Prokofiev Piano Sonatas Best Recording - April 2024

Sviatoslav Richter: Complete Album Collection

Sony Classical celebrates the art of Sviatoslav Richter, one of the 20th century s greatest pianists, with the first-ever release of his complete Columbia Masterworks and RCA Victor live and studio recordings, Sviatoslav Richter The Complete Album Collection, an 18-CD original jacket box set. Richter was already a legend in his native Soviet Union when he came to the West for the first time in 1960. His American tour that year not only consolidated the pianist s international reputation, but also resulted in the memorable recordings in this collection, including his legendary five October 1960... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NFLVFFK
• UPC: 797647510831
• ASIN: B00NFLVFFK
• Brand: MASTERWORKS
• Manufacturer: Sony Masterworks

Pianist of the Century ~ Sviatoslav Richter

Few classical pianists demonstrated equal mastery of Bach and 20th-century works like Richter did, and few recordings captured his singular brilliance like the nine Deutsche Grammophon LPs he recorded from 1956-62. Here they all are (and this is a fabulous price for all this music), featuring Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 ; Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 ; Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 ; Schumann's Piano Concerto ; Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 , plus pieces by Chopin, Debussy, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and more!

• ASIN: B001V7R09A
• UPC: 028947781226
• ASIN: B001V7R09A
• Brand: RICHTER,SVIATOSLAV
• Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon

The Seattle Recital (Beethoven/Chopin/Debussy/Prokofiev)

Previously-unreleased recording of Emil Gilels, the 100th anniversary of whose birth falls October 2016, captured live in an acclaimed 1964 Seattle recital.On 6 December 1964 the great Emil Gilels gave a tempestuously acclaimed recital at the Seattle Opera. The concert was recorded live for private purposes but with professional equipment. With the exception of a single work, this recital has never before been made available to the general public and is now being released for the first time!Between 1955 and 1983 Emil Gilels toured North America twelve times. Unlike his Soviet colleague and riv... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01H9HK40C
• UPC: 028947962885
• ASIN: B01H9HK40C
• Brand: Deutsche Grammophon
• Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon

Emil Gilels - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection

Among the first Soviet musicians allowed to travel in the West, Emil Gilels s American debut on October 3, 1955, with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra caused a sensation. Later that month, Gilels recorded his best-selling collaboration with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky s First Piano Concerto. Subsequent American tours between 1958 and 1965 yielded a small yet select group of recordings for the two leading American classical labels, RCA and Columbia, including the Brahms Second Concerto with Reiner/Chicago, and the Chopin First Concerto with Ormand... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01DDDA37U
• UPC: 888751773127
• ASIN: B01DDDA37U
• Brand: Sony Classics
• Manufacturer: Sony Classical

Schumann - Liszt - Janácek - Brahms

In 2009, at the age of 19, Haochen Zhang became one of the youngest musicians ever to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Since then he has had a busy concert schedule, primarily in his native China and in the U.S.A. but also in Europe where he made his début at the BBC Proms in 2014. Recording has been less of a priority for Zhang, and it is only now that he releases his first studio album, recorded at the Reitstadel, the well-known audiophile venue in Neumarkt in Germany. For this recital, Haochen Zhang has devised a programme made up of works that he feels particularly clo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N5M5LFK
• ASIN: B01N5M5LFK
• Brand: Bis
• Manufacturer: BIS Records

Alexis Weissenberg - The Complete RCA Album Collection

Alexis Weissenberg The Complete RCA Album Collection brings together all of the pianist s 1967/70 RCA Victor sessions for the first time in one place and remastered from the original analog sources, along with his 1949 recorded début that first appeared as a ten-inch Columbia Masterworks LP. The recordings include Chopin s Scherzi Nos. 1 and 2 and Sonata No. 3 in B minor, three Haydn Sonatas, a Debussy recital, Bartók s Piano Concerto No. 2, plus interpretations of Rachmaninoff s complete Préludes and Piano Concerto No. 3 that became modern-day reference versions. The booklet contains full ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HMAH3Z0
• UPC: 889853015023
• ASIN: B01HMAH3Z0
• Brand: Sony Classics
• Manufacturer: Sony Classical

Etudes / Piano Sonata / Sym Variations for Piano

URANIA RM 11.910

• ASIN: B0028ER4KA
• UPC: 675754014247
• ASIN: B0028ER4KA
• Manufacturer: Urania

Piano Transcriptions / Arcadi Volodos

Face it, anyone who can play Horowitz's fabled transcriptions or Cziffra's madcap interlocking octaves Flight of the Bumblebee will get attention. What is most impressive, though, is that Arcadi Volodos replicates the notes, but not the performances. His tempos and voicings are completely different, and just as valid, if not quite as coruscating as the originals. In other words, Volodos makes this repertoire his own, as well as the other selections on this well-recorded debut outing. --Jed Distler

• ASIN: B0000029T8
• UPC: 074646269121
• ASIN: B0000029T8
• Manufacturer: Sony Classical

Best of 25 Piano Favorites

Classical Masterpiec ~ The Best Of 25 Piano Favorites

• ASIN: B00005KB83
• UPC: 056775352127
• ASIN: B00005KB83
• Manufacturer: Madacy Records

Prokofiev: Music For Violin And Piano

• ASIN: B01LWZ553Z
• UPC: 888295458252
• ASIN: B01LWZ553Z
• Manufacturer: CD Baby

Prokofiev / Scriabin / Shostakovich: Complete Piano Sonatas

• ASIN: B0000UX5F2
• UPC: 822165613723
• ASIN: B0000UX5F2
• Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics

Eliesha Nelson Plays Russian Viola Sonatas

• ASIN: B0054QZ8H0
• UPC: 053479213624
• ASIN: B0054QZ8H0
• Manufacturer: Sono Luminus

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer

Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev’s work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer’s nine piano sonatas. These cherished works, composed between 1910 and 1951, are today considered an indispensable part of the repertoire of every serious concert pianist.  The book, written with a deep appreciation of Prokofiev’s style and creativity, looks at the sonatas within the context of Prokofiev’s complete oeuvre.  For each sonata, Berm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300114907
• ASIN: 0300114907
• ISBN: 9780300114904
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

Beethoven - Complete Piano Sonatas : Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2103

The 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven as previously published by Schirmer, in one volume. With an introduction by Theodore Baker and preface by Sigmund

• UPC: 43295944

Beethoven - Five Favorite Piano Sonatas : Pathetique * Moonlight * the Tempest * Les Adieux * Op. 2, No. 1

Classical/Opera Piano Solos

• UPC: 666903109

Sonatas - Book 1 : Piano Solo

(Piano Collection). Contains Piano Sonatas

• UPC: 4720557
• Rating: 5.0

Sonata Album for the Piano - Book 2: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 340 (Paperback)

9780634069550

• UPC: 26048539

Mozart -- Selected Intermediate to Early Advanced Piano Sonata Movements (Paperback)

9780739030530

• UPC: 10217774

Ludvig Van Beethoven: Favorite Piano Works : 10 Sonatas, 3 Variations, 4 Sonatinas, 10 Bagatelles, 8 Other Pieces

Edited and fingered variously by Carl Krebs, Sigmund Lebert, Hans von B'ulow or William

• UPC: 10155967

The Complete Piano Sonatas, Series II

Series II contains Medtner's final seven sonatas: Sonate-Ballade, Sonata in A Minor, Sonata-Reminiscenza, Sonata tragica, Sonata romantica, Sonata minacciosa, and Sonate-Idylle. Bonus selections include "Canzona matinata," "Canzona seranata," and "Alla

• UPC: 30175558

The Complete Piano Sonatas, Series I

Seven rare scores by a long-neglected 20th-century master include Sonata in F Minor; three sonatas of Sonatentriade; Sonata in G Minor; M�rchen-Sonate; and Sonata in E Minor ("Night Wind"). Authoritative

• UPC: 29271230

Sonatas - Book 2 : Piano Solo

(Piano Collection). Contents: Sonata, Op. 49, No. 1 * Sonata, Op. 53 * Sonata, Op. 57 * Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3 * Sonata, Op. 49, No. 2 * Sonata, Op. 79 * Sonata in

• UPC: 4720558

Sonata Album for the Piano - Book 1 : Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 329 Piano Solo

9780793525775

• UPC: 25239489