First Hand Records
112 products
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![Schumann: 1839 - Year of Piano / Alexandra Papstefanou]()
Schumann: 1839 - Year of Piano / Alexandra Papstefanou$19.99
1839 was Schumann’s most productive year of writing for solo piano, and the last year he wrote a major work for piano solo. The following year, Schumann wrote no works for solo piano, focusing a...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 12, 2021
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![Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor / Golka]()
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor / Golka$21.99
Adam Golka has created a fascinating programme focused around evening time, with the main work being the Piano Sonata No. 1 in f sharp minor. Its turbulence, languor, volatility, and repetitive ruthlessness are just some...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 05, 2018
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![Schumann: Clara / Porter, McNaught]()
Schumann: Clara / Porter, McNaught$17.99
The artists on this recording, Porter and McNaught, commissioned the English composer Sally Beamish and Scottish author Janice Galloway a work to pair with Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -Leben so they could be sung together...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 03, 2021
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![Solas / McChrystal, Wilson]()
Solas / McChrystal, Wilson$21.99
‘This is a superb programme… the sheer brilliance of the playing will keep one enthralled… Highly recommended’ (Fanfare Magazine) Solas is the Gaelic word for light and features beautiful sounds from the soprano and alto...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 19, 2020
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![Noctuelles - Ravel & Medtner / Michael Brown]()
Noctuelles - Ravel & Medtner / Michael Brown$17.99
US pianist Michael Brown has been hailed by The New York Times as ‘one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers’. His artistry is shaped by his creative voice as a pianist...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 22, 2021
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![Mirrors - 21st Century American Piano Trios / Lysander Piano Trio]()
Mirrors - 21st Century American Piano Trios / Lysander Piano Trio$17.99
Celebrating Lysander Piano Trio’s 10th anniversary in 2020, they present their FHR début with a new album featuring première recordings of new American piano trios commissioned or premièred by the ensemble. The works included on...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 08, 2021
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![Prokofiev: Cello Works / Saram, Fistoulari, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra]()
Prokofiev: Cello Works / Saram, Fistoulari, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra$17.99
All recordings featured on this album are live studio recordings made in 1971 and 1972 for radio broadcast in Holland. Written for the great cellist Rostropovich and considered one of the most difficult cello concertos,...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 04, 2021
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![Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Rabinovich]()
Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Rabinovich$19.99
The present release is the second volume of Roman Rabinovich’s complete cycle of Haydn Piano Sonatas. Rabinovich has performed throughout Europe and the United States in venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, the...
Format: CD
Release Date: July 16, 2021
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![Handel: Works for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord / Aziz, Yamamoto]()
Handel: Works for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord / Aziz, Yamamoto$21.99
This is the first time a whole album of Handel featuring viola da gamba has been published. Includes the premiere recording of Kassel Sonata No. 5 George Frideric Handel is generally regarded as one of...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 17, 2020
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![Gundula Janowitz: The Last Recital]()
Gundula Janowitz: The Last Recital$18.99
Brigitte Fassbaender said: ‘Gundula Janowitz possesses one of those voices where you have only to hear a couple of notes and you immediately know who it is. Her elegant timbre and unmistakably instrumental way of...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 01, 2017
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![Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis - Hartmann: Piano Sonata "27 April 1945" / Walker]()
Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis - Hartmann: Piano Sonata "27 April 1945" / Walker$21.99
Paul Hindemith and Karl Amadeus Hartmann were born a decade apart and died in the same month. Hindemith was the more inclusive artist while Hartmann more fully reflected the cultural concerns of his time; as...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 01, 2018
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![Croft: Seirenes / Various]()
Croft: Seirenes / Various$21.99
The sirens are ‘entwiners’ (from the Greek seiraô, to bind or entwine). In John Croft’s Seirenes, whose five movements form the centerpiece of this album, the title refers to the way in which lines twist...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 04, 2019
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![Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 / Adam Golka]()
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 / Adam Golka$17.99
Adam Golka’s third album for FHR begins a wonderful journey in which he records all of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas. This first volume, released in Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, includes one of the composer’s most...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 06, 2020
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![Beethevon: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 3 / George Malcolm Piano Trio]()
Beethevon: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 3 / George Malcolm Piano Trio$21.99
Beethoven’s Op. 1 Piano Trios are startling in their freshness and forcefulness, but there is a lot more to them than that. For one thing, they teem with witty touches, something that is brought out...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 03, 2020
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![Bach: 6 Partitas / Asako Ogawa]()
Bach: 6 Partitas / Asako Ogawa$19.99
The Six Partitas, BWV 825–830 were the first of a series of works for keyboard instruments that Bach published under the general title of Clavierübung (Keyboard Practice). They consist of a set of six harpsichord...
Format: CD
Release Date: January 01, 2021
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