Klassische Klavierstücke

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

The album is dedicated to Ailika (being 5 years old in 1982), the eldest daughter of violinist Gidon Kremer. Everybody expected she would also adopt a musical career, however Lika Kremer became a famo...

Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was not only a well-known composer, but also a great pianist and renowned professor. One of his master pupils was Vladimir Horowitz. As a conductor of the Mariinsky Theatr...

Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was not only a well-known composer, but also a great pianist and renowned professor. One of his master pupils was Vladimir Horowitz. As a conductor of the Mariinsky Theatr...

Springs Lights and Other Compositions for Piano and Guitar consists of five compositions for an instrumental duo with unique timbric possibilities. Written by guitarist-composer Maurizio Colonna and p...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Symphonic Dances was Rachmaninoff’s final major work. Inon Barnatan comments, A few years ago, I came across a unique recording from 1940: a rough, private capture of Rachmaninoff playing through his...

Dance of the Adolescent is an excerpt from Grogh, a ballet composed between 1922 and 1924, during the composer's student years in Paris.The story of the ballet tells of a magician, Grogh by name, who...