New Piano Albums

Alfredo Perl:2024-08-20

Beethoven – Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

In 1997, Alfredo Perl performed all Beethoven piano sonatas in London, Santiago de Chile, and Moscow. At the same time, his first recording of the 32 sonatas was released. Now he has re-recorded them for this complete Beethoven project. Vol. 1 features works composed in 1791-1800, mainly in two genres central to Beethoven’s entire career, namely the variation and the sonata.
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Silver Garburg Piano Duo:2024-08-18

Schubert – Piano Duets

Silver and Garburg were well on the way to promising solo careers when they paired up first privately and then at the piano. 20 years later, they are firmly established at the top of the international piano duo scene. This album showcases some of Schubert's finest works from his final years – the F minor Fantasy, the C major Grand Duo, "Lebensstürme", and others.
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Junhee Kim:2024-08-16

Apparitions – Junhee Kim Plays Liszt

The obligatory hiatus during the pandemic led Junhee Kim to explore some of Liszt’s lesser-known piano pieces, ending up with a "personal playlist" with works from all periods of the composer's life. “I wanted to approach Liszt’s essential self – a personality that differs from all the images we have of him as a human being.”
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Anna Shelest:2024-08-14

Donna Voce, Vol. 2 – Women of Legend

The 2019 release of Donna Voce, a survey of music by women composers from the last three centuries, became Anna Shelest’s ongoing musical project that includes live performances, lectures, and videos, as well as this sequel album, featuring Fanny Mendelssohn’s monumental piano cycle Das Jahr (The Year), and Mel Bonis' Femmes de Légende (Women of Legend).
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Paul Guinery:2024-08-13

Finger Prints

Following on from two highly praised collections of light-music classics (Dicky Bird Hop and Chasing Moonbeams) for EM Records, Paul Guinery releases a third selection. Honoring the old Viennese adage of "taking serious music lightly and light music seriously", Guinery has once again quarried his extensive music archive for solo piano gems composed simply to entertain.
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Hyewon Chang:2024-08-11

Fantasie Reflections

Hyewon Chang's debut album interestingly juxtaposes fantasias by Mozart and Schumann. Fantasie Reflections ventures through Mozart's Fantasia in C Minor (K. 396), Fantasia in D Minor (K. 397), and Fantasia in C Minor (K. 475) before plunging into Schumann's impassioned Fantasie in C major, originally conceived as a 'Grand Sonata' in honor of Beethoven.
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John Noel Roberts:2024-08-09

Ives – Piano Sonata 1

The programmatic character of the First Piano Sonata by Charles Ives, according to John Kirkpatrick, has “the family together in the 1st and 5th movements; the boy is sowing his oats in the ragtimes (2nd and 4th movements; and there is parental anxiety in the third movement." It is a landmark of American piano literature, although less well known than Ives’ Concord Sonata.
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David Kaplan:2024-08-07

New Dances of the League of David

New Dances of the League of David is a suite that weaves new miniatures by leading American composers into Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6. The fifteen contemporary composers’ pieces, commissioned by David Kaplan between 2013 and 2015, cover a range of styles but are unified by their engagement with the spirit of Schumann.
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Rebeca Omordia:2024-08-04

African Pianism Vol. 2

Omordia's first album of African piano music was warmly received by critics. Hailed as a "classical music game changer", she is artistic director and founder of the world’s first-ever African Concert Series, resident series at Wigmore Hall, London. The term African Pianism comes from the composer J.H. Kwabena Nketia and refers to a style of piano music influenced by African percussion music.
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George Li:2024-08-01

Movements – Schumann, Ravel, Stravinsky

For his third Warner Classics release since his silver medal win at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, George Li has assembled a ''dance program", featuring Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka. Gramophone Magazine chose this as one of the Best New Classical Recordings of the month.
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Elizaveta Don:2024-07-30

Préludes: Anticipation

Elizaveta Don's debut album is entirely dedicated to the 'Prelude' – in addition to famous works by Debussy and Shostakovich, she also interprets Frank Martin‘s little-known cycle, which she regards as an absolute masterpiece. She sees these preludes as "a journey through uncertainty and hope, the real and surreal, the irony and tragedies of the twentieth century."
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Aniele Steininger:2024-07-28

Tradizione e libertà – Scarlatti, Katzer, Hensel

The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti's more than 550 single-movement sonatas influenced numerous composers across all eras, from his contemporary Bach, Chopin, and 21st-century artists such as Georg Katzer. The pieces by Fanny Hensel that close this album also have an Italian connection; they were all inspired and composed during her long-awaited and very formative trip to Italy in 1839-1840.
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Mishka Rushdie Momen:2024-07-25

Reformation

Mishka Rushdie Momen makes a surprising, personal, and highly enjoyable Hyperion debut, offering pearls of Renaissance keyboard music very rarely heard on a modern Steinway grand piano, bringing new perspective to the music of Byrd, Sweelinck, Gibbons and Bull. "Musically speaking, exploring this repertoire on the piano gives me a sense of encountering a palace of riches... I would love it if works from this period were to become fully integrated into the modern pianist’s canon."
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Anna Zassimova:2024-07-23

Defying Destiny

Designed as "a journey through the musical landscape of Russian destiny", Anna Zassimova's new album features Shostakovich, Medtner, and neglected works by Catoire, Mosolov, Schnittke, and Zaderatsky, all of whose works seem like parables of implacable destinies against which it seems futile to struggle, but which must be defied.
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Sandrine Erdely-Sayo:2024-07-22

Majestic Liszt

"Franz Liszt’s music has been an inspiration for me from a very young age and Majestic Liszt represents a childhood dream that immerses us in the poetry of Lamartine. It is a recording full of spirituality, love, and poetic thoughts." Sandrine Erdely-Sayo pours every ounce of her being into capturing the contemplative and song-like quality that pervades Liszt’s middle-to-late repertoire.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan:2024-07-20

Khachaturian – Ballet Transcriptions, Masquerade Suite

Mikael Ayrapetyan's recordings of music from his homeland Armenia have been met with admiration. Aram Khachaturian produced two ballet masterpieces – Spartacus and Gayane, symphonic in conception and, in the case of Gayane, marked by the use of leitmotifs. These piano arrangements maintain the texture and clarity of the original orchestral scores, preserving the essence of Khachaturian’s music.
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Freddy Kempf:2024-07-18

Matt Dibble – 24 Preludes & Fugues

Matt Dibble suddenly and tragically passed away in 2021 shortly after completing his 24 Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, a collection that showcases remarkable versatility, blending neo-Baroque, jazz, pop, and modernist influences into a deeply personal collection crafted over six years. Despite never meeting the composer, Freddy Kempf undertook the recording of Dibble's work with great enthusiasm.
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Karim Said:2024-07-15

Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Webern

Karim Said's previous album ‘Legacy’ delved into the relationships between various composers and their protoges, such as Arnold Schoenberg and his pupil Anton Webern, and Schoenberg’s role model Johannes Brahms. Now he explores the two Viennese schools and the evolution of music in Europe through works by iconic composers: Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg & Webern.
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KaJeng Wong:2024-07-13

Mostly Bach

"I'm returning to the source, to the music of two divine composers", KaJeng Wong said about his 'Mostly Bach, All Mozart' concert series. Two live albums were recorded; for the first one Wong has selected his favorites of the French Suites, English Suites and Partitas, but also a Scarlatti Sonata and the famous Petzold Minuet formerly attributed to Bach.
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Robert D Levin:2024-07-10

Mozart – Piano Concertos K503, K505, K595

This album marks the 50th anniversary of the Academy of Ancient Music and is the culmination of a monumental 30-year project. The collaboration between Christopher Hogwood and Robert Levin began in 1993 with the ambitious goal of recording Mozart's complete works for keyboard and orchestra. ‘This cycle is a central element both in Christopher Hogwood's legacy as founder and director of AAM and within my own career,’ comments Levin.
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Olga Pashchenko:2024-07-09

Mozart – Piano Concertos 20 & 23

This is part of Olga Pashchenko's decade-long project to record and tour all the Mozart concertos. Concertos 20 & 23 represent an almost dramatic, pre-Romantic theatricality and are described by Nicolas Derny as precursors of two of Mozart's greatest masterpieces: the Requiem and Le nozze di Figaro. Olga Pashchenko plays a replica of an Anton Walter fortepiano (ca. 1792) built by Paul McNulty.
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Élisabeth Pion:2024-07-08

Amadeus et l'Impératrice

Élisabeth Pion explores rarely performed works by French composer Hélène de Montgeroult, contemporary of Mozart and nicknamed “L’Impératrice” by some of her admirers. Montgeroult composed her Piano Concerto No. 1 by transcribing parts of two violin concertos by her friend Giambattista Viotti. The album also includes Mozart’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 24.
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Johannes Obermeier:2024-07-07

Brilliants

The works recorded here are like brilliants, the epitome of cut diamonds: "They show technical sophistication, as well as waltz-like, noble subjects which evoke majestic and richly decorated ballrooms before the mind’s eye. The works also mirror each other, as in the etudes of Godowsky and Chopin and in the relationship of Carnaval with my own composition Thema mit Variationen über A-S-C-H". (Johannes Obermeier)
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Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy:2024-07-05

Schubert, Desyatnikov

"On either side of the Fantasy – a major and very famous work – we wanted to place less readily accessible scores. There is the Divertissement, which…seems to be the antithesis of the Fantasy, which is such an architecturally impressive piece…Trompe-l’œil meanwhile is like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, which, smiling inscrutably, materialises (sometimes only partially) and gradually fades out at will."
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