New Piano Albums

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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Sten Lassmann:2023-08-12

Heino Eller – Complete Piano Music Vol. 9

"It is both with a sense of accomplishment and a tinge of melancholy that I introduce here the last volume of the series covering all of Heino Eller’s 206 piano works. This remarkable body of music has been hitherto largely unrepresented in the recording catalogues, an omission that has taken a dozen years to set right."
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Su Yeon Kim:2023-08-10

Mozart Recital

Even after ten years of diligent studies at the Mozarteum University, Su Yeon Kim still felt like there were a few steps left before she fully understood Mozart's music. But this didn't prevent her from loving Mozart and wanting to share this affection with listeners, which is what she does in this unusually varied Mozart recital.
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Martin Jones & Adrian Farmer:2023-08-08

Hahn, Koechlin, Tailleferre – Piano Duo

The duo on this album is made up of two veterans of the trade – Martin Jones has made over 90 recordings with Nimbus Records including the complete works of 18 composers; and Adrian Farmer has recorded for the label since 1979, acting as the company's Music Director from the mid-1980s. Their two recent CDs of music by Saint-Saëns were met with great acclaim.
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Anna Khomichko:2023-08-05

Mozart and his Europe

"Four composers – two brothers from Germany, an Austrian child prodigy, and a virtuoso Italian from London – have gathered around a modern grand piano for a private concert that is supposed to show them that the cultivation of their music is not faring all so badly at the beginning of the twenty-first century..."
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Takashi Yasunami:2023-08-03

Schubert, Dohnányi

Takashi Yasunami has thoroughly studied the complete piano works of Ernst von Dohnányi as part of his doctorate at the Tokyo College of Music. He has also studied the works of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Liszt intensively, and In 2021 he won the 1st prize of the Dortmund International Schubert Competition.
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Mirna Lekic:2023-07-31

Mirage

Mirage is a collection of sonic illusions, allusions, and transformations that celebrate the piano’s unique capability to imitate, echo and morph into other instruments, and features works by 11 composers from different eras and nationalities. Mirna Lekicc is a pianist and educator who plays a wide range of repertoire, reflecting her interests in intercultural music, historical performance practice, and contemporary works.
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Marianna Shirinyan:2023-07-28

Chopin – Ballades, Scherzos

Marianna Shirinyan is a professor of piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and guest professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, in addition to curating several chamber music festivals across Europe. Her new recording is a compilation of the Ballades and Scherzi by Frédéric Chopin, which she dedicates to her first piano teacher Margarita Hakobyan.
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Ewa Skardowska:2023-07-25

Polish Piano Preludes Anew

These Preludes share their Polish origin, their state of neglect, and the time they were created – in the first 40 years of the 20th century. Musically speaking however, "they differ in almost everything". Their authors were renowned composers (Rózycki, Friedman), often outstanding pianists (Hofmann, Friedman, Gawronski, Wertheim), but also talented aristocrats like Jan Konopka and Wincenty Chrzanowski.
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Ketevan Sepashvili:2023-07-22

Moments – Chopin, Gabunia

The Georgian composer Nodar Gabunia studied at the Moscow Conservatory before returning to Tbilisi to teach at the State Conservatory. He pursued an international career as a concert pianist and composed a large number of works that feature modern compositional techniques and elements of modal harmonies, even though he never fully abandoned tonality.
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Jean-Jacques Bedikian:2023-07-19

Rachmaninov – Études-Tableaux

"When I was thirteen years old, I entered a competition in Paris, after which a professor came to me and gave me a CD of the Études-Tableaux. He said to me: “You will understand later, and you will see that it will be clear to you”. And that’s what happened, from the very first time I listened to it, I entered into this music as if I already knew it, as if I perceived the beating of a heart behind the score and the notes."
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Matthew Mills:2023-07-17

Bagatelles – Piano Music by Bernard Hughes

"This album brings together pretty much all my music for solo piano written over the course of more than 30 years, the earliest from when I was still at school and the latest written just weeks before being recorded, in October 2022. The inspiration was my pianist and friend, Matthew Mills, who suggested the project and who has put untold hours into learning and animating the music, some of which is very straightforward, and lots of which is very much not."
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