The Best Piano Music

The Best of Joshua Bell - The Decca Years (3CDs) (2009)
Classical | Easy CD-DA / Flac & Cue, No Log | Cover included | 880 MB | MU
Audio CD: September 22, 2009 | Label: Decca

This is the very 1st Best of Joshua Bell album to ever be released! Highlighting the essential moments of Joshua Bell's career on Decca, this release offers full insight into this violinist s recordings. The Best of Joshua Bell: The Decca Years is a conceptual release, with each disc having a theme to its repertoire: The Concertos, Sonatas & Chamber Music, and Favorites! The perfect collection for any time! Featuring Masterpieces by Brahms, Mozart, Massenet, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Wieniawski, Fauré, Kreisler, and more! Joshua Bell is a living legend, having created more than 30 albums during the course of his career. Since making his concerto debut at the tender age of fourteen with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bell has established himself as one of the few great classical stars of the modern age.

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Take Five: The Best Of Cool Saxophone of Paul Desmond (Paul Emil Breitenfeld) is the story of a jazz artist who transcended genres to establish one of the most immediately recognizable sounds in all of music. Desmond is simply delightful, he’s so lyrical and his lines are so imaginative.

In the contest to see which Scandinavian country produced the best fin de siècle composer, Norway has Grieg, Denmark has Nielsen, Finland has Sibelius, and Sweden has Alfvén and Stenhammar. Needless to say, Grieg, Nielsen, and Sibelius are all vastly better known to non-Scandinavian audiences than Alfvén and especially Stenhammar. After all, Alfvén at least has the once popular Swedish Rhapsody to his credit, while Stenhammar is barely a name outside his own country.

Eroica Trio - The Best Of Eroica Trio (2005)
Composer: Tomaso Albinoni, Antonio Vivaldi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Johannes Brahms, et al.
FLAC+CUE+LOG | 324 MB | no scans
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 165 MB
Classic/Chamber | EMI Classics | 74:58

This generous album (nearly 75 minutes long) contains 14 selections from the award-winning trio's other CDs. Thus, the range of music is quite wide. The artists (Erika Nickrenz–piano, Adela Pena-violin, & Sara Sant'Ambrogio–cello), though accomplished soloists, meld their playing beautifully. Most of the pieces are very lively–not too relaxing or useful for meditation–but great for listening.

‘Delucchi has done us a great service’, noted Fanfare magazine in January 2022 after the release of his Czerny album (PCL10204) on Piano Classics. This young Italian pianist continues to go from strength to strength and to broaden his already diverse catalogue of recordings for the label – spanning Bach, Godowsky and his own music – with this new album of Stravinsky’s works for the piano.