Piano Pieces

Konstantin Shamray - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eighteen Piano Pieces, Op.72 (2012)

Konstantin Shamray - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eighteen Piano Pieces, Op.72 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 198 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572225 | Time: 01:07:07

Tchaikovsky completed his last set of piano pieces about six months before his death. Each bears a dedication to a friend or colleague including distinguished musicians such as Paul Pabst, Vasily Sapelnikov and Vasily Safonov. The 18 pieces are no mere salon effusions; rather they are richly characterised, sometimes virtuosic, and perfectly crafted miniatures. Schumann and Chopin are deliberately evoked, the music embracing a rich variety of dance, melancholy, fantasy and bravura. The set is played by the brilliant young prizewinner of the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2008, Konstantin Shamray.

Sabine Liebner - Christian Wolff: Piano Pieces (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Oct. 20, 2021
Sabine Liebner - Christian Wolff: Piano Pieces (2008)

Sabine Liebner - Christian Wolff: Piano Pieces (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 214 MB | 01:16:58
Genre: Classical | Label: NEOS Music

Christian Wolff was once the baby of the New York School, only 19 when he cast his lot with John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown; in 2008, he is the last man standing. Solo piano music is central to Wolff's output, and on Neos' Christian Wolff: Piano Pieces, German pianist Sabine Liebner performs a nice cross section of his efforts in this medium from 1969 to 2006. It takes a pianist with some amount of insight to realize Wolff's compositions, all to some degree open ended, and he does not spell out all of the details.

Stephen Hough - Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces (2020)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 25, 2020
Stephen Hough - Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces (2020)

Stephen Hough - Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 69:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA68116 | Recorded: 2019

Blend imaginative yet learned interpretation, profound sensitivity and poetry, and personal charisma, and you have here one of the finest accounts of Brahms’s late piano works on record, one that stands head and shoulders above most contenders in an ever-growing catalogue…Hough reveals each miniature as a compact piece of theatre, putting an array of timbres and varied accentuation at its service.

Patrick Cohen - Erik Satie: Piano Pieces (2003)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Nov. 15, 2022
Patrick Cohen - Erik Satie: Piano Pieces (2003)

Patrick Cohen - Erik Satie: Piano Pieces (2003)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 173 MB | 01:03:40
Genre: Classical | Label: Glossa

A cult record if there ever was one, Patrick Cohen’s Satie goes far beyond any one of the many versions of this music on the market. It is simply something else. Possibly the best CD Glossa has ever produced, it has provoked controversies of all sorts since its release in 1998, not only due to the interpretation and the instrument used, an 1855 Érard piano, but also because of the polemical essay which accompanies the recording.

Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius: Piano Pieces (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 1, 2017
Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius: Piano Pieces (2017)

Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius: Piano Pieces
Classical, Piano | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 66:19 min | 208 MB
Label: Sony Classical | Tracks: 24 | Rls.date: 2017

Leif Ove Andsnes plays the symphonic master’s hidden piano gems. "Everyone was astonished that there can be a major composer out there with such beautiful, accessible music that people don’t know. These are intriguing works with the wonderful Sibelius qualities we know. I really, really believe in this music and I want people to hear it.“ (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Sergey Tanin - Prokofiev: 10 Piano Pieces Op. 12 (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 9, 2021
Sergey Tanin - Prokofiev: 10 Piano Pieces Op. 12 (2021)

Sergey Tanin - Prokofiev: 10 Piano Pieces Op. 12 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 64 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 55 Mb | 00:23:42
Classical | Label: Prospero Classical

The Russian pianist Sergey Tanin, born in 1995 in Yakutia / Siberia, emerged as the winner of the audience award and the third jury award at the last Concours Géza Anda 2018 and received numerous other awards in Russia, Finland and Germany. “His well-groomed, pure and honest piano playing is reminiscent of the values of the great Russian piano school. The music develops naturally and unobtrusively under his fingers. In the poetic and intimate passages, the artist succeeds in developing a great affinity for the composers of the works performed, ”was the artistic judgment of the Zurich jury.

Ann-Sofi Klingberg - Skog & Tarrodi: Piano Pieces (2019)  Music

Posted by varrock at March 10, 2019
Ann-Sofi Klingberg - Skog & Tarrodi: Piano Pieces (2019)

Ann-Sofi Klingberg - Skog & Tarrodi: Piano Pieces (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 178 MB | Tracks: 25 | 54:40 min
Style: Classical | Label: dB Productions

This new release features world premiere recordings of piano pieces by two of Sweden's most interesting composers, twice Grammis Award-nominated Ylva Skog and Grammis Award-winning Andrea Tarrodi, performed by Grammis Award-winning pianist Ann-Sofi Klingberg. Contributions also include works by pianist Mats Widlund in two pieces for piano four hands. This is contemporary and accessible music at its best! In her composing, Ylva Skog (born 1963) intuitively blends and fuses musical styles, drawing inspiration from an eclectic range of sources including fine art and literature. It has been said that Ylva Skog stand with one leg in the tradition of Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók, and the other in jazz, rock and Latin American music.
Anna Magdalena Kokits - Ernst Toch: Solo Piano Pieces (2017) {Capriccio}

Anna Magdalena Kokits - Ernst Toch: Solo Piano Pieces (2017) {Capriccio}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 221MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 196MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical

Ernst Toch est né en 1887 à Vienne, Empire Austro-hongrois (Autriche). D'abord autodidacte, il étudia ensuite la composition et le piano au Conservatoire Hoch de Francfort (Allemagne), puis mena une double carrière de pianiste-concertiste et de compositeur. De plus, en 1914, il enseigna le piano et la composition au Conservatoire de Mannheim, avant de servir dans l'armée allemande durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Celle-ci achevée, il revint à Mannheim, en 1928, s'installa à Berlin avec sa famille. De religion juive, l'avènement du nazisme en 1933 le contraint à fuir l'Allemagne. Après un court passage à Paris et à Londres, il s'exila en 1934 aux États-Unis, où il s'établit définitivement.

Eero Heinonen - Sibelius: Piano Music (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 30, 2020
Eero Heinonen - Sibelius: Piano Music (2020)

Eero Heinonen - Sibelius: Piano Music (2020)
FLAC tracks | 71:04 | 225 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

Eero Heinonen has long been a champion of the composers neglected output for piano. With this recording he continues to make the case for music that does not easily give up its secrets but, in the right hands, sings with Sibeliuss unique voice. Sibelius was not himself an accomplished pianist, but he wrote for the instrument at which he composed throughout his career, and maintained that, while often overlooked, its time would come. In recent years his prophecy has come true, especially with the Op.75 suite of five pieces which he composed in 1914 and titled The Trees.

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 9, 2022
Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2022)

Jouni Somero - Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:17:50 | 242 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

For many years the Busoni student Selim Palmgren was the most frequently performed Finnish composer after Sibelius. With a portfolio of nearly 400 piano works, his contribution to the prestige of the Nordic repertoire was significant both in scope and creative artistry. This fifth volume of Palmgren’s complete solo piano music explores oriental moods in Exotic March, Op. 46, and includes two of his best-known and most beautiful pieces, Aftonröster, Op. 47 No. 1 ("Evening Whispers") and the winter magic of Snöflingor, Op. 57 No. 2 ("Snowflakes"). The Sonatine in F major, Op. 93 marked Palmgren’s return to composition after the death of his wife five years earlier and enshrines nostalgia whilst hinting at neo-Classicism.