Pianos have featured in house music since day one. There's just something about the combination of looping piano chords and a skipping house groove which works so well. In contemporary dance music the piano still remains intrinsically linked to house, though it was in the late '80s and '90s that the true piano house classics were created. We took it to our hearts. The emotionally charged piano riff became a defining motif of UK dance music. Producers knew they only had to alight upon a suitably uplifting three-chord piano hook in order to unleash a tide of misty nostalgia for rave's halcyon days. Ministry Of Sound are proud to present Piano House Classics.

Boris Giltburg’s personal exploration of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas reaches its penultimate volume. The Sonata No. 27, Op. 90 dates from 1814 and foreshadows Beethoven’s late period in its nuanced, expressive musical language. Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 is the first of Beethoven’s late period piano works, combining haunting poetic beauty with complex contrapuntal passages. Sonata No. 29, Op. 106, nicknamed ‘Hammerklavier’, is a monumental, symphonic work, pushing all boundaries of what had been achieved in the sonata form so far.