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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Rachmaninov - Preludes & Etudes-Tableaux
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | 
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| |  | Richard Farrell - The Complete Recordings, Volume 2
Brahms: | Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119 Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2 | Chopin: | Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Mazurka No. 10 in B flat major, Op. 17 No. 1 Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' Previously unreleased Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor Previously unreleased Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key' Étude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major Previously unreleased Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind' Previously unreleased Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56 Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Previously unreleased | Debussy: | Clair de Lune | Granados: | Goyescas: Quejas ó La Maja y el Ruiseñor | Liszt: | Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera Widmung after Schumann: Liebeslied Hulanka (Drinking Song, after Chopin) | Mendelssohn: | Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat major 'Duetto' | Rachmaninov: | Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42 First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 23 No. 4 in D major First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor First ever stereo release | Schumann: | Arabesque in C major, Op. 18 |
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| |  | Nikolai Lugansky RecitalVerbier Festival 2008
Chopin: | Étude Op. 10 No. 8 in F major | Janacek: | Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street' | Liszt: | Transcendental Study, S139 No. 5 'Feux Follets' Transcendental Study, S139 No. 10 'Appassionata' Transcendental Study, S139 No. 11 'Harmonies du soir' Transcendental Study, S139 No. 12 'Chasse-neige' Sposalizio (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 1) Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 6) | Prokofiev: | Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75 - excerpts Masks, Montagues & Capulets, Friar Laurence, Mercutio, Dance of the girls with lilies & Romeo and Juliet before parting | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor |
NTSC · 16:9, DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0, FSK: all audiences Booklet notes: English Running time: 79 mins Nikolai Lugansky is one of the most talented pianists of his generation.The announcement of his concerts always fills the most prestigious venues worldwide. Each year he gives more than 100 concerts in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin (the Philharmonic), Brussels, Geneva, New York,Tokyo…His pianistic technique is distinguished, elegant, brilliant, and it is this unequal talent which makes the greatest orchestras call upon him. Nikolai Lugansky is also one of the most renowned specialists of the Russian repertoire, and he offers us here some of those gems in his first recordings for 4 years! This DVD should please his many fans. “The articulation…is breathtaking: such clarity for the turns of Prokofiev's 'Masks', such speed so well caught by the camerawork on fingers and blue-tinged keys in Liszt's 'Feux follets', such strength in the cascades of No. 10 and the glitter of Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 9.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Rachmaninov: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 3 in F sharp minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor Elegie, Op. 3 No. 1 Moment musical No. 3 in B minor, Op. 16 No. 3 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 5 in E flat minor Moment musical No. 4 in E minor, Op. 16 No. 4 Moment musical No. 5 in D flat major, Op. 16 No. 5 Moment musical No. 6 in C major, Op. 16 No. 6 Prelude Op. 23 No. 2 in B flat major Prelude Op. 23 No. 1 in F sharp minor Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Prelude Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major |
Andrei Gavrilov (piano) The Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Antonio Pompa-Baldi & Maxim Philippov (piano silver medalists) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Rachmaninov - Piano Music
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) For modern audiences the name of Sergei Rachmaninov, who was born in 1873, conjures up great memorable tunes primarily from his second piano concerto (used in the film Brief Encounter) and second symphony; he was indeed the last flowering of Russian late Romanticism. For his contemporaries, however, he was one of the greatest pianists and who was an expert in expressing moods in the briefest time scale – he was a brilliant miniaturist. He wrote 17 Etudes-Tableaux and 26 Préludes, this collection provides all of the former and 5 of the latter including the one (in C# minor), written when was only 19, which became so popular that it haunted him as he was known to the general public by that piece alone. The Second Sonata is in one movement but three distinct sections, with the slower central movement providing some respite from the turbulence of the outer movements. The Variations on a theme of Corelli was Rachmaninov’s last work for solo piano and is based on the traditional tune La follia which Corelli used in his twelfth violin sonata. The Variations are skilfully wrought as they are in the Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, the work that immediately followed it; the tune on which the Variations are made is the 24th Caprice for solo violin by the brilliant violinist-composer Paganini. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Benjamin Moser - Russian piano music
The debut CD from the winner of the 2007 Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Welte Mignon Mystery Volume 11
Vladimir Horowitz (piano) In 1986 Vladimir Horowitz was asked if his 1926 recordings made for the Welte-Mignon piano could be released. Having no faith in the technique he refused but some personal friends persuaded the great man to listen to the remarkable sound quality of the recordings and when he had done so, he immediately gave his consent. This release is of Horowitz playing those 1926 recordings. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Paderewski - A Selection of his US Victor Recordings 1914-1941
Beethoven: | Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight' - Adagio sostenuto | Chopin: | Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Mazurka No. 37 in A flat major, Op. 59 No. 2 Mazurka No. 38 in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3 Étude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor Étude Op. 25 No. 8 in D flat major Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly' | Debussy: | Préludes - Book 1: No. 12, Minstrels | Liszt: | Ständchen - Horch, horch! die Lerch (No. 9 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558) La leggierezza Etude de concert No. 2, S144 Spinnerlied aus Der fliegende Holländer S440 | Mendelssohn: | Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 4 in C major 'Spinning Song' or 'Bee's Wedding' | Paderewski: | Melody in G Op. 8 No. 3 Minuet in G major, Op. 14 No. 1 Recorded address on the observance of the golden anniversary of Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s American début | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor | Schubert: | Impromptu in B flat major, D935 No. 3 | Schumann: | Warum, Op. 12, No. 3 | Wagner: | Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 arr. by E. Schelling |
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano) Jan Paderewski enthralled the world with his artistry for more than half a century. Immensely popular as a recitalist (he played in Madison Square Garden to 20,000 people), he came to recording as late as 1911, leaving an important legacy. These recordings, mostly from the 1920s and some unpublished on 78rpm, show Paderewski as a uniquely eloquent interpreter of Beethoven, his compatriot Chopin, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Rachmaninov, Debussy and his own compositions. Whether performing in grand Romantic style, with scintillating virtuosity, or as if confiding intimate secrets, Paderewski possessed what Henry James memorably described as “exhilarating goodness”. “Systematic treatment of Paderewski's large discography is long overdue….it is bound to entice historic piano recording collectors.” Classics Today “The oddities were odd: the out-of-synch hands, the sometimes bemusing understatement. But what artistry and grace… Gorgeous tonal range too (as in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata) from the ageing master-pianist - surprisingly good sound.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 ***** “Despite (and often because of) such old-fashioned devices as the asynchronisation of hands and exaggerated rubato, there is playing of incomparable beauty on these 20 discs; many pianists today could learn much from listening to Paderewski's clarity of line, luminous tone and artful use of the pedals. All in all, much to treasure...” Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Alexander Gavryluk in Recital
Alexander Gavryluk (piano) The first VAI DVD featuring this brilliant young Russian pianist won rave reviews from the world’s press. The headline in the Gramophone Magazine review cautioned, “Fasten your seatbelts” but went on to praise his Haydn as well as the more pyrotechnical aspects of his wide-ranging program. For his second DVD release, also captured live at the Miami International Piano Festival, Gavrylyuk offers elegant Mozart and lyrical Schubert along with thunderous Rachmaninoff and Balakirev, and ending with a group of encores Recorded 8th May, 2007 at the Amaturo Theater Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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