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Matteo Bevilacqua, Luca Trabucco - Berio: Complete Piano Works (2023)

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Matteo Bevilacqua, Luca Trabucco - Berio: Complete Piano Works (2023)

Matteo Bevilacqua, Luca Trabucco - Berio: Complete Piano Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:14:23 | 171 / 169 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

The piano was a constant presence throughout Berio’s life, from the charming early Petite Suite to the compelling drama of the Piano Sonata, one of his last works. Berio’s profound exploration of this instrument’s timbres and possibilities is further in evidence in the Webern-like concision of Cinque variazioni and the famously virtuoso Sequenza. The obsessiveness of Rounds and the deeply personal Six Encores complete a recording that marks the 20th anniversary of Berio’s death in 2023.

Gottlieb Wallisch - 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 5: Switzerland (2023)

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Gottlieb Wallisch - 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 5: Switzerland (2023)

Gottlieb Wallisch - 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 5: Switzerland (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 67:27 | 180 / 154 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

This acclaimed edition covering the early 20th century’s fashionable wave of hot dance music from America into Europe now takes us to Switzerland. One luxury hotel owner was able to boast that ‘only here, and at the Savoy Hotel in London, can you hear real jazz’. The trend for hotel bands spread its influence to all corners of ‘light’ and ‘classical’ musical culture, and Switzerland, as a popular destination for international travel, became an epicentre for this worldwide dance fever. 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 5 presents more evocative piano rarities from this Golden Age, performed with panache and grace by Gottlieb Wallisch.

Olga Solovieva - Stanchinsky: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

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Olga Solovieva - Stanchinsky: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Olga Solovieva - Stanchinsky: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:21:50 | 242 / 189 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

This second and final volume of Olga Solovieva’s complete edition contains all of Alexey Stanchinsky’s published piano pieces composed after 1910, as well as recently discovered early works. Stanchinsky’s piano music is an unparalleled phenomenon, anticipating future musical developments and including the invention of new ‘canon-prelude’ and ‘sketch’ genres. From the dramatic Sonatas to the miniature universes captured in his Sketches, Stanchinsky’s vivid and heartfelt melodies are relatable to us all. ‘Stanchinsky’s music is like an exposed nerve, all at the limits of the senses. It reveals the innermost feelings, expressing what is in the soul.’ – Olga Solovieva

Giorgio Koukl and Virginia Rossetti - Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works, Vol. 1 (2023)

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Giorgio Koukl and Virginia Rossetti - Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works, Vol. 1 (2023)

Giorgio Koukl and Virginia Rossetti - Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:16:34 | 176 / 257 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Czech-born, Lugano-based Giorgio Koukl is best known for his performances and recordings of the piano music of Bohuslav Martinu. Koukl has recorded all the Martinu solo works, on seven CDs, and the five piano concertos and concertino, on two CDs, all for the Naxos label. But Koukl is not exactly a specialist in piano repertory: he plays many of the standards in concert and recital and has developed a repertory of rarely performed Czech solo piano music, including the 13 sonatas by Myslivecek and works by Dvorák, Smetana, Vanhal, Benda, Suk, Fibich, and Forster.

Julia Severus - Albanesi: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2023)

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Julia Severus - Albanesi: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2023)

Julia Severus - Albanesi: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:02:29 | 170 / 141 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Born in Naples, Carlo Albanesi settled in London in 1882 where he successfully balanced a career as a piano soloist with that of professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music. His playing was distinguished by delicacy and this is a notable feature of his compositions, of which the sonatas are eloquent examples of his art, large in scale and Classical in form. The Sonata in D minor marries serenity with grandiosity, while the Sonata in B flat minor is wide-ranging and romantic. Renowned for her ‘beautiful tone and deep emotion’ (American Record Guide), acclaimed pianist Julia Severus performs works by an unjustly forgotten composerpianist who was held in the highest esteem by colleagues, students and audiences alike.

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 6 (2023)

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Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 6 (2023)

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 6 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 69:23 | 210 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Selim Palmgren’s piano miniatures were extremely popular during his lifetime and were played by the great virtuosos of the day. The sixth volume in this acclaimed series presents a panorama of Palmgren’s works and includes two of his greatest and most important solo pieces – the suite Ungdom, Op. 28 laced with Impressionist and Finnish folk elements, and the Three Piano Pieces, Op. 54 which includes Raindrops and Moonlight, two of his best-known and most atmospheric works. Also included are Lisztian virtuoso studies, Hungarian evocations, and a beautiful, moving Prélude funèbre that was played at Palmgren’s own funeral. Jouni Somero, Palmgren’s greatest modern exponent, continues his historic survey of piano music by one of Finland’s most respected and admired composers.

Jean-Pierre Armengaud - Franck: Piano Rarities - Original Works & Transcriptions (2022)

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Jean-Pierre Armengaud - Franck: Piano Rarities - Original Works & Transcriptions (2022)

Jean-Pierre Armengaud - Franck: Piano Rarities - Original Works & Transcriptions (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 68:48 | 190 / 157 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Few composers have enjoyed a late flowering to compare with that of César Franck. Many of the great works in this recording were composed during his final decades and still stand today as powerful representatives of French music in the post-Franco-Prussian War period. The influence of Wagner can be heard in the poetic evocations of Les Éolides, while the magnificent Prélude, Choral et Fugue, much admired by Liszt, reinterprets well-known Baroque-era genres into an unforgettably expressive Romantic aesthetic. Widely acknowledged as one today’s great interpreters of French music, Jean-Pierre Armengaud presents an album of rarities composed for piano by Franck and arrangements of the composer’s works by distinguished musicians from the early 20th century.

Eleonor Bindman, Susan Sobolewski - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites - Transcribed for Piano Duet by Eleonor Bindman (2022)

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Eleonor Bindman, Susan Sobolewski - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites - Transcribed for Piano Duet by Eleonor Bindman (2022)

Eleonor Bindman, Susan Sobolewski - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites - Transcribed for Piano Duet by Eleonor Bindman (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:21:29 | 186 / 251 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Eleonor Bindman’s new arrangement of Bach’s orchestral suites for piano duet follows her widely admired recording of the six Brandenburg Concertos. Once again, the transcription re-imagines Bach’s writing using the modern piano, in this case a Bösendorfer. Bindman and her Duo Vivace partner, Susan Sobolewski, draw upon the suite’s dance movements to suggest how Bach might have distributed the material, ordering them for maximum contrast, and succeeding in conveying the music’s vitality and beauty in a new medium.

Gottlieb Wallisch - Weinberger: Piano Music (2022)

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Gottlieb Wallisch - Weinberger: Piano Music (2022)

Gottlieb Wallisch - Weinberger: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:16:52 | 233 / 176 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

The international success of Weinberger’s opera Schwanda the Bagpiper in 1927 has obscured a sequence of piano works written when the composer was still in his teens. The Second and Third Piano Sonatas form a commanding pair, both written in 1915 – the former autobiographical, playful and dark – the latter neo-Classical with Francophile elements. Elsewhere one can admire his use of 16th-century dance forms, his melodic gifts in the Valses nobles, and his technical command of preludes and fugues in Gravures. The three arrangements from Schwanda show his imperishable use of Bohemian dance forms.

Mikael Ayrapetyan - Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2022)

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Mikael Ayrapetyan - Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2022)

Mikael Ayrapetyan - Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 68:50 | 201 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Armenian pianist and composer Stephan Elmas was a child prodigy who met Franz Liszt and became closely acquainted with Rubinstein and Massenet. Elmas’s life was darkened by illness and the tragedy of his homeland, but his music reflects the ease and facility of his technique, harking back to the Romanticism of Chopin, Liszt and Schumann, rather than the challenging times in which he lived, and with a quality of craftsmanship that gives his music a magnetic attractiveness.
Mikael Ayrapetyan continues his acclaimed exploration of rediscovered Armenian piano repertoire with the first in this series of Elmas’s complete works for piano.

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2022)

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Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2022)

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:17:50 | 242 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

For many years the Busoni student Selim Palmgren was the most frequently performed Finnish composer after Sibelius. With a portfolio of nearly 400 piano works, his contribution to the prestige of the Nordic repertoire was significant both in scope and creative artistry. This fifth volume of Palmgren’s complete solo piano music explores oriental moods in Exotic March, Op. 46, and includes two of his best-known and most beautiful pieces, Aftonröster, Op. 47 No. 1 ("Evening Whispers") and the winter magic of Snöflingor, Op. 57 No. 2 ("Snowflakes"). The Sonatine in F major, Op. 93 marked Palmgren’s return to composition after the death of his wife five years earlier and enshrines nostalgia whilst hinting at neo-Classicism.

Christopher Williams - Barmotin: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2022)

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Christopher Williams - Barmotin: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2022)

Christopher Williams - Barmotin: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:14:08 | 193 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

A student of Rimsky-Korsakov and Balakirev and a contemporary of Stravinsky and Rachmaninov, Semyon Alexeyevich Barmotin (1877-1939) flourished in the years before the Russian Revolution. His was probably the first Ballade for solo piano written by a Russian composer and this large-scale work exemplifies his perfect control of expansive form, Lisztian virtuosic impulse and thematic variety. The two sets of Morceaux enshrine other essential elements of his art – folkloric influences, crystalline sonorities and true expressive depth. Christopher Williams’ third instalment in this acclaimed cycle features all world première recordings.

Alvaro Cendoya - Ponce: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 (2022)

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Alvaro Cendoya - Ponce: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 (2022)

Alvaro Cendoya - Ponce: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:10:19 | 236 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Not only was Manuel Ponce the leading figure in the emergence of Mexican nationalism but his music embodies a wide variety of influences. Nowhere is this more evident than in his writing for solo piano, and this album, the third of eight volumes, explores three specific facets. The first is his youthful concert studies, which are virtuosic, atmospheric and memorably evocative.

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2022)

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Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2022)

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:12:20 | 220 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Selim Palmgren studied with Busoni and developed a formidable technique, later becoming one of the leading Nordic composer-pianists of his generation. This fourth volume of Palmgren’s complete piano works reveals yet more remarkable contributions to 20th-century piano literature including one of his masterpieces, the Nocturne in Three Scenes, a compound of Impressionist and Romantic elements. His fruitful years in America are reflected by the jazz-influenced Three Fantasies and throughout one can hear examples of the beautiful folk-based music that is so much a feature of his compositions.

Gottlieb Wallisch - 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 4: France & Belgium (2022)

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Gottlieb Wallisch - 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 4: France & Belgium (2022)

Gottlieb Wallisch - 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 4: France & Belgium (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:15:06 | 234 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Gottlieb Wallisch continues his acclaimed survey of jazz-influenced piano literature. In this volume we explore le tumulte noir ("the Black craze") in the French-speaking countries after the First World War, taking us to Paris and Brussels where the mood was hot for dancing. The fashionable status of this new craze attracted writers, composers, intellectuals and artists from all over the world, with American jazz music as the latest rage in the cafes and bistros of the day. The influence of dances from overseas spread like wildfire, taking hold amongst French and Belgian composers eager to free themselves from Germanic Wagnerism while riding the wave of popularity of hit records and cinema.