New Piano Albums

Beatrice Rana:2025-04-07

Bach – Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052–56

Playing the Goldberg Variations a few years ago was a milestone in Beatrice Rana's life as a musician, and made her even keener to play Bach. She has a long-standing relationship with the concertos, especially the one in F minor, which she played at the age of nine for her first public performance with orchestra. "I have fond memories of rehearsing it at home, with my father playing the piano reduction of the orchestra part".
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Jan Lisiecki:2025-04-05

Preludes

With his new album, Jan Lisiecki seeks to take “the audience on a musical expedition” in order to "showcase the broad possibilities of the humble Prelude”. He includes Chopin's complete Preludes, but also presents a broad spectrum of other composers, from Bach to Górecki, revealing how the genre developed over three centuries.
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Clément Lefebvre:2025-04-02

Scriabin – Con Eleganza

At the centre of Clément Lefebvre's all-Scriabin recital are the eight Impromptus, half an hour of music that bears witness to the composer's taste for refinement and the very special elegance of his music. "Lighter and more intimate, they contrast with the density and narrative force of the Piano Sonata no.3 and the Fantasie. I remain astonished that they are so rarely performed today, let alone recorded."
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Natalia Sokolovskaya:2025-03-30

Rameau – Complete Piano Music

Natalia Sokolovskaya's debut recording for the OnClassical Label was a portrait of the Czech 20th-century composer Leos Janácek. After continuing with a couple of Chopin albums, she now moves on to the early music domain. The last few months have seen her releasing Rameau's various Suites for solo piano one at a time – now they are all available in one album.
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Jeneba Kanneh-Mason:2025-03-25

Fantasie – Chopin, Scriabin, Florence Price and others

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason’s solo debut marks her place within a remarkable musical family – she is the fifth of the seven hugely talented Kanneh-Mason siblings. “I feel very connected to these pieces. They all mean a lot to me and by gathering them here for my début album, I am revealing not only more of myself as a musician but also the core of what moves me musically.”
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Marina Baranova:2025-03-23

Salon de Ravel

With Salon de Ravel, Ukrainian pianist and composer Marina Baranova takes the listener on a musical journey to the sources of Ravel's inspiration – original works by Ravel are combined with works by other composers (Chabrier, Haydn, Borodin, Couperin, Fauré, Grieg) that inspired him. She also contributes to the album with one of her own pieces, "a congratulation to Ravel on his birthday, but also an expression of my deep admiration for his art."
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Mitra Kotte:2025-03-21

Herstory

When Mitra Kotte received an invitation to play a recital with only female composers, she had never before played a solo piece written by a woman. Soon after, she was shocked by the realization that there were so many outstanding composers whom she had never heard of! In the end, she decided to record some of this music for her debut album, presenting a wide-ranging selection of pieces written between 1837 and 1937
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Luca Buratto:2025-03-19

Ravel – Piano Works, Vol. 1

Since winning the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition, Luca Buratto has performed in prestigious venues on three continents. His interpretations of Robert Schumann have earned him particular praise – his debut album on Hyperion (2017) was an all-Schumann recital. For the 2025 anniversary, he recorded Ravel's complete piano music. The first installment features Gaspard de la nuit, Miroirs, and Le tombeau de Couperin.
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Anna Khomichko:2025-03-17

Beginnings

Anna Khomichko performs three piano concertos from the late 1700s. Mozart was 17 years old when he composed his first standalone piano concerto, while Beethoven was just 14. Only a single piano concerto by Clementi has survived, likely composed toward the end of the 1780s. In a noteworthy way, this work completes the picture of a genre that was still young at the time.
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Kun-Woo Paik:2025-03-15

Mozart – Piano Works 3

The third album in Kun-Woo Paik's Mozart trilogy is centered around the Fantasia in C minor, one of the composer’s most dramatic and profound works, and also includes the A minor Rondo, which Paik, 78, said was the first Mozart piece he ever encountered. The album cover designs were selected through a public contest for elementary school students.
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Fülöp Ránki:2025-03-13

Liszt – Legends, Prayers, Poems, Waltzes

Fülöp Ránki was born into a pianist family; he has performed works for three pianos with his mother, Edit Klukon, and father, Dezsö Ránki, including concertos by Bach and Mozart. This is his first solo album on Hungaroton, an all-Liszt recital with many of the composer's most poetical works, such as the 2 Legends and 6 Consolations.
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Albert Cano Smit:2025-03-10

Bach – The Art of Fugue

"I remember hearing the opening notes of the piece for the first time, and being captivated by the impression that an entire universe was slowly being revealed through the work. Without immediately understanding the degree of complexity, the underlying layers of meaning... I was deeply moved by the music, and I believe every listener can be."
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet:2025-03-07

Khachaturian

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel take on Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto. Once famous in the hands of virtuosi such as William Kapell and Oscar Levant, it has been rarely performed and recorded in recent years. The concerto is coupled with a selection of Khachaturian's shorter works for solo piano.
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Seong-Jin Cho:2025-03-04

Ravel – Piano Concertos

10 years after his first prize victory in the Chopin Competition, Seong-Jin Cho has prepared a monumentous body of work for the 150th birthday anniversary of Maurice Ravel. It's being released in three installments over three months, and includes the complete solo piano works, the piano concertos, and a “Ravel Complete” box set with bonus material and previously unreleased recordings.
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Lise de la Salle:2025-02-28

Phantasmagoria – Liszt

Liszt has occupied a special place in the repertoire of Lise de la Salle. Her second solo recording (2005) was a very successful Liszt recital, and a sequel in 2011 confirmed her status as a great interpreter of his works. On this new album, she tackles what many consider the composer's greatest masterpiece, the Piano Sonata in B minor, paired with the Réminiscences de Don Juan (a fantasy on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni).
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Alice Sara Ott:2025-02-25

Field – Complete Nocturnes

Field's music was not part of Alice Sarah Ott's musical education, but when she started listening to his Nocturnes, she found them strangely familiar; "Some of them had the charm and simplicity of a Mozart Andante, while others had the form and mischievous humor of early Beethoven. And then there were the ones where, through their improvisatory embellishments and sparkling scales, but also the bittersweet melancholy, one could glimpse the future style of Chopin.
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Yunjie Chen:2025-02-21

Liszt – Études d'exécution transcendante

Liszt's Transcendental Etudes are often referred to as the Mount Everest of piano studies and some of the most challenging pieces ever written for piano. Yunjie Chen, one of the most prominent Chinese pianists of his generation and a professor at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, has always wanted to add a fresh perspective: "To me, this music is simply great poetry – a set of musical miniatures that are intricate, delicate, and poetic."
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Robert Markham:2025-02-18

Franz Xaver Mozart – Sonata, Variations, Fantasy

Franz Xaver Mozart, the youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus, inevitably laboured under the weight of huge expectation. His largest work for solo piano, the Piano Sonata in G major, the exuberant Fantasy on a Russian Song and a Krakowiak, the Variations on a Russian Theme, and the Variations on his father’s Don Giovanni all show a confident composer with great gifts for elaboration and playfulness.
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Maria Lettberg:2025-02-15

Europolis

Europolis is a look at our European Union from a historical-musical perspective. Lettberg has tried to select the most outstanding piece for each EU country, regardless of the period or style. All the major styles of classical music are represented: from Renaissance to Baroque music and Viennese Classicism, to Romanticism, Late Romanticism, Impressionism, 20th-century music, minimalism and new age music.
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Alexander Boyd:2025-02-12

Chopin – Ballades, Barcarolle, Impromptus

Alexander Boyd plays some of Chopin's most beloved works – the 4 Ballades, the beautiful Barcarolle, and two Impromptus. Boyd is a pianist-composer whose previous discography includes Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bach, Debussy, and Schumann. His recent recordings of Goyescas by Granados and the Iberia Suite by Albeniz have been warmly received by critics.
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Boris Giltburg:2025-02-08

Rachmaninov – Piano Sonatas, The Isle of the Dead

Rachmaninov often seems to have written only one piano sonata – that in B flat minor. The first Sonata, symphonic in scale and with great dramatic power, has remained severely underappreciated. The symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead was inspired by the eponymous painting by Arnold Böcklin. Boris Giltburg has revised Georgy Kirkor’s 1957 transcription, reinstating Rachmaninov’s complex three-layer writing.
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Dmitry Masleev:2025-02-03

DIES IRAE – Liszt, Rachmaninoff

On his fourth album, centered around the haunting Dies Irae theme, Dmitry Masleev leads the Svetlanov Orchestra from the piano. It opens with Liszt's Totentanz, which Masleev performed when winning the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. The program continues with Rhapsodie espagnole (adapted for piano and string orchestra by Masleev's mentor Petukhov) and concludes with Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody.
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Seong-Jin Cho:2025-01-28

Ravel – Complete Solo Piano Works

2025 marks the tenth anniversary of Seong-Jin Cho’s first-prize victory in the Chopin Competition, and Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday anniversary. Cho celebrates with this recording of the composer's complete piano works, which he also performs in single recital programs, in chronological order and with two intermissions: a tour de force that few concert pianists have dared to attempt publicly.
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Kate Liu:2025-01-24

Beethoven Op. 110, Brahms Sonata No. 3

Since being awarded third prize in the Chopin Competition in 2015, Kate Liu has performed in many prestigious venues worldwide. In 2016, she released her debut album of Chopin works on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label. For her debut with Orchid Classics, she has chosen to leave Chopin aside and record two great sonatas, one by the aged Beethoven and one by the young Brahms.
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