Piano

Newly signed on with naïve, the Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son immerses herself in the limitless whimsical imagination of Mozart's sonatas, and with this complete collection takes us on a voyage in a land of contrasts.

When it comes to the great English pianists of the twentieth century, none was greater than Solomon. Born Solomon Cutner, he was a child prodigy who worked himself into a nervous breakdown by the age of 15.

"A kaleidoscopic Mozart with the wisdom and experience of a lifetime," The Arts Desk, a British cultural website, described Elisabeth Leonskaya's interpretation of Mozart. Now the Grande Dame of the piano has recorded the entire piano sonatas of the Austrian.

With the 'Herman D. Koppel Edition, Vol. 1-3', Christian Westergaard, a renowned Danish pianist, tackles the music of one of the 20th century's greatest Danish composers, Herman D. Koppel (1908-1998). From Koppel's brief, starkly simple piano pieces to his lavish, sprawling masterworks, all teeming with vitality and introspection: As you listen, a whole world unfolds, rivaling the depth and breadth of Paul Hindemith's oeuvre.

Following his critically acclaimed recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas and Diabelli Variations, made between 1992 and 1996, the pianist and conductor Alfredo Perl is now scaling this summit of classical-romantic piano music for the second time.

The pianist Claudio Arrau fully deserves the epithet "legendary": a sovereign technical command, a deep patience and a gravitation towards weighty matters, enriched by his study with 'philosopher pianists' such as Busoni and Martin Krause.

This album includes all of the completed piano sonatas by Franz Schubert. These works occupy a unique realm within the piano literature. Russian pianist Larissa Dedova has previously recorded highly acclaimed recordings of the complete piano works of Debussy and Ravel for Centaur Records.

Though chamber music is incontestably the least well-known component of his corpus, Camille Saint-Saëns was a master of the genre, leaving us with a large collection of works. We may think of Saint-Saëns as a conservative and very academic composer. And yet, we would be well advised to remember that he was, in fact, a pioneer. Even as a young man, Saint-Saëns delved into chamber music instead of opera, the conventional form for an up-and- coming musician. He composed chamber music throughout his life - through to the final woodwind sonatas in 1921 - restoring luster to the form which, in France, had been all but forgotten.

This album is entirely dedicated to the piano works of Muzio Clementi, the "father of the piano". Clementi composed almost 110 piano sonatas. Erik Satie, a contemporary of Debussy, later parodied the style of the early sonatas (also "Sonatinen") in his "Sonatine bureaucratique"