New Piano Albums

Giorgi Gigashvili:2023-05-17

Meeting my Shadow – Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms, Scriabin, Messiaen

A student of Nelson Goerner in Geneva, supported by Martha Argerich, the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation and the Géza Anda Foundation, Giorgi Gigashvili is a current Classeek Ambassador Programme artist. Alongside his career as a classical pianist, he is passionate about Georgian folksongs, which he likes to arrange and sing; he also performs with an electronic, experimental music group, Tsuneba.
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Anna Fedorova:2023-05-15

Rachmaninoff & Silvestrov – Piano Concerto 3, The Messenger

With this album, Anna Fedorova completes her cycle of Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos on Channel Classics Records. "Unfortunately, the situation in my native country Ukraine overclouds the celebratory mood…Many people think we should not perform Russian music for a while, but I find performing his music very important nowadays, not just because his music is so beautiful, powerful and emotionally fulfilling, but also because of his story: he himself was a victim of Russian state…we need Rachmaninoff by our side fighting for life, humanity and all that is good in this world!"
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Kotaro Fukuma:2023-05-13

Fantasy – Scriabin & Rachmaninoff

First Prize winner at the 15th Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2003, Kotaro Fukuma has since released more than fifteen albums. This one focuses on works with the theme of “fantasy” from the early periods of Alexander Scriabin, whose 150th anniversary we celebrated in 2022, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, one year his junior.
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Shani Diluka:2023-05-11

Pulse – Philip Glass, John Adams, Terry Riley, and others

Pulse pays tribute to the hypnotic music of minimalism, with works by John Adams, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, John Cage and Moondog, among others. Shani Diluka: "It resonates with the pulsing beat of the world itself – not only to the fluttering of streams and the breathing of trees, but also to the man-made will-o’-the-wisp that is the urban metronome."
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Ekaterina Litvintseva:2023-05-09

Chopin – Works for Piano and Orchestra

Among Ekaterina Litvintseva's previous eight albums are highly acclaimed live recordings of piano concertos by Mozart, Chopin, and Brahms – “a notable moment in the history of Chopin interpretation”, wrote Fanfare Magazine in 2015. The new album features Chopin's other works for piano and orchestra: Variations on “Là ci darem”, Fantasia on Polish Airs, Krakowiak, and Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise.
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Philip Edward Fisher:2023-05-06

John Corogliano – Complete Solo Piano Music

John Corigliano is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, five GRAMMY Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. His solo piano music, presented here by Philip Edward Fisher, ranges from the virtuosic and theatrical Piano Concerto, the minimalist techniques of the Fantasia on an Ostinato, the devilish discipline of Étude Fantasy, and Winging It, based on improvisations.
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Lukáš Vondrácek:2023-05-03

Rachmaninoff – Complete Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody

When Lukáš Vondrácek triumphed at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2016 (the first-ever Czech pianist to do so), he did so with a performance of the feared but beloved Piano Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninov. For the Russian composer's 150th anniversary, he has recorded all four Concertos and the Paganini Rhapsody.
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Roderick Chadwick:2023-05-01

Souvenirs d'oiseaux – Messiaen and others

Roderick Chadwick often performs some of the most challenging works for piano, and is a particular expert on Messiaen. This double album is a continuation of his journey through Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux (Bird Catalog), programming it alongside an array of solo piano works that share its themes, atmospheres and inspirations.
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Han Chen:2023-05-01

Ligeti – Etudes, Capriccios

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Rachel Cheung:2023-04-29

Reflections – Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel

Rachel Cheung won over audiences and critics alike as a finalist at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and was awarded the Audience Prize by online vote. This is her international debut album featuring the Chopin Preludes Op. 28, Beethoven's Sonata 31st Piano Sonata Miroirs by Ravel.
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Marco Mantovani:2023-04-28

Hommage à E.T.A. Hoffmann Schumann – Fantasiestücke, Kreisleriana

This recording is part of Marco Mantovani's doctoral research, which focuses on six piano opuses that Schumann composed between 1836 and 1838, a great turning point in his personal and artistic life. Among other things, Mantovani has studied how these works were inspired by the style and psychology of writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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Nils Anders Mortensen:2023-04-26

Bach – Partitas Nos. 1, 5 & 6

This is Nils Anders Mortensen's fourth solo recording on the Lawo Classics label and the first of two releases on which he presents Bach’s Six Partitas. Mortensen won the Norwegian Young Pianist Competition in 1986, when he was fifteen, and ten years later received the Debutant of the Year Award of Concerts Norway. He has recorded for BIS, 2L, and Lawo Classics.
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Minsoo Hong:2023-04-24

Moment of Eternity – Liszt, Szymanowski, Schumann

During the coronavirus pandemic, Minsoo Hong wondered what he could do to make the mental stress more bearable. His solution was fantasy – "I imagined what would make me happy if I were a different person." Consequently, all three works on the new album play with identity and facade, art and that which defines our lives.
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Jenny Lin:2023-04-22

Bolcom – Suite of Preludes

William Bolcom’s Suite of Preludes was given its World Premiere in 2021 at Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York by Jenny Lin. Composed during the Coronavirus lockdown, this nine-movement suite is comprised of miniatures that reveal the personal side of Bolcom - they contain elements of humor, obscure thematic quotes, jazz chords - all within the European American style for which the composer is known.
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Orazio Sciortino:2023-04-21

C.P.E. Bach – Concertos & works for solo piano

While Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's influence on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, not to mention the Romantics, is fully recognized today, his music is still severely underrepresented in the world of recorded music. Here is an opportunity to listen to his expressive and daring concertos and solo works performed on a modern piano.
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Magali Goimard:2023-04-19

José David – Piano Works

Magali Gomard's predilection for rare musicians led her to the discovery of the music of José David, to which she has dedicated a festival in the Sables-d’Olonne since 2014. The current album is intended as a first portrait of David’s music for the piano, complete with a great number of still unpublished works that have been given to her by Jean-Léo David, son of the composer.
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Geister Duo:2023-04-18

Debussy – Six épigraphes antiques, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Stravinsky – Petrushka

David Salmon and Manuel Vieillard have been playing as the Geister Duo for almost ten years now. For this album they have chosen three major works composed and created at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Works marked by total creative freedom, and by a modernity combined with a kind of powerfully dreamy timelessness.
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Boris Giltburg:2023-04-16

Rachmaninov – Piano Concertos 1 & 4, Paganini Rhapsody

The first volume in Boris Giltburg's complete Rachmaninov concerto series, coupled with the Études-tableaux and the Corelli Variations, won the award for Best Solo Recording at the inaugural Opus Klassik Awards. Here he couples the 1st and 4th Concertos with the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a concerto in all but name.
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Olga Solovieva:2023-04-13

Stanchinsky – Complete Piano Works 2

The second and final volume of Olga Solovieva’s complete edition contains all of Alexey Stanchinsky’s published piano pieces composed after 1910, as well as recently discovered early works. Solovieva: "Stanchinsky’s music is like an exposed nerve, all at the limits of the senses. It reveals the innermost feelings, expressing what is in the soul."
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Vestard Shimkus:2023-04-11

Debussy – Preludes

The cycle of Debussy's 24 Preludes contains enchanting "sound paintings" that remind us of a walk through an art gallery. For Vestard Shimkus, it has also become a key to appreciating the beauty of the world – everything that exists in reality and in our imagination. "This music helps me see the world as an endlessly vast gallery filled with works of art that have been created by the supreme artist."
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Cédric Tiberghien:2023-04-08

Variation[s]

Through six programs, Cédric Tiberghien proposes to take listeners on a journey through the world of variations, from Sweelinck to Kurtág. All of Beethoven’s variation cycles will be juxtaposed with works illustrating the evolution of the genre. On this double CD are parts 1 and 2, containing works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, and Webern.
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Alexander Krichel:2023-04-05

My Rachmaninoff – Corelli Variations, Études-tableaux, Preludes, Vocalise

Alexander Krichel celebrates Rachmaninoff's 150th birthday with a personal tribute, performing works that have shaped his own strong connection to the composer and inviting listeners to musically discover Rachmaninoff’s biography. Krichel has previously recorded the Russian composer's Second Piano Concerto and Moments Musicaux to critical acclaim (Sony, 2015).
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Sarah Beth Briggs:2023-04-02

Variations

This collection of Variations underlines a lineage of the genre through the classical and romantic eras, with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Sara Beth Briggs recorded Beethoven's Variations on God Save the King a month before the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, not knowing that its release would herald the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023.
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Maurizio Zaccaria:2023-03-31

Rachmaninov – Preludes Op. 23

Maurizio Zaccaria records prolifically for the OnClassical label – he recently finished the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas. Now he goes on to Rachmaninov's 24 Preludes. The C sharp minor Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 was released a few weeks ago, and now it's the Op. 23 set. The last 13 Preludes (Op. 32) will be made available in April.
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