage years and has recorded once before. Partnering with baritone Konstantin Krimmel, she pairs it with songs and pieces by Brahms, exploring not only on the Schumann-Brahms relationship, but also that which bound both men to pianist-composer Clara Schumann.
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Agnieszka Panasiuk:2023-09-17

Hindemith – Ludus tonalis

Ludus tonalis, "Tonal Games", has a similar structure to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and combines the tradition of Baroque polyphony with 20th-century style. It was created during the composer’s stay in the United States – where he was lecturing in composition at Yale University – and was a great success; the first impression published in 1943 sold out quickly.
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Jacob Leuschner:2023-09-15

The Degenhof Sessions – Encores and Transcriptions from the "Golden Age"

The "Golden Age of the Piano" (roughly 1880 to the 2nd World War) was dominated by the spirit of two great piano teachers of the nineteenth century, Liszt and Leschetitzky; for whom composition, improvisation, arrangement, and interpretation were not separate domains. This CD is a product of Jacob Leuschner's long-standing involvement with this era of composer-pianists.
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Yuja Wang:2023-09-12

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody

Yuja Wang has been intensely involved with Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra since the beginning of her career, and has now taken the deepest dive possible into this endlessly rewarding but supremely taxing body of work. These recordings were taken from performances with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, spread out over two weekends in February 2023.
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Marc-André Hamelin:2023-09-10

Fauré – Nocturnes & Barcarolles

Fauré composed 13 Nocturnes and 13 Barcarolles; a microcosm of his development, from the romantic brilliance of the early works to the sophisticated harmonic imagination of his maturity. The late pieces enter another sphere altogether as Fauré distils, darkens and deepens his language. Marc-André Hamelin also collaborates with Cathy Fuller in the charming Dolly Suite for four hands.
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Danae & Kiveli Dörken:2023-09-08

Apollo and Dionysus

After her solo debut on Berlin Classics with the album Odyssey, pianist Danae Dörken presents an album together with her sister Kiveli. With four-hand works by Glass, Mendelssohn, Brahms, de Falla, Gliere, Theodorakis, Debussy, Roussel and others, they explore the roots of ancient Greece in classical music.
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Anna Shelest:2023-09-05

Anton Rubinstein – Piano Concertos 1 & 2

Anton Rubinstein was a legendary 19th-century pianist and composer, who paved the way for later and more famous Russians like Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Anna Shelest‘s collaboration with Neeme Järvi on recording Rubinstein's complete works for piano and orchestra has been praised by Gramophone Magazine for “…power and agility… effortless effect… nuanced and incisive all around.”
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Yaara Tal:2023-09-02

1923

The idea to record music either composed or first published in 1923 came to Yaara Tal from Tobias Bleek, who wrote the book In the Frenzy of the Twenties – 1923: Music in a Year of Extremes. "While searching for compositions from that year I became aware of how intertwined politics, culture, and media were at that time, and how diverse and fascinating the repertory for piano was."
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Yunchan Lim:2023-08-28

Liszt Transcendental Etudes – Live from the Cliburn

The sixteenth edition of the Cliburn Competition, where some of the world's top young pianists competed for gold, took place in June 2022 in Fort Worth, Texas. 19-year-old Yunchan Lim became the youngest person ever to win the competition. His Semifinal Round performance of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes "created a buzz throughout the international piano community" (Gramophone).
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Lydia Maria Bader:2023-08-25

Tales of the Sea

A musical treasure hunter with a fascination for foreign cultures, Lydia Maria Bader often introduces her audiences to music off the beaten track. Here she takes us to the adventurous world of oceans and seafaring. The sea, which can be heard in the six compositions of this recording, shows itself in all its facets: from meditative silence on the water to the unleashed force of nature.
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Piotr Jaworski:2023-08-23

Liszt – Opera Transcriptions

Piotr Jaworski, who performs extensively both as a pianist and conductor, makes his recording debut with this album. He is currently studying orchestral conducting at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien, and doing his PhD Studies as a pianist in the Academy of Music in Cracow, on the subject of Liszt's opera transcriptions.
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Sergei Kvitko:2023-08-21

Schubert by Candlelight
– Live in Madrid

Sergei Kvitko had played his Schubert by Candlelight program many times in different corners of the world, as he was preparing to make a studio album of the music. Then somehow, at a concert in Madrid on April 7, the stars aligned: "Everything was just right, and I felt that I could never replicate all of it together in the studio". This live performance became the album.
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Jeonghwan Kim:2023-08-18

Sydney International Piano Competition – Winner's Recital Highlights

After three weeks of grueling competition including solo, chamber music and concerto performances, Jeonghwan Kim emerged as the First Prize winner at the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition. This album presents highlight's from his winner's recital, featuring music by Mozart, Schumann, Chopin and Messiaen.
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Alice Sara Ott:2023-08-16

Beethoven Piano Concerto 1, Moonlight Sonata, Für Elise

Earlier in 2023, Alice Sara Ott became the face of the Apple Music Classical app when she starred in its launch video, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no.1. The recording with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Karina Canellakis now becomes the headline work in her latest Deutsche Grammophon album.
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Simon Mulligan:2023-08-13

Over the Hills and Far Away Grainger Piano Works Vol. 1

Simon Mulligan has been called ‘the world’s most versatile pianist’; in addition to his classical career, he has a passion for improvisation and performs as a jazz pianist with his London quartet and New York trio. Mulligan begins his complete survey of Percy Grainger's solo piano music with some of the composer's most popular melodies and folksong settings.
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