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Bittersweet
$16.99CDAVENIR RECORDS
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Stevie Wonder: 1962 - Fingertips, Soul Bongo & Hallelujah I
$20.99CDFrémeaux
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RIMEMBRANZA
$16.99CDAVENIR RECORDS
Apr 10, 2026AVE301 -
Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Fantaisie; Morceaux de Salon; 3 No
$19.99CDNaxos
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The Cosmic Piano
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Robert Schumann: Piano Works, Vol. 2
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Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas
$21.99CDChandos
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Mozart: Piano Works, Vol. 2
$21.99CDChandos
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Mendelssohn: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3
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Shura Cherkassky: Nimbus Rediscovered Recordings, Vol. 1
$23.99CDNimbus
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Soulima Stravinsky plays Stravinsky
$23.99CDNimbus
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Alfred Cortot - The Complete French Recordings, 1942-1943
$19.99CDAPR
Sep 05, 2025APR6046
Notes On Ornette
Bittersweet
Stevie Wonder: 1962 - Fingertips, Soul Bongo & Hallelujah I
RIMEMBRANZA
Paul Plays Carla
Lover Man
The King of Gospel - The Early Years 1951-1962
Revelation
Dark Beauty
Scriabin: Vers la flamme
Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Fantaisie; Morceaux de Salon; 3 No
Schubert: Piano Music / Elisabeth Leonskaja
One of the most celebrated pianists of our time performs Schubert's posthumously published works for piano - remixed & remastered for Hybrid SACD.
The Cosmic Piano
Schumann & Schubert / Annie Fischer
Bryce Morrison, the celebrated critic and authority on piano music, described the pre-eminent Hungarian pianist as follows: ‘Annie Fischer was among the greatest and most richly comprehensive of all pianists’. The distinguished Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, notoriously critical, described her as ‘an artist imbued with a spirit of greatness and with genuine profundity’.
Robert Schumann: Piano Works, Vol. 2
Brahms: Early & Late Piano Works
Forgotten Dances
Beethoven: The Final Sonatas / Melvyn Tan
Schumann, Vol. 3
Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas
Mozart: Piano Works, Vol. 2
Mendelssohn: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3
Shura Cherkassky: Nimbus Rediscovered Recordings, Vol. 1
Adams: Piano Music
A half-speed mastered, new LP transfer of a best-selling album in the acclaimed series of minimalist piano music recorded by Jeroen van Veen for Brilliant Classics.
‘Throughout, the playing’s brilliant, confident, and sonorous’: this album of the piano output of John Adams won glowing reviews when it was first released in 2017. As an indefatigable champion of minimalist music from both sides of the Atlantic, Jeroen van Veen had recorded some of these pieces before, within his compendious ‘Minimal Piano Collection’ which became an essential acquisition for collectors of the most influential classical style in music during the last 60 years.
The 2017 remake of China Gates is even more opulent as a performance, superbly engineered to catch van Veen’s subtleties of touch at the piano, and thus eminently suitable for a high-spec vinyl transfer. ‘There’s something quite nice about encountering interpretations of these perennial Adams favourites that sound so comfortable,’ continued the Arts Fuse review: ‘a pianist enjoying himself, freely exploring the enveloping diatonicism of the music.’
Adams regards Phrygian Gates (1977) as his ‘first mature composition’, and it may seem strange that he has not since written more for solo piano than the four pieces gathered here, but as Jeroen van Veen argues in his sleeve-note essay, these pieces between them say all that needs to be said in terms of the composer’s piano style.
Mostly composed in a West Coast beach hut, the gentle flow, rolling swells and thundering breakers of Phrygian Gates add up to a half-hour, overpowering analogy for melodic waves. From the same year, China Gates distils this energy into a five-minute work of memorably concentrated stillness. Adams left off the piano for another 20 years until writing Hallelujah Junction for two pianos in 1996. Van Veen gave the Dutch premiere, and he remains an outstanding, authoritative advocate of Adams’s music.
Soulima Stravinsky plays Stravinsky
Arc III
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Isle of the Dead / Giltburg
Symphonic in scale and with great dramatic power, Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor is an underappreciated masterpiece, depicting a tremendous range of human emotions. The turbulent and brilliant Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor is heard in the 1931 revised version which clarifies textures and streamlines the work, heightening it's emotional impact. The Isle of the Dead employs Georgy Kirkor's 1957 transcription which Boris Giltburg has revised significantly. Giltburg's authority in Rachmaninoff has been universally acknowledged, with his performances termed 'characterful, sensitive and technically dazzling' by BBC Music Magazine (Naxos 8.574528).
REVIEW:
For all his technical ability and mastery of what is possible on the piano, Boris Giltburg is not a merciless technician, but a pianist who immerses himself in the music.
In the two Rachmaninoff sonatas, Giltburg draws us into a music that takes off without harshness, almost floating, and clearly tending toward Scriabin. The contrasts are made all the more exciting by the spontaneity of the playing, as are the magnificent, exciting melodic arcs with which he makes the piano sing.
The transcription of the symphonic poem ‘Isle of the Dead’ is also very successful, because Giltburg and Kirkur have obviously felt the dark and demonic secrets of this music very well. With his imaginative playing, Giltburg gives the piano a very active role, allowing it to act rather than merely reproduce impressions. The music of the Isle of the Dead shimmers in many colors and is full of dramatic power, full of life.
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Vladimir Feltsman - Journey Home
Alfred Cortot - The Complete French Recordings, 1942-1943
