Chopin Seong-Jin Cho plays Chopin This is a disc of greatest beauty, showcasing a pianist with a maturity way beyond his years
Piano The XX Leeds International Piano Competition, 2021: the finals Friday, September 17: Dmytro Chani: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Alim Beisembayev: Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (1934) Thomas Kelly: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 Saturday, September 18: Kaito Kobayashi: Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz 119
Piano Tedd Joselson's Companionship of Concertos Two major "war horses" here from a pianist of the uutmost musicality. We met Belgian-American pianist Tedd Joselson before on the Fantasy of Companionship [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/fantasy-of-companionship/] disc; here, in core repertorie, we get a sense of his greatness. From the first moment I heard Joselson
Piano The London Piano Festival returns! (Festival Preview) The London Piano Festival is back in October! A cause of surely great celebration for all pianophiles, this regular part of London’s calendar returns with a major premiere plus the mouth-watering combination of Charles Owen and mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy, OBE, on ‘Sounding Symmetry”. Du Sautoy, affiliated to Oxford
Piano Víkingur Olafsson plays Mozart and his Contemporaries The release of this disc chimes in well with Víkingur Olafsson's recent performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491 at the Proms with the Philarmonia under Paavo Järvi. this disc seems the natural successor. And if either you didn't
Piano Charles Ives meets Spiderman A most stimulating release. Ahonen is a fine pianist, captured in fabulous BIS sound
Bach The Art of Fugue: Filippo Gorini's fabulous project There is no doubting that Filippo Gorini is one of the great thinkers around today ...
Piano Nightlight: Cordelia William's beautifully themed recital Here, Mozart, Scriabin, Liszt, Schubert, Thomas Tomkins and Bill Evans all rub shoulders, culminating in - joy of joys! - Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133, the exquisite fruit of that composer's troubled late period
Beethoven Boundless: Beethoven for piano four hands Beethoven discs don't often include World Premiere recordings ...
Beethoven Beethoven's "Eroica": arranged Scharwenka! Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," is embedded in any musician's consciousness. It has been played regularly since the date of its composition and in the recorded era has unsurprisingly generated a cornucopia of recordings. Small surprise the market is flooded. And yet here is
Chamber Ravel and Saint-Saëns Piano Trios from the Sitkovetsky Trio A glorious coupling here from the Sitkovetsky Trio: plus an animated cartoon!
Piano Alexander Koryakin, winner of the International Competition Prize Jaén The competition itself might be a bit of a mouthful ("International Competition Prize Jaén"), but it seems to have found a worthy winner in Russian pianist Alexander Koryakin. Founded in 1958, it is Spain's oldest running annual piano competition. But the real reason for this post
Romantic Romantic Piano Encores from Kenneth Hamilton The front cover image says it all: a young girl peeping inside a treasure chest to see what lies within. And what we have here is a treasure trove of sound - beautifully shaped performances of music both well-known and awaiting discovery, each performance shaped like an individual jewel. Small
English Music Cecil Coles & Gustav Holst: Piano Music Pianist James Willshire is born to play this music; and Scottish composer Cecil Coles is a real discovery
Mozart Mozart Sonatas for Four Hands with Rados & Gerstein An absolute joy: two top musicians, beautfully attuned, both to each other and to Mozart
Beethoven Daniel Barenboim revisits the Beethoven Piano Sonatas An invaluable survey of the 32 Sonatas; Barenboim is never less than stimulating, his mind as chock-full of curiosity as ever
Orchestral Fantasy of Companionship My, how the world needs upbeat music, expertly performed, right now. And here it is!
Piano Spira, Spera: Bach transcriptions A disc of great imagination, performed with both power and beauty
