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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Ingolf Wunder: 300
Ingolf Wunder returns with a unique follow-up, 300, three centuries of piano styles – from Scarlatti to Morricone. Ingolf Wunder adores fun, melodic pieces that demand exceptional flair and virtuosity – 300 will attract all piano fans. He links pieces by Liszt, Rachmaninov, and Scriabin (among others) to Horowitz’s own landmark homage, Danse excentrique and extends the lineage to late 20th-century pieces such as his own arrangement of hits like John Williams’s "Star Wars (theme)" – and Morricone’s "Playing Love" from the film, The Legend of 1900. The perfect follow-up to Chopin by presenting another facet of this exceptional pianist, who was the audience favourite at the 2010 Chopin Competition – his Deutsche Grammophon debut Chopin album was acclaimed worldwide: ". . . an extremely elegant and polished affair" (Los Angeles Times) | 
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| |  | Valentina Lisitsa: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven: | Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight' | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 | Liszt: | Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3 Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 6 in A minor | Scriabin: | Deux poèmes, Op. 32 Étude Op. 42 No. 3 in F sharp major 'La Moustique' |
Valentina Lisitsa (piano) The DVD recording of Valentina’s Lisitsa’s 19th of June 2012 Royal Albert Hall concert. With more than 43 million views and over 52,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, the young pianist is not only one of the fastest-rising stars of the international concert scene but probably the single most-watched classical musician, having rapidly overtaken long-established giants of the piano world in terms of global online viewing figures. “there's an admirable lightness of touch and appreciation of rhythmic flow to her "Für Elise", and her negotiation of Liszt's "Un Sospiro" is captivating.” The Independent, 7th July 2012 **** “ This recital disc of short piano pops proves Lisitsa's technical skill rather than the potential depth or reach of her musicality. She opens, in reckless mood, with Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Minor, then settles into an elegant Für Elise” The Observer, 9th July 2012 “Critics love to trash this kind of 'semi-pops' programme, yet Lisitsa often plays beautifully. While her opening salvo, Rachmaninovs G minor Prelude, is rather rushed and glib, the pianist quickly settles down to a direct and eloquent Fur Elise, followed by a breathtakingly brisk, imaginatively shaded La campanella.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Valentina Lisitsa: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven: | Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight' | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 | Liszt: | Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3 Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 No. 6 in A minor | Scriabin: | Deux poèmes, Op. 32 Étude Op. 42 No. 3 in F sharp major 'La Moustique' |
Valentina Lisitsa (piano) Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Valentina began playing the piano at the age of three and performed her first solo recital just one year later. She has won prestigious awards for her playing internationally, including the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition (together with her husband Alexei Kuznetsoff). Valentina Lisitsa has already performed at major international venues including Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York and the Vienna Musikverein, and in countries as far apart as the Netherlands and Brazil. She has played with renowned orchestras including Chicago Symphony, Seattle Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony, collaborating with conductors Manfred Honeck, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, among others. Upcoming performances are confirmed with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich with Münchner Symphoniker and recitals at the Victoria Hall in Geneva and Philharmonie in Berlin. With more than 43 million views and over 52,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, the young pianist is not only one of the fastest-rising stars of the international concert scene but probably the single most-watched classical musician, having rapidly overtaken long-established giants of the piano world in terms of global online viewing figures. “Lisitsa emerges as a hugely confident and spontaneous performer. There's grace in her turns of phrase and relish in her sense of rhetoric...Sometimes, though, a downside appears when loud passages threaten to career a tad out of control and miss their point.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 *** “there's an admirable lightness of touch and appreciation of rhythmic flow to her "Für Elise", and her negotiation of Liszt's "Un Sospiro" is captivating.” The Independent, 7th July 2012 **** “This recital disc of short piano pops proves Lisitsa's technical skill rather than the potential depth or reach of her musicality. She opens, in reckless mood, with Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Minor, then settles into an elegant Für Elise” The Observer, 9th July 2012 “genuine gifts for lyricism and dazzling display...those musical gifts quickly hit the ears on this closely recorded CD.... Track three is Liszt’s La campanella, intelligently shaped, its bell sounds glittering as rarely before...Lisitsa tends to play with the lights fully on, with not enough shading in the wide expanse between loud and quiet. This gets rather tiring...But at the moment there is only one Valentina Lisitsa.” The Times, 13th July 2012 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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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 (from Suite Bergamasque) | Granados: | Goyescas: Quejas ó La Maja y el Ruiseñor | Liszt: | Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera Widmung S566 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: | Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 |
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| |  | Unknown Rachmaninoff
For his fourth album for Sony BMG Russian pianist Denis Matsuev has chosen to record an album of Rachmaninoff’s most virtuosic and dynamic works for piano. The album also contains the world premiere recording of two hitherto unknown pieces by Rachmaninoff, recently rediscovered by the Rachmaninoff Foundation: the Fugue in D minor and the Suite for Orchestra in D minor in a version Rachmaninoff created for piano. The recording itself was made in Rachmaninoff’s summer residence in Switzerland, where he composed many of his major works, using the composer’s own piano. The project was initiated and supported by the Rachmaninoff Foundation and Alexander Rachmaninoff in particular. “At least two outstanding recordings of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Sonata have come my way in recent years (from Yevgeny Sudbin on BIS, and Simon Trpceski on EMI)… Yet Denis Matsuev's performance… is a formidable achievement, demonstrating breathtaking control of the complex polyphonic writing, while negotiating the ebb and flow of the musical argument with great purpose and direction.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 ***** “Denis Matsuev is a virtuoso in the grandest of grand Russian traditions who returns us to the great days of Emil Gilels. He possesses the sort of technique which begins where others end, and here in Rachmaninov his playing is truly 'stewed in Russian juices'.
His recital, entitled 'Unknown Rachmaninov', is in fact a mix of the familiar and newly discovered.
And while the piano version of the D minor orchestral Suite is hardly characteristic, let alone vintage Rachmaninov, it is played up to the hilt by Matsuev. The D minor Fugue is a more convincing discovery with its prophecy of the E minor Moment musicaux demanding and receiving a red-hot virtuosity. Again, Matsuev may have you longing for the fuller 1913 version of the Second Sonata but his playing blazes with such towering strength and conviction that he leaves you with virtually no grounds for complaint.
His pace in the 'Red Riding Hood' A minor Etude-tableau is hair-raising and the earlier Etude in the same key is given with a scale and romantic turbulence that declare the pianist's nationality in every bar. The G minor Prelude can scarcely have been played more stunningly in its entire history. This excellently recorded disc presents the most trenchant and commanding Rachmaninov recital in years.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Ever since his triumph in the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition, Denis Matsuev's name has inspired awe and amazement in musical circles. Here is a virtuosos in the grandest of grand Russian traditions who returns us to the great days of Emil Gilels… this excellently recorded disc presents the most trenchant and commanding Rachmaninov recital I have heard in years.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Itzhak Perlman - Violin Encores
Achron, J: | Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 | Albéniz: | Sevilla (from Suite Española, Op. 47) | Arensky: | Serenade for Violin & Piano, Op. 30 No. 2 | Bazzini: | La Ronde des lutins, Op. 25 | Castelnuovo-Tedesco: | Tango | Debussy: | La plus que lente Petite Suite: Menuet Golliwog's Cakewalk (from Children's Corner) Petite Suite: En bateau | Drigo: | Valse Bluette for Viola & Piano | Elgar: | Salut d'amour, Op. 12 | Fauré: | Berceuse, Op. 16 | Foster, S: | I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair | Gershwin: | It Ain't Necessarily So (from Porgy and Bess) Preludes (3) | Godowsky: | Triakontameron No. 11 'Alt Wien' | Grasse, E: | Wellenspiel (Waves at Play) | Halffter, E: | Danza de la gitana | Mendelssohn: | Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 1 in E major 'Sweet Remembrance' | Paganini: | Sonata for violin & guitar in E minor, Op. 3 No. 6 | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Melody, Op. 21 No. 9 How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7 Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 | Rameau: | Rigaudon | Ravel: | Valses nobles et sentimentales No. 6 in C major Valses nobles et sentimentales No. 7 in A minor | Rimsky Korsakov: | Flight of the Bumble Bee | Sarasate: | Danza Española No. 4: Jota Navarra, Op. 22, No. 2 Danza Española No. 2: Habanera, Op. 21, No. 2 Danza Española No. 5: Playera Op. 23 No. 1 | Schumann: | The Prophet Bird Op. 82 No. 7 | Stravinsky: | Chanson Russe | Suk: | Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 17: Nos. 3 & 4 | Taeye: | Humoresque | Tchaikovsky: | Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42: Mélodie in E flat major | trad.: | Deep River | Vale, F: | Prelude No. 15 'Ao pé da fogueira' | Wieniawski: | Polonaise brilliante No. 2 in A major, Op. 21 Mazurka in G major, Op. 19 No. 1 'Obertas' Polonaise brilliante No. 1 in D major, Op. 4 Scherzo-Tarantelle in G minor, Op. 16 |
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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 |
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| |  | Rachmaninov: Piano Works
This CD is the third release from Challenge Classics to showcase the talents of the Russian pianist Alexei Volodin. It features a wide ranging selection of pieces by his compatriot Sergei Rachmaninov, including the “Variations on a theme of Corelli”, 5 of his Preludes, the 2nd Sonata (second version), and four of his Etudes-Tableaux. Alexei Volodin was born in St. Petersburg in 1977, and began taking piano lessons there at the age of nine. A year later he moved to Moscow, and in 1994 he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatoire. During 2001 and 2002 he studied at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation in Como. He has won several prizes at different international competitions, including First Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich in 2003. Alexei Volodin’s debut recording for Challenge Classics (CC72354), released in March 2010, was devoted to the music Chopin, and his second CD which was issued in May 2011 (CC72508) brought together works by Schumann, Ravel, and Scriabin. “He plays the Corelli Variations, Op 42, and the revised, shortened version of the Second Piano Sonata, Op 36, with impressive precision and power, the textures kept mostly clean. Yet in calmer moments one senses an underlying urge for the busy stuff, rather than an exploration of a more interior world.” Sunday Times, 28th April 2013 |
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| |  | The Great Russian Pianists
Glazunov: | Trois Morceaux, Op. 49: Gavotte Sergei Prokofiev (piano) | Leschetitzky: | Two Skylarks, Op. 2 No. 1 Theodore Leschetitzky (piano) Mazurka, Op. 24 Theodore Leschetitzky (piano) | Lyapunov: | Elegy on the Death of Liszt, Op. 11 Sergei Liapunov (piano) | Moszkowski: | Polonaise in D, Op. 17 Leopold Godowsky (piano) Malagueña, Op. 49, No. 1 Rudolph Ganz (piano) Serenata in D major, Op. 15 No. 1 Ignaz Friedman (piano) | Prokofiev: | Prelude in C major, Op. 12 No. 7 Sergei Prokofiev (piano) Pieces (10), Op. 12: No. 3 - Rigadon Sergei Prokofiev (piano) Scherzo, Op. 12, No. 10 Sergei Prokofiev (piano) The Love for Three Oranges: Intermezzo Sergei Prokofiev (piano) Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31 Sergei Prokofiev (piano) | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 32 No. 8 in A minor Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Prelude Op. 32 No. 10 in B minor Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Polka de V.R. Shura Cherkassky (piano) | Sapellnikoff: | Dance of the Elves, Op. 3 Ossip Gabrilowitsch (piano) | Scriabin: | Prelude, Op. 11 No. 1 in C major Alexander Scriabin (piano) Prelude, Op. 11 No. 13 in G flat major Alexander Scriabin (piano) Prelude, Op. 11 No. 2 in A minor Alexander Scriabin (piano) | Tchaikovsky: | The Nutcracker: Dance of the Mirlitons Percy Grainger (piano) Song without words, Op. 2 No. 2 Shura Cherkassky (piano) |
This Dal Segno releases features a collection of some of the greatest Russian pianists playing Russian compositions. Prokofiev and Scriabin are featured playing their own compositions in recordings taken from original piano rolls but replicated in 1992 on a new concert grand piano. |
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| |  | Sviatoslav Richter plays Rachmaninov and Prokofiev
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