Klassische Klavierstücke

As early evidence of Schubert's preoccupation with early music, his Fantasy in C D 2 E from 1811 contains echoes of Mozart's C minor Fantasy, while the virtuoso Graz Fantasy in C D 605 A, probably com...

Schumann's Arabeske and Blumenstück were composed during his stay in Vienna from October 1838 to April 1839 in the context of weightier piano works such as the C major Fantasy op. 17, the Humoreske op...

Schubert's great C minor Sonata D 958 was composed in 1828, a few months before his death, at the same time as the late sonatas in A D 959 and in B flat D 960. The three works, conceived by Schubert a...

The most famous of the fantasies, the Wanderer Fantasy, is also published as a single edition. When Schubert himself once played the Wanderer Fantasy with friends and faltered, he exclaimed impatientl...

The significance of Liszt's late piano pieces has been the subject of much debate. On the one hand they are considered heralds of the elderly Liszt's waning inspiration; on the other hand, they are pr...

There has been much debate about the significance of Liszt's late piano pieces. On the one hand, they are regarded as harbingers of the ageing Liszt's fading inspiration; on the other, they are praise...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in...

With a clever play on the words 'Ancient Modes', Graham Buckland presents eight character pieces for piano duet which effectively portray various mythical modes of transport and at the same time are b...

Graham Buckland brings mythical scenes to life, always with a focus on locomotion: One hears the flowing of the swimmers of Gilf Kebir (known from the movie "The English Patient"), the three-beat of t...

With its impressive range of gentle shades and hues, this composition plays with memories of Franz Liszt’s late piano pieces La lugubre gondola I and II. Manfred Trojahn likewise presents subdued melo...

This effective, demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones....

This effective, demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones....

The composer Thomas Daniel Schlee writes about his piano piece "Sursum chordis corda": "The third movement of my Second Symphony bears the title "Sursum corda", that liturgical call to lift up our hea...

The title of this piano work, written on the occasion of Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday, refers to the American painter Barnett Newman, one of the abstract expressionists of the 20th century. In his fa...

This pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's 'Sonate pour piano' (1950-52) is the first to present this masterpiece from the heyday of serialism in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. The new edition o...

The pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's "Sonate pour piano" (1950-1952) is the first time that a work from the heyday of serial music has been made available in a source-critical Urtext edition. The...

Lauschgut (2018/19) follows the idea of freeing the piano from its chordal tradition. Instead, the single note is fringed so far inwards that pitch and noise can meet in "fanned-out unanimity". The pi...

Zsigmond Szathmáry was deeply impressed by the vibrant colors and expressiveness of the mosaic paintings in the apse and altar area of the late antique church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The composer wa...

Red roots' (2022) hints at its source material in depth – only to turn it into something independent. Starting from a Beethovenian cell (from the unpublished sketch, 'Wir irren allesamt'), the focus i...

Otilie Suková was the daughter of Antonín Dvorák and the wife of Josef Suk. A gifted musician, she played the piano and wrote several compositions of her own, inspired by her musical surroundings. Fou...

Beethoven composed the works known as the "Elector Sonatas" in 1783 as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. "He would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he progressed as he ha...

The earliest sketches for Beethoven's Grande Sonate op. 7 date from 1796 and the first edition was issued by the publisher Artaria, Vienna in October 1797. It is dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Anna Lu...