New Piano Albums

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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Zoe Samsarelou:2023-07-14

Ek-stasis – Dionysus, Nymphs and Satyrs

All the pieces here are related to the myth of Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, passion and pathos, whose worship is identified with mystical religious ecstasy/ek-stasis and whose permanent retinue consists of Pan, the satyrs, and the nymphs. Samzarelou writes that despite differences in time and origin, there are common elements in the way composers reconstruct this myth into music.
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Marc Peloquin:2023-07-11

Many Hands – The Piano Music of David Del Tredici

David Del Tredici is generally recognized as the father of the American Neo-Romantic movement in music and has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He credits pianist Marc Peloquin with getting him back to writing music for piano after a 20 year hiatus. With the release of this 3-CD set, Peloquin has now recorded the composer's complete piano music.
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Orli Shaham:2023-07-08

Mozart – Piano Sonatas Vol. 4

During a journey to Munich in his late teens, Mozart wrote six “calling cards” to play at the homes of potential benefactors. Three of these — the Sonatas K. 280, K. 279, and K. 284 — form this disc, the fourth in Orli Shaham's cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas. The musicologist Alfred Einstein would describe these pieces as “a microcosm of feeling and subtlety of form, but a very complicated one.”
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Quattro Mani:2023-07-06

Hallelujah Junction

Steven Beck and Susan Grace play a selection of 20th- and 21st-century music for two pianos. The name Hallelujah Junction comes from a small truck stop near the California–Nevada border. Composer John Adams said of the piece: “Here we have a case of a great title looking for a piece. So now the piece finally exists: the “junction” being the interlocking style of two-piano writing".
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Jorge Federico Osorio:2023-07-03

Conciertos románticos – Ponce, Castro

Jorge Federico Osorio has documented a wide variety of repertoire, but is especially noted as a great interpreter of Spanish and Mexican repertoire. Ricardo Castro and Manuel Maria Ponce made significant contributions to Mexican classical music, and their music reflects a synthesis of American and European traditions, with influences from Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy.
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Isata Kanneh-Mason:2023-06-30

Childhood Tales

Isata Kanneh-Mason evokes the magic of childhood on her third solo album, centred around Ernö Dohnányi’s now rarely performed Variations on a Nursery Song, expanding the well-known ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ into a truly virtuosic work. Subtitled “for the enjoyment of friends of humour, to the annoyance of others”, it was performed almost every year at the Proms from 1920s to 1950s.
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Izabella Simon & Dénes Várjon:2023-06-28

Mahler – Symphony No. 1, piano 4 hands

This transcription of Mahler's First Symphony was made by one of the best interpreters of Mahler’s music: the conductor Bruno Walter. "This immediate encounter with the work and with the genius of Mahler was a path of great discovery and an incredible adventure for us", say Izabella Simon & Dénes Várjon, husband and wife who form a piano duo with a special interest in rarely played works.
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Anna Zassimova:2023-06-26

Chopin – Ballades 2 & 4, Scherzo 4, Mazurkas & Waltzes

Anna Zassimova has an unusually broad artistic education, with degrees in musicology and art history. She has recieved a lot of praise for her interpretations of music by overlooked Romantic and modernist Russian composers such as Medtner, Catoire, Roslavets and Wyschnegradsky, and considers Chopin her great 'non-Russian' love.
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Aaron Pilsan:2023-06-24

Schumann – Kreisleriana, Geistervariationen, Widmann – Elf Humoresken

Jörg Widmann was obviously inspired by Schumann’s music when he composed his Eleven Humoresques. These pieces evoke Schumann already through their titles, but according to Aaron Pilsan, "even Widmann's musical language is very similar, even though their styles are obviously very different. The starting point...is from feelings, from the emotions and sentiments."
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Elizabeth Sombart:2023-06-23

Mozart – Piano Concertos 20, 21, 23, 27

Elisabeth Sombart has a strong relationship with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Pierre Vallet; they have previously made acclaimed recordings of Beethoven's complete Piano Concertos together. The four concertos on this new album belong to Mozart's greatest and span his last six years, 1785–1791.
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Josu de Solaun:2023-06-20

Nocturnes on the Margins

This live recording of a concert given by Josu de Solaun in 2019 offers a different interpretation of one of the most popular solo piano genres: the nocturne. Avoiding the canonical works by Chopin, he explores the less familiar margins of the repertoire: “This album of crepuscular thoughts and melting music is an invitation to the dream world: a journey to the far reaches of the night”.
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Olli Mustonen:2023-06-19

Rautavaara, Martinu – Piano Concertos Nos. 3

Premièred in 1999 by Vladimir Ashkenazy, to whom it is dedicated, Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No 3, subtitled Gift of Dreams, has managed to join the small group of concertos from the end of the 20th century that are now regarded as part of the established repertoire. Olli Mustonen pairs it with Martinu's Third Concerto, composed 50 years earlier.
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Zlata Chochieva:2023-06-15

Im Freien

Sensitive to nature and to the emotions it inspires, Zlata Chochieva has conceived this very personal album with a wide diversity of climates, from Schumann’s Waldszenen and Ravel's Miroirs to Bartók’s mysterious nocturnal music and Schultz-Evler's virtouso Arabesque on themes from The Beautiful Blue Danube.
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