New Piano Albums

Benjamin Grosvenor:2025-06-13

Chopin — Sonatas 2 & 3

On his ninth album for Decca classics, Benjamin Grosvenor explores Chopin's Piano sonatas 2 & 3, profound and contrasting works that together showcase the whole of Chopin’s emotional and musical range. Alongside the sonatas are three shorter works: the G minor Ballade, the Berceuse, and two Nocturnes.
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Schaghajegh Nosrati:2025-06-10

Haydn — Sonatas, Variations, Capriccio

For Schaghajegh Nosrati, Haydn, because of his thorough study of the works and writings of CPE Bach, became the true successor of Johann Sebastian Bach. "For all their stylistic differences, an underlying affinity between the two composers is unmistakable and may have been one reason why I, as a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, felt drawn to Haydn‘s music early on."
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Jennifer Lim:2025-06-07

Mozart — Complete Piano Sonatas

Mozart's piano sonatas have accompanied Jennifer Lim through cherished moments, from fond memories shared with her father to precious experiences on stage, providing her with comfort and inspiration. “Each note carries a piece of my jour­ney, serving as a reminder of the joy and comfort they’ve brought me over the years."
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Marcel Tadokoro:2025-06-04

Henselt — Piano Études

The 19-th century composer-pianist Adolf von Henselt was influential in establishing a true Russian school of pianism and held in high esteem by Rachmaninov. Henselt’s virtuoso technique was admired for its cantabile qualities but his performing career was cut short by extreme stage fright. These early études blend technical demands with poetic expressiveness reflected in colourful descriptive titles.
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Tuija Hakkila:2025-05-29

Touches — Saariaho: Piano and Harpsichord Works

Tuija Hakkila met Kaija Saariaho in 1982 when the composer moved to Paris, where Hakkila was studying at the time. Saariaho's musical thinking mirrored Hakkila's experiences, and a friendship was born that lasted for more than 40 years, until Saariaho passed away in 2023. The pianist describes this music as "a profusion of rippling and shifting colours".
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Yuja Wang:2025-05-25

Shostakovich – Piano Concertos & Solo Works

In Shostavich's sporadic piano output, the crowning achievements are two piano concertos, and a set of twenty-four preludes and fugues – a complex musical dialogue with Bach regarded as one of the masterpieces of the modern keyboard literature. Here, Yuja Wang performs the Concertos together with Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons, and rounds off with a selection of Preludes and Fugues.
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Justin Taylor:2025-05-19

Chopin intime

JustinTaylor pursues a multifaceted career as a harpsichordist and pianist, both as a soloist and as a chamber music player. His 2023 album Bach & Italy picked up plenty of awards, including Diapason d’Or of the Year, and BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice. On this album, he performs on a Pleyel pianino of 1839, the instrument of silvery, velvet sonorities on which Chopin composed his Preludes.
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Duo Geniušas-Geniushene:2025-05-13

Hallelujah Junction – Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Copland

Husband-and-wife piano duo explores 20th century music for piano duo, with John Adams' Halleluja Junction, named after a truck stop near the California-Nevada border, as the centerpiece. Lukas is a laureate of several prestigious piano competitions, including Tchaikovsky (2015) and Chopin (2010); Anna was the runner-up to Yunchan Lim at the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition.
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Morta Grigaliunaite:2025-05-10

Rautavaara – Complete Piano Works

It was the sense of otherworldliness that primarily drew Morta Grigaliunaite to Rautavaara's music. "The prospect of recording these works intrigued me for several years, yet I was overwhelmed by its magnitude. Finally, I decided to embrace this challenge, constantly reflecting on how Rautavaara’s music…consistently hovers between our world and the realm of the unknown."
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Paulo Oliveira:2025-05-08

Beethoven 250 + 4

Paulo Oliveira traces the centuries-old piano teaching tradition that he considers himself a part of. The journey begins with Haydn, one of Beethoven's masters. Next is Czerny, a disciple of Beethoven, who transmitted the musical heritage to Liszt. Through Liszt, the lineage reaches Vianna da Motta, who in turn trained Sequeira Costa, Oliveira's mentor for nearly a decade.
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Julian Jaeyoung Kim:2025-05-06

Beethoven – Waldstein, Les Adieux, Op. 2 No. 3

Julian Jaeyoung Kim's debut recording "Brahms Resonances" (2023) received laudatory reviews from several prominent publications, including Gramophone, Interlude HK, Klassik Heute, and Fanfare. This Beethoven album is Kim's debut with the Hänssler label, sponsored by the piano brand C. Bechstein and the publisher Bärenreiter.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet:2025-05-02

Ravel – Complete Works for Solo Piano

In his personal comments included in the CD booklet, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet comments on the unique style of Ravel, observing that the composer "does not confide in us intimately except on the rarest occasions. At these exceptional moments, our admiration for this musical giant, for his intelligence and elegant style of writing, for his perfect proportions, gives way to a wave of emotion that is difficult to contain."
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Cansu Sanlidag:2025-05-01

Philipp Scharwenka – The Nocturnal Poet

The music of Philipp Scharwenka synthesizes the worlds of Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner, while also incorporating Polish idioms inherited from Chopin. In his piano repertoire, one finds numerous "salon pieces" for amateurs; educational works, similar to Schumann’s Album für die Jugend; and finally, works intended for concert pianists, most of which were composed in the 1890s.
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Aaron Pilsan:2025-04-28

Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

When he was eight years old, Aaron Pilsan received a collection of Bach’s Little Preludes and Fughettas as a present from his piano teacher. Once he started learning them, he simply couldn’t stop. He became obsessed and would go into the basement where the piano stood and play them over and over until late into the night. "That was the moment that my love affair with Bach’s music began, and it has only got stronger over the years!"
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Duo Degas:2025-04-24

Grieg – Music for Piano 4 Hands

Duo Degas is based in Tuscany and comprises the pianists Gala Chistiakova and Diego Benocci, who are also married to each other. They perform across Europe, co-direct the "Recondite Armonie" International Festivals and "Young Musicians of the World" Cultural Exchange Projects, and serve as artistic directors for the IMOC festival and masterclasses in Grosseto. This Grieg album is their third release on the OnClassical label.
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Behzod Abduraimov:2025-04-20

Prokofiev & Shor - Piano Concertos

The young Prokofiev triggered a scandal with the first performance of his 2nd Piano Concerto at an evening party expecting pleasant background music - Prokofiev's music was of course anything but. Here, Abduraimov pairs it with a concerto by Alexey Shor, a contemporary composer who remains firmly in the tonal sphere.
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Jonas Vitaud:2025-04-17

Dvorák - Vers un monde noveau

Jonas Vitaud has always loved Dvorák and had played several of the composer's chamber music works when he was asked to think about a solo program. Reading and listening to the complete piano works, he found several unsuspected treasures, which he has now recorded on the "Opus 102" piano by Stephen Paulello.
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Beatrice Rana:2025-04-07

Bach – Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052–56

Playing the Goldberg Variations a few years ago was a milestone in Beatrice Rana's life as a musician, and made her even keener to play Bach. She has a long-standing relationship with the concertos, especially the one in F minor, which she played at the age of nine for her first public performance with orchestra. "I have fond memories of rehearsing it at home, with my father playing the piano reduction of the orchestra part".
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Jan Lisiecki:2025-04-05

Preludes

With his new album, Jan Lisiecki seeks to take “the audience on a musical expedition” in order to "showcase the broad possibilities of the humble Prelude”. He includes Chopin's complete Preludes, but also presents a broad spectrum of other composers, from Bach to Górecki, revealing how the genre developed over three centuries.
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Clément Lefebvre:2025-04-02

Scriabin – Con Eleganza

At the centre of Clément Lefebvre's all-Scriabin recital are the eight Impromptus, half an hour of music that bears witness to the composer's taste for refinement and the very special elegance of his music. "Lighter and more intimate, they contrast with the density and narrative force of the Piano Sonata no.3 and the Fantasie. I remain astonished that they are so rarely performed today, let alone recorded."
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Natalia Sokolovskaya:2025-03-30

Rameau – Complete Piano Music

Natalia Sokolovskaya's debut recording for the OnClassical Label was a portrait of the Czech 20th-century composer Leos Janácek. After continuing with a couple of Chopin albums, she now moves on to the early music domain. The last few months have seen her releasing Rameau's various Suites for solo piano one at a time – now they are all available in one album.
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Jeneba Kanneh-Mason:2025-03-25

Fantasie – Chopin, Scriabin, Florence Price and others

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason’s solo debut marks her place within a remarkable musical family – she is the fifth of the seven hugely talented Kanneh-Mason siblings. “I feel very connected to these pieces. They all mean a lot to me and by gathering them here for my début album, I am revealing not only more of myself as a musician but also the core of what moves me musically.”
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Marina Baranova:2025-03-23

Salon de Ravel

With Salon de Ravel, Ukrainian pianist and composer Marina Baranova takes the listener on a musical journey to the sources of Ravel's inspiration – original works by Ravel are combined with works by other composers (Chabrier, Haydn, Borodin, Couperin, Fauré, Grieg) that inspired him. She also contributes to the album with one of her own pieces, "a congratulation to Ravel on his birthday, but also an expression of my deep admiration for his art."
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Mitra Kotte:2025-03-21

Herstory

When Mitra Kotte received an invitation to play a recital with only female composers, she had never before played a solo piece written by a woman. Soon after, she was shocked by the realization that there were so many outstanding composers whom she had never heard of! In the end, she decided to record some of this music for her debut album, presenting a wide-ranging selection of pieces written between 1837 and 1937
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