New Piano Albums

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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Benjamin Grosvenor:2023-03-28

Schumann & Brahms

This album is Benjamin Grosvenor’s seventh for Decca since 2011, when he became the youngest musician ever to sign to the label. He takes Robert Schumann’s haunting Kreisleriana as the starting point and accompanies it with several works written by, or connected to, Robert's beloved wife Clara. The album is rounded off with Brahms’ autumnal Three Intermezzi Op. 117.
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Lukas Huisman:2023-03-27

Takahashi/Nishimura – Piano Music

Lukas Huisman mainly performs contemporary music. In a research project at the Ghent School of Arts, he studies the fusion of eastern and western sound worlds in the works for piano of Japanese composers. Connected to this project, he already recorded the Complete Works for Piano by Takemitsu. His new album features music by Keitaro Takahashi (b. 1986) and Akira Nishimura (b.1953).
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Violina Petrychenko:2023-03-24

Mriya – Ukrainian Hope

Violina Petrychenko has been dedicated to the music of her homeland Ukraine for years – her fourth album with music by Ukrainian composers bears the title "Mriya" which is the Ukrainian word for dream. "This time I'm inviting my listeners to Central and Eastern Ukraine, the part of the country where I was born myself... Many of the pieces find their first recording here and it is my honor to introduce the listener to such interesting pieces."
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Duo Tal & Groethuysen:2023-03-23

Avec esprit – Gouvy, Melan-Gueroult, Saint-Saëns, Ysaÿe

These works for two pianos were written between 1874 and 1910, by four composers that moved in the same circles but pursued very different stylistic paths, and of whom Camille Saint-Saëns is the only household name. Yet this album may still be described as a "meeting between friends: we are guests at a musical salon that provides us with a unique insight into the breadth, variety and wit of these fin-de-siècle composers."
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Severin von Eckardstein:2023-03-22

Schumann – Kreisleriana, Jensen – Eroticon

Continuing his exploration of Schumann, but always keen to present works by lesser-known composers, Severin von Eckardstein has paired Kreisleriana with the complete Erotikon cycle by Adolf Jensen. "Infused as much by Schumann and Mendelssohn as by Liszt and Wagner", Jensen's work, published in Berlin in 1873, offers a comprehensive vision of German romanticism.
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Yuja Wang:2023-03-18

The American Project – Abrams/Tilson Thomas

The starting point for Teddy Abrams' Piano Concerto was talk of Yuja Wang needing a companion piece for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, but he soon found himself embracing a broader range of styles, going far beyond that brief. Almost 40 minutes long, it's a celebration of the plurality of American culture and a thrilling testimony to the remarkable abilities of the woman he calls “one of the greatest pianists alive.”
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Jean Muller:2023-03-17

Mozart – Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 4

Jean Muller has brought Mozart's piano sonatas to international stages like the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in 2016 and Salle Cortot in Paris in 2018/2019. Since then he has released three volumes of the complete set, receiving praise from several critics: "He tempers his modern Steinway with a light and luminous touch" (BBC Music Magazine)
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Rafal Blechacz:2023-03-15

Chopin – Sonatas 2 & 3, Barcarolle, Nocturne 14

Rafal Blechacz shot to fame in 2005 when he became the first Pole in three decades to take first prize at the Warsaw International Chopin Competition “I learned both sonatas while still in my teens. Now I think it was the right moment to record this program... The Funeral March movement of Sonata No. 2 has a special meaning in this difficult time", Blechacz suggests.
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