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Historic Piano Performance

Historic piano performance refers to the musical practice emphasizing the interpretation of piano works as they were potentially conceived and performed during their respective time periods. This genre is characterized by the application of historically informed techniques, including touch, articulation, and pedaling, as well as the utilization of period instruments or modern pianos that emulate their sound qualities. The artists associated with this genre, such as Mark Hambourg and Egon Petri, are known for their scholarly approach to music-making and technical mastery that aims to bridge the gap between contemporary audiences and the expressive intents of composers from past eras. Their recordings and performances offer a window into the sonic and emotive world of the piano’s historical repertoire.

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20th Century Masterworks - Pavlova

Ignaz Friedman•

Johann Sebastian Bach•

Frédéric Chopin•

Claude Debussy•

Edvard Grieg•

Gustav Mahler•

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•

Franz Schubert•

Album - 102 Tracks - Released February 13, 2025

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February 13, 2025

20th Century Masterworks - Pavlova
Ignaz Friedman•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Frédéric Chopin•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Gustav Mahler•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Franz Schubert•
Franz Liszt
102 tracks
February 1

20th Century Rolls Essentials - Extase
Ignaz Friedman•
Franz Liszt•
Antonín Dvořák•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Hector Berlioz•
Frédéric Chopin•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
73 tracks
January 24

Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Chopin Variations, Sonatina Prima & Seconda
Ferruccio Busoni•
Peter Donohoe•
Karl Lutchmayer
19 tracks
January 22

Walter Gieseking - A Piano Landscape
Walter Gieseking•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Franz Schubert•
George Frideric Handel•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johannes Brahms•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
112 tracks
January 18

053 Classical and Contemporary Essentials - Caeli
Ferruccio Busoni•
Robert Schumann•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Claude Debussy•
Frédéric Chopin•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Johannes Brahms•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Franz Liszt•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
55 tracks
January 16

Daniel Barenboim - The Conductor
Daniel Barenboim•
Anton Bruckner•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Gabriel Fauré•
Georges Bizet•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
Igor Stravinsky•
Johannes Brahms•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Manuel de Falla•
Maurice Ravel•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Wagner•
Witold Lutosławski•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
136 tracks
January 6

Le poète du piano
Samson François•
Claude Debussy•
Franz Liszt•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
39 tracks
December 27, 2024

Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica, for two pianos, BV 256b Fuga III
Ferruccio Busoni•
Peter Donohoe•
Karl Lutchmayer
1 tracks
December 26

Scenes from Childhood
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Alexandre Tansman•
Anton Webern•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Charles Gounod•
Claude Debussy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Dmitry Kabalevsky•
Edvard Grieg•
Enrique Granados•
Erik Satie•
Federico Mompou•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Pierné•
George Enescu•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Heitor Villa-Lobos•
Henri Dutilleux•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jan Dismas Zelenka•
Johannes Brahms•
Joseph Haydn•
Leoš Janáček•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Max Reger•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Olivier Messiaen•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ralph Vaughan Williams
60 tracks
November 15

The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals, 1981–1989 (Remastered 2024) [Live]
Shura Cherkassky
66 tracks
November 8

Busoni: Doktor Faust
Ferruccio Busoni•
Dietrich Henschel•
Daniel Brenna•
Wilhelm Schwinghammer•
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino•
Cornelius Meister
30 tracks
November 6

Minuet. Bach, Mozart & Golden Age Piano Music
Edwin Fischer•
Johann Sebastian Bach
48 tracks
November 1

Busoni: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 & 4 Bagatelles
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
Francesca Leonardi
17 tracks
November 1

SCHUMANN: Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten from Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 (Live)
Robert Schumann•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
October 31

Mozart on the piano vol. 1 (Remastered 2017)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Walter Gieseking
13 tracks
October 31

Art in music (Remastered 2024)
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Marcelle Meyer
10 tracks
October 31

Sonata vol.2 (Remastered 2017)
Edwin Fischer•
Sviatoslav Richter
11 tracks
October 31

Mozart on the piano (Remastered 2017)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Walter Gieseking
13 tracks
October 24

Art in music vol. 1 (Remastered 2019)
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Marcelle Meyer
10 tracks
October 21

Piano for piano (Remastered 2020)
Wilhelm Backhaus•
Wiener Symphoniker•
Karl Böhm
11 tracks
October 21

Preludes vol. 1 (Remastered 2019)
Claude Debussy•
Marcelle Meyer
12 tracks
October 21

Preludes (Remastered 2019)
Claude Debussy•
Marcelle Meyer
12 tracks
October 20

October in music vol.2 (Remastered 2020)
Maurice Ravel•
Marcelle Meyer
10 tracks
October 18

LISZT: Valse de l’opéra Faust de Gounod, S407/R166 (Live)
Franz Liszt•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
October 18

Busoni: 4 Bagatelles, Op. 28: III. Wiener Tanzweise
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
Francesca Leonardi
1 tracks
October 4

FRANCK: Choral from Prélude, Choral et Fugue, M. 21 Choral (Live)
César Franck•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
October 2

Walter gieseking collection, vol. 39
Claude Debussy•
Walter Gieseking•
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
6 tracks
September 27

Busoni: Violin Sonata No.2 in E Minor, Op. 36a: II. Presto
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
Francesca Leonardi
1 tracks
September 20

MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo a capriccio in F sharp minor, WoO 3 (Live)
Felix Mendelssohn•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
September 10

Moonlight. Variations, Preludes and Other Piano Works by Mozart, Debussy, Grieg, Beethoven & Schumann
Walter Gieseking•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
67 tracks
September 6

CHOPIN: Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36 (Live)
Frédéric Chopin•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
September 5

Martha Goldstein plays Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ferruccio Busoni
4 tracks
August 27

Waldstein. The Legacy of Beethoven and Chopin
Shura Cherkassky•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Frédéric Chopin•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
43 tracks
August 22

Walter Gieseking Collection, Vol. 12
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Walter Gieseking
3 tracks
August 21

Walter Gieseking Collection, Vol. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Walter Gieseking
4 tracks
August 21

Walter Gieseking Collection, Vol. 10
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Walter Gieseking
5 tracks
August 13

Tandeln Und Scherzen. Bach, Mozart & Golden Age Piano Music
Edwin Fischer•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
45 tracks
August 12

Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35: Book I (2024 Remaster)
Johannes Brahms•
Wilhelm Backhaus
15 tracks
August 12

Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 (2024 Remaster)
Frédéric Chopin•
Ferruccio Busoni
24 tracks
August 12

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 (2024 Remaster)
Frédéric Chopin•
Josef Hofmann
3 tracks

February 13, 2025

20th Century Masterworks - Pavlova
Ignaz Friedman•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Frédéric Chopin•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Gustav Mahler•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Franz Schubert•
Franz Liszt
102 tracks
February 1

20th Century Rolls Essentials - Extase
Ignaz Friedman•
Franz Liszt•
Antonín Dvořák•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Hector Berlioz•
Frédéric Chopin•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
73 tracks
January 24

Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Chopin Variations, Sonatina Prima & Seconda
Ferruccio Busoni•
Peter Donohoe•
Karl Lutchmayer
19 tracks
January 22

Walter Gieseking - A Piano Landscape
Walter Gieseking•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Franz Schubert•
George Frideric Handel•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johannes Brahms•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
112 tracks
January 18

053 Classical and Contemporary Essentials - Caeli
Ferruccio Busoni•
Robert Schumann•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Claude Debussy•
Frédéric Chopin•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Johannes Brahms•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Franz Liszt•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
55 tracks
January 16

Daniel Barenboim - The Conductor
Daniel Barenboim•
Anton Bruckner•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Gabriel Fauré•
Georges Bizet•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Mahler•
Igor Stravinsky•
Johannes Brahms•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Manuel de Falla•
Maurice Ravel•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Wagner•
Witold Lutosławski•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
136 tracks
January 6

Le poète du piano
Samson François•
Claude Debussy•
Franz Liszt•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
39 tracks
December 26, 2024

Scenes from Childhood
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Alexandre Tansman•
Anton Webern•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Charles Gounod•
Claude Debussy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Dmitry Kabalevsky•
Edvard Grieg•
Enrique Granados•
Erik Satie•
Federico Mompou•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Pierné•
George Enescu•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Heitor Villa-Lobos•
Henri Dutilleux•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jan Dismas Zelenka•
Johannes Brahms•
Joseph Haydn•
Leoš Janáček•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Max Reger•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Olivier Messiaen•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ralph Vaughan Williams
60 tracks
November 15

The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals, 1981–1989 (Remastered 2024) [Live]
Shura Cherkassky
66 tracks
November 8

Busoni: Doktor Faust
Ferruccio Busoni•
Dietrich Henschel•
Daniel Brenna•
Wilhelm Schwinghammer•
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino•
Cornelius Meister
30 tracks
November 6

Minuet. Bach, Mozart & Golden Age Piano Music
Edwin Fischer•
Johann Sebastian Bach
48 tracks
November 1

Busoni: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 & 4 Bagatelles
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
Francesca Leonardi
17 tracks
October 31

Art in music (Remastered 2024)
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Marcelle Meyer
10 tracks
October 31

Mozart on the piano vol. 1 (Remastered 2017)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Walter Gieseking
13 tracks
October 31

Sonata vol.2 (Remastered 2017)
Edwin Fischer•
Sviatoslav Richter
11 tracks
October 31

Mozart on the piano (Remastered 2017)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Walter Gieseking
13 tracks
October 24

Art in music vol. 1 (Remastered 2019)
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Marcelle Meyer
10 tracks
October 21

Preludes vol. 1 (Remastered 2019)
Claude Debussy•
Marcelle Meyer
12 tracks
October 21

Piano for piano (Remastered 2020)
Wilhelm Backhaus•
Wiener Symphoniker•
Karl Böhm
11 tracks
October 21

Preludes (Remastered 2019)
Claude Debussy•
Marcelle Meyer
12 tracks

December 27, 2024

Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica, for two pianos, BV 256b Fuga III
Ferruccio Busoni•
Peter Donohoe•
Karl Lutchmayer
1 tracks
November 1

SCHUMANN: Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten from Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 (Live)
Robert Schumann•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
October 18

Busoni: 4 Bagatelles, Op. 28: III. Wiener Tanzweise
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
Francesca Leonardi
1 tracks
October 18

LISZT: Valse de l’opéra Faust de Gounod, S407/R166 (Live)
Franz Liszt•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
October 4

FRANCK: Choral from Prélude, Choral et Fugue, M. 21 Choral (Live)
César Franck•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
September 27

Busoni: Violin Sonata No.2 in E Minor, Op. 36a: II. Presto
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
Francesca Leonardi
1 tracks
September 20

MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo a capriccio in F sharp minor, WoO 3 (Live)
Felix Mendelssohn•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
September 6

CHOPIN: Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36 (Live)
Frédéric Chopin•
Shura Cherkassky
1 tracks
August 22

Walter Gieseking Collection, Vol. 12
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Walter Gieseking
3 tracks
August 12

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 (2024 Remaster)
Frédéric Chopin•
Josef Hofmann
3 tracks
July 27

Beethoven: Adelaide, Op. 46 (2024 Remaster)
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Ferruccio Busoni
1 tracks
July 5

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (Live)
Johannes Brahms•
Solomon•
Berliner Philharmoniker•
Eugen Jochum
3 tracks
April 2

W. Gieseking - Sonatine for flute and piano
Walter Gieseking
3 tracks
March 25

Concerto in F Minor, BWV. 1056. I. Adagio (Slowed & Sped Up + Reverb)
Alfred Cortot
3 tracks
February 23

Busoni: Concerto in D Major, Op. 35a: II. Quasi andante
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesca Dego•
BBC Symphony Orchestra•
Dalia Stasevska
1 tracks
February 23

Eduard Erdmann: Sommer
Eduard Erdmann
1 tracks
February 9

Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Sharp Minor Op. 11: II. Aria. Senza passion, ma espressivo
Robert Schumann•
Annie Fischer
1 tracks
January 1

Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) [Slowed + Sped up + Reverb]
Wilhelm Backhaus
3 tracks
November 15, 2023

Samuil Feinberg - Sonata No. 1, Op. 1 (1915)
Samuel Feinberg
1 tracks
October 20

Nuit de Noël, BV 251
Ferruccio Busoni•
Igor Levit
1 tracks