First Hand Records

  • Fantasy / Lark, Yang

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    American violinist Tessa Lark has chosen a selection of some of her most cherished Fantasies and Rhapsodies for violin for her début solo album ‘Fantasy’. Conjuring up a world of make believe and freedom, the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 27, 2019

  • Irakere - Live at Ronnie Scott's Birmingham

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    The GRAMMY-� award winning band Irakere are probably the most creative, influential performers from Cuba and pioneers of the modern Timba style of Cuban music. This album is the first issue on CD of the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 18, 2014

  • The 1980 Ambassador Auditorium Recital / Egorov

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    For the first time, Youri Egorov’s 1980 Ambassador Auditorium Recital is available on CD. Master pianist Youri Egorov gave his final concert performances at the age of 33, knowing that he was fatally ill and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 29, 2016

  • Bach: The Art of Fugue / Nikolayeva

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    One of the greatest Bach players of her generation, Russian pianist Tatyana Nikolayeva delivers this incredible live performance just a few months before her death. This recording will be published for the first time on...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 06, 2020

  • Brahms & Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

    $21.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 05, 2014

  • History of the Salon – Morceaux caractéristiques (1823–1913)

    $21.99

    Although the word salon derives from a room in a domestic dwelling (In 1836, Robert Schumann referred to Salonmusik (a term he incidentally coined) as a 'combination of sentiment and piano passage'), it also came...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 10, 2020

  • Bavardage / The Flautadors

    $21.99

    The Flautadors recorder quartet are the UK’s leading recorder ensemble and celebrate 20 years of making music together with a recording of some of their most popular contemporary music. ‘bavardage’, their 5th album and 2nd...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 05, 2018

  • Fat Doggie

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    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 18, 2014

  • COMPLETE HMV RECORDINGS

    $32.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 23, 2009

  • The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital

    $21.99

    This beautiful new release is a live recording of Tatyana Nikolayeva’s 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital, and this is the first time the recording from that even has ever been published. Russian pianist Tatyana Nikolayeva...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 30, 2016

  • Oblivion: Latin American Music for Oboe & Guitar

    $21.99

    Since their first concert together in 2011, Polish oboist Monika Dawidek and English guitarist Russell Poyner have captivated audiences with their energy, vitality and charming interaction on stage. In this, their debut album, the German-based...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 03, 2015

  • The Hidden Violin

    $21.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 06, 2014

  • Life Suite

    $21.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 01, 2014

  • ORCHESTRAL WORKS

    $21.99

    This historical release from First Hand features two major English orchestras and two acclaimed conductors in stereo recordings from the late 1950s, offered here for the first time on CD and for the first time...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 30, 2012

  • J.S. Bach: The French Suites

    $26.99

    Another outstanding performance/recording of J.S. Bach by Papastefanou, this her second album for FHR, in another classic set of keyboard works by the composer, The French Suites. Papastefanou, Greece's leading pianist, is now regarded worldwide...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 15, 2019

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