Piano Complete Works

Jan Vermeulen, Christine Busch, France Springuel - Schubert: Complete works for Fortepiano Trio (2013)

Jan Vermeulen, Christine Busch, France Springuel - Schubert: Complete works for Fortepiano Trio (2013)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 479 Mb | Total time: 52:59+59:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera | # KTC 1495 | Recorded: 2012

Listening to this beautifully played collection of Schubert’s piano trios, the two completed ones and the lonely single movements, I realized that this is the one recording I have that was made on fortepiano. Other favorites, including the recordings by the Beaux Arts Trio, the lesser known Trio di Trieste, and the more romantic recording by Arthur Grumiaux, Pierre Fournier, and Nikita Magaloff, are on modern instruments. That wouldn’t matter, perhaps, if the performances on this new disc were less convincing. Jan Vermeulen has been recording the Schubert sonatas to great acclaim. He now has added a recording of the trios that is clearly articulated, impassioned, at times even jaunty.
Xavier Phillips, Francois-Frederic Guy - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2015) 2CDs

Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2015) 2CDs
Xavier Phillips (cello); François-Frédéric Guy (piano)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 532 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 307 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Evidence Classics | # EVCD015 | Time: 02:11:52

Act III of François-Frédéric Guy's Beethoven Project. On the programme: Beethoven's complete music for cello and piano with cellist Xavier Phillips, recorded by Nicolas Bartholomée at the Arsenal in Metz. In 2008 Guy embarked on a major Beethoven project that has included recording and performing in concert all 32 Beethoven Sonatas and the 5 Piano Concertos. Guy is a dedicated chamber musician and he regularly performs Beethoven’s chamber music for strings and piano as well, with Tedi Papavrami and Xavier Phillips. As part of the Beethoven project, Guy has performed the complete cycle of 32 Sonatas in Washington, Paris, Monaco and recently at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André (August 2013). Born in Paris, Xavier Phillips started playing the cello at the age of 6. His encounter with Mstislav Rostropovitch proved especially fruitful since it marked the beginning of a long collaboration during which Xavier Phillips received the guidance and encouragement of the master cellist.
Elizabeth Dolin, Bernadene Blaha - Felix Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2003)

Felix Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2003)
Elizabeth Dolin, cello; Bernadene Blaha, piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 232 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta | # FL 2 3166 | Time: 01:03:14

Mendelssohn's complete works for cello and piano fit on a single CD with room to spare, and your collection should have room to spare for the terrific performances contained on this disc. Cellist Elizabeth Dolin and pianist Bernadene Blaha emphasize the composer's classicism and elegance, in contrast to the somewhat wilder spin with which cellist Mark Shuman and pianist Todd Crow suffuse these works. But whereas the latter ASV release is resonant to a fault, Analekta's engineering conveys a more intimate and equally warm ambience that falls kindly on the ears. Dolin and Blaha are never less than equal partners, which is important considering that Mendelssohn treats both instruments as such. (Classics Today 10/10)
Michael Grebanier, Janet Guggenheim - Rachmaninov: Complete Works For Cello And Piano (1999)

Michael Grebanier, Janet Guggenheim - Rachmaninov: Complete Works For Cello And Piano (1999)
XLD | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:35 | 263 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8550987

A majority of well-known composers have written at least a few chamber compositions in their entire lifetime. The most famous would have to be Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and probably Prokofiev. Some, including Respighi and Vaughan Williams, are overlooked or even rejected in today's society. Whether it's because of lack of originality or excessive complexities, these sorts of compositions are always left in the dark. Take Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata, for instance. This 35-minute work doesn't receive the complete recognition it deserves. It's overshadowed by the composer's piano concertos and symphonies, all of which are respectfully first-rate works in their own right.
Leonie Karatas - La Vita: Vítězslava Kaprálová: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2021)

Leonie Karatas - La Vita: Vítězslava Kaprálová: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 219 Mb | Total time: 72:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EuroArts | # 2069107 | Recorded: 2021

Leonie Karatas' debut album is dedicated to the solo work of the Czech composer Vitezslava Kaprálová and is the prelude to a series of further recordings which will be dedicated to the work of individual female composers.
Ronald Brautigam - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 09 (2010)

Ronald Brautigam - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 09 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 60:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1672 SACD | Recorded: 2008

In eight previous volumes Ronald Brautigam has traversed what is often called 'The New Testament of Piano Music', namely Beethoven's 32 numbered sonatas. The present disc may be regarded as an appendix to these, as it explores the composer's first attempts in the genre. It opens with the three Kurfürsten Sonatas from 1783, in which Beethoven - at the tender age of twelve - demonstrates a remarkable maturity.
Gerhard Oppitz - Johannes Brahms: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2 (1990)

Gerhard Oppitz - Johannes Brahms: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 237 Mb | Total time: 72:42 | Scans included
Classical | Eurodisc | RD 69247 | Recorded: 1989

The perfect case of a pianist who sounds completely relaxed in the studio and, because of that, manages to balance assertiveness and poetry in ideal proportions. Gerhard Oppitz is a penetrating Brahmsian, bracing in the youthful works, quietly confiding in the later ones.
Gerhard Oppitz - Johannes Brahms: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 (1990)

Gerhard Oppitz - Johannes Brahms: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 74:21 | Scans included
Classical | Eurodisc | RD 69246 | Recorded: 1989

The perfect case of a pianist who sounds completely relaxed in the studio and, because of that, manages to balance assertiveness and poetry in ideal proportions. Gerhard Oppitz is a penetrating Brahmsian, bracing in the youthful works, quietly confiding in the later ones.
Gerhard Oppitz - Johannes Brahms: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3 (1990)

Gerhard Oppitz - Johannes Brahms: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 72:59 | Scans included
Classical | Eurodisc | RD 69248 | Recorded: 1989

The perfect case of a pianist who sounds completely relaxed in the studio and, because of that, manages to balance assertiveness and poetry in ideal proportions. Gerhard Oppitz is a penetrating Brahmsian, bracing in the youthful works, quietly confiding in the later ones.
Ronald Brautigam - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 10 (2011)

Ronald Brautigam - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 10 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 71:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1882 SACD | Recorded: 2010

After eight discs with the 32 numbered sonatas, and a ninth comprising the early sonatas and sonatinas, Ronald Brautigam now embarks on the second leg of his traversal of Beethoven’s complete music for solo piano. In this volume he gives us the complete Bagatelles, and includes not only the three sets published during Beethoven’s life time, but also thirteen further pieces composed throughout Beethoven’s career, between 1795 and 1825. Some of these pieces, most famously ‘Für Elise’, are sometimes referred to as Bagatelles, others simply as Klavierstücke and several of them are only known by their tempo markings.