PIANO CLASSICS

Winner of the prestigious Premio Venezia prize, Vincenzo Maltempo 'rides high among many young and gifted Italian pianists.' (Gramophone, January 2015). His recordings on Piano Classics have won...

As the probably apocryphal recipient of a kiss from the ailing and elderly Beethoven, Franz Liszt was celebrated by his contemporaries as 'the' successor, the keeper of the flame, no less than...

Bernstein's piano output reflects the various strands of his multifaceted personality, in works as different as Touches (1981) and, at the other end of the scale, his often tender, sentimental...

Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was a virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher whose class comprised the likes of Simon Barere, Maria Grinberg and Vladimir Horowitz. But he was also a composer of an...

A composer-pianist after his time, Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) continued to write music in the post-Romantic Russian tradition well into the 20th century: based on Liszt and Chopin, influenced by...

Brahms / Gulyak,Sofya Handel Variations - 2 Rhapsodies - Fantasien Op. CD

Brahms / Kopachevsky Piano Sonatas 3 CD

On his third album for Piano Classics Alexander Gavrylyuk chose works close to his heart, in which his unique gifts may equally shine: his amazing technical mastery and his deep emotional involvement...

Crowning the very summit of the piano concerto literature are the two examples by Brahms, posing as stern a test of technique, temperament and poetic feeling to the interpreter now as they did when...

Chopin / Fedorova / Kloeckner Franck & Chopin: Cello Sonatas CD

Chopin / Osokins Chopin: Later Works Op 57-61 CD1. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57 2. I. Allegro Maestoso 3. II. Scherzo, Molto Vivace 4. III. Largo 5. IV. Finale, Presto Non Tanto 6. No. 1 in a...

Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva (b. 1985) graduated with the distinction from Moscow State Conservatory in 2012. A winner of ten international piano competitions, and an increasingly seasoned and...