New Piano Albums

Aurelia Visovan:2026-01-10

Liszt – 12 Grandes Études

Liszt often reimagined his own works, leaving behind multiple versions that reveal his evolving artistry. This is exemplified by the 12 Grandes Etudes, originating from the earlier Étude en douze exercises and later transformed into the famous Transcendental Etudes. This is the first-ever recording of the Grandes Études on a historical instrument, the 1873 Steingraeber-Liszt piano.
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Leif Ove Andsnes & Bertrand Chamayou:2026-01-06

Schubert 4 Hands

Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou first performed together at Andsnes’s Rosendal Chamber Music Festival in 2016. "Even before I met him, I already had a feeling that I was really at home with Bertrand’s way of making music", says Andsnes. “When we played the Fantasia together in Rosendal it felt very natural, and actually very emotional, because it was the last piece in the festival that year.”
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Aristo Sham:2025-12-31

Timeline

Following his victory at the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Aristo Sham has created an album tracing the evolution of Western music – a reflection on time and transformation. It begins with Bach's C minor Toccata and concludes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite, with Busoni’s transcriptions and original works serving as a bridge between eras.
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Yulianna Avdeeva:2025-12-26

Shostakovich – Preludes & Fugues Op. 87

On her third album in three years for the Pentatone label (Resilience 2023, Chopin: Voyage 2024), Yulianna Avdeeva tackles Shostakovich's monumental cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues. She also presents the completion of an alternative Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp Minor, completed by composer and Shostakovich biographer Krzysztof Meyer.
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Víkingur Ólafsson:2025-12-20

Opus 109 – Bach, Beethoven, Schubert

Víkingur Ólafsson’s new album forms a unified programme in E major and E minor, linked to his synaesthesia and his association of E with the colour green – reflected in the album cover. In his search for a post-Goldberg project, Ólafsson landed on Beethoven's Sonata op 109, examining it through the lens of Bach's influence.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard:2025-12-16

Bach – Well-Tempered Clavier II

A decade on from his acclaimed interpretation of Book 1, Pierre-Laurent Aimard releases the remaining part of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Aimard is a renowned champion of 20th-century music but has an equal dedication to the music of earlier centuries, which has resulted in recordings of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart.
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Mikhail Pletnev:2025-12-12

Chopin & Scriabin – Preludes

This album presents legendary pianist Mikhail Pletnev’s first recording for Deutsche Grammophon in almost two decades, and the company's first pure analogue (AAA) frontline release since the 1980s. Chopin’s 24 preludes take us through a kaleidoscope of musical moods and sensations. Inspired by Chopin, Scriabin’s more rarely heard set offers a fascinating prospectus of the visionary Russian composer’s early musical language.
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Tiffany Poon:2025-12-06

Nature

Inspired by Rameau’s belief that music is rooted in nature, Poon’s new album translates her own love of nature into “vivid musical expressions” through works by French composers across the centuries. "I wanted to embrace that spontaneous feeling and the nuances of nature, as vivid as the French painters who have inspired composers and myself. Let’s celebrate nature.”
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Yoav Levanon:2025-12-03

Liszt – Transcendental Etudes

"This project was never about virtuosity for its own sake. Instead, it is about what that virtuosity allows us to uncover. The deeper I went, the more I recognised the Etudes’ extraordinary expressive range…Each piece being a universe of its own, these works speak in multiple voices, as though written in several languages at once – layered, complex and endlessly revealing."
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Ophelia Gordon:2025-11-30

Kapustin – Between the Lines

"Classical pianists don't often play jazz. And jazz pianists don't usually stick to the score. Kapustin ignored both rules – and I'm glad he did," says Ophelia Gordon about the composer she has dedicated all her recent concerts to. "His music sits beautifully in the space between genres. It speaks directly to jazz musicians through its harmony and rhythm, and to classical musicians through its texture and form."
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Anna Fedorova:2025-11-27

Liberté – Ravel, Gershwin, Tailleferre, Skoryk

Anna Fedorova's album Liberté pays tribute to French and American composers whose work has transcended genres and borders. The influence of jazz plays a central role, symbolizing the fight for freedom, equality, and resistance. "Today, with the world in turmoil, the idea of freedom – whether speech, life choices, or national peace – feels more relevant than ever."
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David Fray:2025-11-24

Baroque Encores

David Fray created the show L’Enfant oublié (The Forgotten Child, 2023) with his wife, the actress and director Chiara Muti. Chiara recites her own text while David plays a selection of short 18th-century pieces at the piano. The selection of pieces on this new album flows partly from this repertoire and is a kind of personal reimagining of the show.
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Nathalia Milstein:2025-11-21

Alla Schumann

Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Robert Schumann. "At soirées among friends at Peterhof, Tchaikovsky sat at the piano and invariably played Schumann," writes Nathalia Milstein in the liner notes to her new album, which explores the connections between the two composers by juxtaposing Tchaikovsky's Six Pieces op. 19 with Schumann's great Fantasy op. 17.
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Saskia Giorgini:2025-11-19

Mozart & Shostakovich

Saskia Giorgini moves between Mozart's serene Concerto No. 12 and the circus acrobatics of Shostakovich’s concerto for Piano, trumpet, and string orchestra, ending in tragedy with Shostakovich's second Piano Sonata; music written “with his own blood”. Giorgini sees music as the most powerful means of communication, something that can nurture our empathy — "and perhaps make us feel less alone."
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Louis Lortie:2025-11-15

Chopin – Piano Works, Vol. 8

The eighth instalment of Louis Lortie's Chopin survey includes some rare chamber music, which Lortie plays together with Truls Mørk, cello. The recording covers the full chronological expanse of Chopin’s oeuvre, including both the Rondo in C minor, Op 1 – a teenage composition from Warsaw – and the composer's last published piece: the remarkable Sonata for Piano and Violoncello, Op. 65.
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Rafal Blechacz:2025-11-12

Chopin – Mazurkas

Exactly 20 years after winning the prestigious International Chopin Competition, Rafal Blechacz releases a new album on which he revives some of the works belonging to the competition’s key repertoire. His brand-new interpretation of the Mazurkas opp. 6, 17, 24, 41, 50, 56 & 63 is the starting point of an overarching project to record the complete mazurkas on DG.
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Rebeca Omordia:2025-11-09

John Ireland – Piano Works

This is an exploration of John Ireland’s distinctly English yet individualistic sound world, deeply connected to landscapes and literature. It features piano music composed over almost forty years, including the early Decorations, the substantial Piano Sonata in E minor (1920), the large-scale Sarnia: An Island Sequence, and Columbine (1951), the last piano piece he wrote.
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Martin Helmchen:2025-11-06

Schubert – Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Martin Helmchen was in his late teens when he approached a Schubert piano sonata for the first time: the friendly and melodious Sonata in A major D. 664. “I got into Schubert’s music relatively late — but was immediately completely blown away… I thought it would be nice to have the sonata that revealed Schubert to me on the first set of my complete recording."
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Lang Lang:2025-11-02

Piano Book 2

"Ever since Piano Book was released, I’ve been touched by the messages I’ve received from students, teachers, amateur pianists, and piano lovers around the world… With Piano Book 2, I want to present more music that speaks to everyone who loves the piano – whether you’re just beginning, returning after many years, or simply playing for the joy of it."
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Florian Krumpöck:2025-10-29

Schumann – Between Eusebius and Florestan

The son of a cellist and an art historian, Florian Krumpöck counted Rudolf Buchbinder, Gerhard Oppitz, and Elisabeth Leonskaja amongst his teachers at an early age. Eventually, he began to work increasingly on conducting, upon the advice of another mentor, Daniel Barenboim. Nevertheless, he still appears regularly as a pianist in major concert halls.
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Llyr Williams:2025-10-25

Schumann – Piano Works, Vol. 2

Llyr Williams' long collaboration with Signum Records has previously resulted in extensive explorations of the piano music of Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Liszt. This is the second volume of Schumann, featuring Piano Sonatas 1 and 2, Kreisleriana, and the Symphonic Etudes.
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Daniil Trifonov:2025-10-21

Tchaikovsky

This album features Tchaikovsky's bravura, four-movement Sonata op. 80, the Schumann-style Album for the Young, the rarely played 6 Morceaux in the form of Theme and Variations, and Mikhail Pletnev's arrangement of The Sleeping Beauty. According to Trifonov, these works present "a thoughtful, caring side of Tchaikovsky’s personality. We can imagine him sitting by a warm fire, lost in reminiscence." 
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Sophia Liu:2025-10-18

Chopin & Liszt

Born in Shanghai in 2008, the young Canadian pianist Sophia Liu is a student of Dang Thai Son, who won the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 1980. "I am ecstatic to be able to dedicate this album to two of the greatest virtuosos and visionaries of the Romantic era … what speaks to me above all is their almost indescribable power of transporting us to an otherworldly reality".
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Shorena Tsintsabadze:2025-10-14

Baroque Beyond

Shorena Tsintsabadze's early releases had a clear emphasis on music from the Romantic era. Then, in 2024, she released an album with with only Georgian music from the 19th and 20th centuries. Her new album represents another shift of focus: here, a selection of baroque pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin, Rameau and others lead up to Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Corelli.
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