New Piano Albums

Pascal Rogé:2026-04-15

Fauré – 13 Barcarolles, Dolly Suite

Pascal Rogé celebrates his 75th birthday with a new album, presenting Fauré’s complete Barcarolles, alongside works for four hands, played with Rogé’s wife, Elena Font. The legendary pianist is especially known for his interpretations of French repertoire, and Fauré has been a key composer throughout Rogé's career.
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Martin James Bartlett:2026-04-11

Bach, Mozart, Britten – Concertos

"Young Apollo forms a natural counterpart to Mozart’s Jeunehomme. Both are works of youth, written by composers in their early 20s, each standing on the threshold of artistic maturity." Martin James Bartlett opens the album with Bach's D minor Concerto – one of the earliest concertos for a keyboard instrument, which inspired Britten centuries later.
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Jan Cmejla:2026-04-07

Live at Bachfest Leipzig

In March 2025, Jan Cmejla won first prize, the audience prize, and several special prizes at the Bach Competition in Leipzig, which was dedicated exclusively to piano for the first time in its 75-year history. In 2026, he was named "SWR Kultur New Talent," which means he will receive support from the German broadcasting corporation for three years.
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Ilia Ovcharenko:2026-04-03

Manu Sinistra

This left-hand concerto album is supported by the Honens Competition, of which Ilia Ovcharenko was a Prize Laureate in 2022. The concertos were all created for the renowned pianist Paul Wittgenstein after he lost his arm during World War I. "Today, with war and tragedy sadly continuing to shadow our world, this music feels more relevant than ever."
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Weiyin Chen:2026-03-30

La Belle Époque

This album celebrates an epoch when music, dance and art inspired one another in abundance. Weiyin Chen performs music by composers from "La Belle Époque" (1871–1914) and works from the Ballet Russe, the legendary ballet company based in Paris that was instrumental in bringing together artists across disciplines, such as Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, and Stravinsky.
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Vyacheslav Gryaznov:2026-03-28

Rhapsody in Black

Vyacheslav Gryaznov plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and his own new work Rhapsody in Black, inspired by themes from Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Gryaznov first wrote the piece for two pianos and later orchestrated it for an ensemble including an onstage big band, an extensive drum set part, and an acoustic jazz bass.
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Claire-Marie Le Guay:2026-03-25

Bach – Écouter la lumière

Claire-Marie Le Guay's first album (2015) featured a selection of Bach’s monumental works for keyboard (First Partita, Italian Concerto, Capriccio BWV 992). This time, she is exploring the most intimate aspects of her own relationship to Bach’s music. "Over time, this music seems to me even closer to us, more vital than ever in uncertain times, more beneficial to us as we build or rebuild ourselves."
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Kenji Miura:2026-03-22

Heimat – Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms

Of the four countries Kenji Miura has lived in, Germany has become the place where he has spent most of his life – a realisation that first came as a shock, as he never felt as though he belonged there. A question arose: What is Home? "In finding my way into German music… I also found my way deeper into the place I now call Heimat."
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Isabelle O'Connell:2026-03-19

Cocteau

This album is built around Rhona Clarke's piano suite "Cocteau", written for Isabelle O'Connell and inspired by Jean Cocteau’s drawings. For O'Connell, it seemed almost self-evident that the work should be performed alongside music by the artist’s contemporaries in Paris a century ago. Satie immediately came to mind, along with Le Groupe des Six for whom Cocteau was the figurehead, mentor, and cheerleader.
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Imogen Cooper:2026-03-15

Beethoven – The Last Three Sonatas

"It has taken many years for me to perceive the last three sonatas by Beethoven as the evolving journey I now feel them to be. A combination of wariness of Op. 109 and overawe of Op. 111 kept me solely concentrated on Op. 110... Now, in my final year of performing, it would be hard for me to play any of the last three sonatas alone, so potent is the journey from first to last."
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Christian Blackshaw:2026-03-12

Schubert – A Moment in Time

A Moment in Time explores Franz Schubert’s late masterworks – the Four Impromptus, D. 899, composed in 1827, and the Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960, one of Schubert’s last major works for solo piano, from 1828. For Blackshaw, these performances are a personal reflection – a snapshot in time of both Schubert’s genius and his own lifelong engagement with these works.
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Georgijs Osokins:2026-03-08

Chopin & Rachmaninoff

Georgijs Osokins gained international recognition at age 19 after competing in the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition, where he became something of an audience favorite. Here, he focuses on Chopin's late works (Opp. 57-61), followed by Rachmaninoff's Chopin Variations. "I perceive this recording as one lonely path from the first enigmatic bars of Berceuse until the last significant chord of Polonaise-Fantasie."
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Konstantin Scherbakov:2026-03-04

Rachmaninoff – Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol. 2 Echoes of Tomorrow

Konstantin Scherbakov won the 1st Rachmaninoff Piano Competition in Moscow in 1983, and in 1990, he launched his career in Western Europe by performing the composer's complete Solo Piano Works in four recitals at the XXth International Chamber Music Festival in Asolo, Italy. He has continued playing Rachmaninoff’s music on all continents during his entire career, both in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras.
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Alexander Malofeev:2026-02-28

Forgotten Melodies

Alexander Malofeev left Moscow for Berlin in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and his debut album features works by composers who were also born in Russia but settled elsewhere: Glazunov, Glinka, Rachmaninoff and Medtner. “They all share a similar feeling of nostalgia…almost as if they are nostalgic for a very similar setting which never really existed in history. It’s like it is totally made up, almost a dream world."
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Shane van Neerden:2026-02-25

Each and All

Shane van Neerden's debut album is a real tour-de-force, comprising three of the biggest piano works of the 20th century: Ives’ Concord Sonata, Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, and Rachmaninoff’s Second Sonata. Van Neerden won the Dutch Classical Talent Award in 2024, a competition in which four laureates, selected by auditions, follow a coaching program and give 14 concerts in the most important Dutch concert halls before the winner is announced.
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Yunchan Lim:2026-02-19

J S Bach – Goldberg Variations

Youngest-ever winner of the Cliburn Competition, Yunchan Lim first heard the Goldberg Variations in Glenn Gould’s recording when he was 8 years old and was immediately impressed by the work’s grandeur and beauty. "To me, this piece is the journey of the human life told through music — Bach’s portrayal of existence itself…performing a piece like this is why I do music."
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Konrad Skolarski:2026-02-17

Chopin – Ballades, Mazurkas, Barcarolle, Polonaise-Fantasie

After graduating from the Warsaw Chopin Academy, Konrad Skolarski studied in Pavel Gililov's master class at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 2012, his debut album was highly praised by international music critics, and his renditions of Prokofiev’s and Rachmaninov’s Sonatas were compared to those by Sviatoslav Richter or Emil Gilels. Skolarski now teaches at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
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Claire Huangci:2026-02-13

Piano Heroines

This album grew from a first impression back in 2019, when Claire Huangci learned Clara Schumann’s piano concerto in celebration of her 200th birthday. "Her boldness and clarity as a young composer struck me immediately, and I was drawn to explore more of her piano oeuvre." The idea gradually expanded into a wider project around four remarkable women: Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Florence Price.
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Giorgi Gigashvili:2026-02-09

With All My Breath and All My Blood – Prokofiev Sonatas 6-8

Giorgi Gigashvili was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist 2023-2025 and an ECHO Rising Star for the season 2025/26. He was first told about the War Sonatas in 2015 by his teacher, Revaz Tavadze. "I remember the way he spoke about them, with a fire in his voice… I was too young to understand all of it, but something stirred in me… Since then, I always wanted to sacrifice myself for this music. And now, years later, I have."
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Olga Pashchenko:2026-02-04

Mozart – Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18

This is the third instalment of Olga Paschenko's historically-informed Mozart series, recorded with the small early music ensemble Il Gardellino. Pashchenko uses an Anton Walter fortepiano by Paul McNulty and a copy of a Spath & Schmahl tangent piano by Chris Maene, an extremely sensitive instrument with a sound somewhere between that of a harpsichord and a fortepiano.
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Piotr Anderszewski:2026-01-28

Brahms – Late Piano Works

Piotr Anderszewski has selected some of Brahms' last piano pieces, presenting them in a carefully curated sequence instead of performing complete collections in opus order, which is the standard procedure. "These late works by Brahms are like a testament. But what is this secretive man revealing to us here? Or rather, what is he still trying to hide?... Perhaps that is where the beauty of these scores lies."
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:2026-01-24

Schubert – Impromptus

This album was recorded before Eric Lu's great triumph at last year's Chopin Competition. "For me, the Impromptus are some of the greatest jewels in the piano literature. They are magnificent, deep pieces of music, and the very essence of Schubert.” The Financial Times' reviewer noted that Lu's Impromptus clock in significantly slower than in many other recordings, but also that "it would be hard to imagine the time better spent…"
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Nobuyuki Tsujii:2026-01-19

Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky

Together with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, "Nobu" performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. This is complemented by solo piano transcriptions of works by two of Rachmaninoff’s most important forerunners, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. “Piano transcriptions are fascinating because the arrangers are usually outstanding pianists. They know exactly what is needed to get the maximum out of the instrument.”
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Elliot Wuu:2026-01-15

Onward – Debussy, Bach, Schumann, Schubert

The four works on Wuu's debut album – Suite Bergamasque, Capriccio on the Departure of His Beloved Brother, Kinderszenen, and Wanderer Fantasy – trace a path of memory, departure, innocence, and ambition. Onward is both title and invitation, "a reminder to embrace change, to carry the past into the future with gratitude, and to keep moving forward with curiosity and hope."
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