New Piano Albums

Marc-André Hamelin:2024-10-29

Hammerklavier – Beethoven Sonatas Op 106 & Op 2 No 3

Pianist-composer Marc-André Hamelin is well-known worldwide for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, in concert and on recordings(89 albums to date) and his "near-superhuman" technique (New York Times) with which he also takes on great works of the established repertoire – as on this Beethoven album.
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Isabel Dobarro:2024-10-27

Kaleidoscope

Isabel Dobarro’s new album proposes an interchange among women composers from distant continents, cultures, and traditions. "Kaleidoscope explores the spectrum of my musical journey… I deeply admire each of the composers selected for this album, and it was both a thrill and a delight to perform their works. Each composition has affected me profoundly".
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Daniil Trifonov:2024-10-25

My American Story – North

With My American Story – North, Daniil Trifonov retraces his immigrant’s journey in the “New World,” through American piano scores ranging from jazz and swing to modernism, minimalism, and popular soundtracks. “I did not wish to record an anthology,” he says. “These are simply pieces that I feel personally connected to. Favorites of mine that speak to me on a musical level.”
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Anna Tsybuleva:2024-10-23

Debussy – Complete Preludes

Anna Tsybuleva shot into the international spotlight in 2015 when she was crowned First Prize Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition. "When I play Debussy, I seek to capture the feeling of wind, of squinting in the shining sun, of the goosebumps from 'the sounds and fragrances floating in the evening air', with my hands."
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Jaeden Izik-Dzurko:2024-10-21

Leeds 2024 – Chopin, Ravel, Ligeti

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko won this year's Leeds Piano competition after performing Brahms' second Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in the final round. On this album are a selection of recordings taken from the previous competition rounds including Chopin's Scherzo No. 1, Ravel's Miroirs, and two Ligeti Études.
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Eloïse Bella Kohn:2024-10-18

Parisienne – Massenet, Ravel

When Eloïse Bella Kohn first discovered Massenet's almost completely forgotten Piano Concerto in 2021, she immediately felt it was high time it had a renaissance. On her first album with orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Christoph Koncz), she pairs it with one of the most celebrated works of French piano literature, Ravel's Concerto in G.
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Igor Levit:2024-10-16

Brahms

This triple album, recorded in the historic Vienna Musikverein, features Johannes Brahms' two piano concertos, performed by pianist Igor Levit and the Wiener Philharmoniker under Christian Thielemann, and the composer's late piano pieces Opp. 116–119. As a special encore Levit and Thielemann also play the four-hand Brahms Waltz op. 39/15 together.
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Roger Muraro:2024-10-14

Liszt – Années de pèlerinage

Franz Liszt was twenty-four when he began composing the Années de pèlerinage, and would continue to work on the cycle for the rest of his life. As Liszt himself declared, it aims to express – more than words, more than images – an ineffable poetry of sound. After devoting the last few years to contemporary music, Roger Muraro now gives renewed priority to the Romantic repertory.
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Shorena Tsintsabadze:2024-10-12

Georgian Project

After two albums featuring the Western heroes of Romanticism – Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff – Shorena Tsintsabadze turns to her roots in Georgia. "There is no more beautiful place in the world... With this project, I would like to present the music of Georgian composers from different eras, from the 19th century to the present."
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Claire Huangci:2024-10-09

Made in USA

American music is a melting pot of musical styles and influences. However, Claire Huangci sees a prevalent trait connecting them all – a daring spirit and freshness, a defiance of traditions, and rejuvenation in musical form and sound. It is represented here by Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Amy Beach's Variations on Balkan Themes, Barber's Piano Sonata, and Earl Wild's Etudes after Gershwin.
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Fazil Say:2024-10-07

Oiseax tristes

Oiseaux tristes takes its name from the second piece of Ravel’s Miroirs, in Fazil Say's opinion "one of the most comprehensive and interesting works in the piano repertoire." The two other works on the album are Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and Couperin's Ordre No. 21, to which Say was introduced by a harpsichordist friend in Istanbul.
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Elisabeth Leonskaja:2024-10-05

Berg, Schoenberg, Webern

Of the triumvirate of composers known as the Second Viennese School, Schoenberg wrote the most frequently for the piano. Alban Berg and Anton Webern were his most gifted pupils. Webern’s obsessive devotion to Schoenberg led him to adopt the twelve-note system even more rigorously than his mentor. Berg was more connected to the 19th century and always sounds the most Romantic of the three.
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Arseniy Gusev:2024-10-02

Musical Offering

Arseniy Gusev finished his master's program at the Yale School of Music as a composer in 2024, and now continues his studies at the Juilliard School as a pianist. His debut on the Steinway & Sons label offers a uniquely wide-ranging program of music by Bach, Dowland, Retinsky (born 1986), and Antonello da Caserta (active in the late 14th and early 15th centuries).
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Alessio Bax:2024-09-30

Forgotten Dances

On his ninth solo album on Signum Records, Alessio Bax explores works associated with dancing, from Bach to Bartók, including tangos and waltzes spanning three centuries. A great variety of styles are showcased in this program, which also features Bax's own arrangement of Ravel's La Valse.
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Joanne Polk:2024-09-28

Nostalgia – Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade, Vol. 2

Joanne Polk has spent decades performing and recording music by underrated female composers, such as Amy Beach, Louise Farrenc and Fanny Mendelssohn. In 2014, her CD titled The Flatterer, solo piano music of French Romantic composer Cécile Chaminade, was released on the Steinway & Sons Label. Here comes the long-awaited second volume.
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Mao Fujita:2024-09-25

72 Preludes

Mao Fujita traces the forward line of Preludes that started with Bach, through Chopin, to more recent times and distant territories. Nearly half a century after Chopin, Russian visionary Alexander Scriabin began work on his own set of Preludes. It was important for Fujita to complete his own “cycle” of cycles with a work from Japan, and in the 24 Preludes by Akio Yashiro, he found a perfect third chapter to his album.
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Cathy Krier:2024-09-22

Piano Poems

Throughout the ages, music and literature have always been closely linked. Composers have been inspired by poetry and stories. The program of Cathy Krier's new album explores composers’ relationship with language and how they deal with it, from Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit to Cinderella, continuing into our own time with two world premiere recordings.
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Théo Fouchenneret:2024-09-19

Fauré – Nocturnes

The music of Fauré was the source of Théo Fouchenneret's first musical emotions. He started practicing the Nocturnes at a very early age – the Third was on the program of his very first concert in Paris. Later, he won First Prize in the Gabriel Fauré International Competition in Pamiers, his hometown. "Celebrating the anniversary of his death this year is another opportunity I wouldn’t have missed for the world!"
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Théo Fouchenneret:2024-09-16

søleils blancs

"After living in Finland for a year, then travelling regularly to Sweden to work in the peace and quiet there, the path of chance – if such a thing exists – led me to Denmark, where I married a Danish musician and learned the language... This album pays tribute to the emotion I have felt in discovering a territory that has given me so much, countries so different from one another, and yet all marked by this vibrant glow."
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Grigory Sokolov:2024-09-12

Purcell & Mozart

Sokolov dedicated his entire 2022/23 season to the music of Purcell and Mozart, revealing their shared streaks of charm and melancholy. The album consists of two different live recordings – the first half is from Sokolov’s Purcell recital at the Santander International Festival in August 2023, while the Mozart half was recorded two days earlier in San Sebastián at the Quincena Music festival.
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Rikke Sandbjerg & Kristoffer Hyldig:2024-09-09

Espansiva – Works for 4 Hand Piano

These are all first recordings of Carl Nielsen’s piano duet arrangements of his orchestral works, the recent discoveries of which are a tale of luck and diligent librarianship—told by Rikke Sandberg in the booklet notes. Included are four-hand versions of the "Sinfonia Espansiva," two works from Nielsen’s Opera Saul & David, and the original sketch for the Højby Rifle Club March, composed by Nielsens’ father.
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Alexandra Ivanova:2024-09-07

Haydn – For 2 Hands and 4

Alexandra Ivanova performs Haydn on fortepianos from the composer's era, interspersing his works with short preludes (or "Impulses") of her own. In addition to two Sonatas and the great F Minor Variations, she also plays the rarely heard four-hand piece Il Maestro e lo Scolare, performing both the primo and secondo parts.
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Aline Piboule:2024-09-05

Fauré – Nocturnes and Barcarolles

Aline Piboule’s Fauré/Dutilleux disc (2017) was listed in Classica’s ‘Discographie idéale du piano’. Now she returns to Fauré, playing on a unique piano by Gaveau, built in 1929 and acquired in 1952 by the concert society Les Amis de la Musique de Pau, founded by Gonzalo Tintorer, a pianist and teacher who was a friend of Pablo Picasso, Francis Poulenc and Edgar Varèse.
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Duo Tal & Groethuysen:2024-09-04

Bach – Transcriptions for 2 Pianos

With this album, Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen follow up on their productions of the Goldberg Variations, Art of Fugue, and most recently Yaara's Tracing Bach. Arrangers are mostly from the late 19th century and the originals represent a wide range of Bach's output – organ works, other instrumental works, chorale preludes, arias, and the complete 6th Brandenburg Concerto.
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