Great pianists

Over the past five years, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has made three Alpha recordings dedicated to Shostakovitch, Brahms et Rachmaninov. Evgeni Koroliov is a great master of the piano, a great Bach specialist, whose…

 "We'd like for you all to help us get in the groove, let your hair down, and come on and get in the music with us, " says Horace Silver in the spoken introduction to Doin' The Thing, the only live album the great…

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns, the French pianist, organist, critic and great Romantic composer. The cellist Astrig Siranossian, whose tribute album to Nadia Boulanger (Dear…

Olivier Messiaen's two-hour, 20-movement piano solo cycle on the Observations of the Child Jesus was written in 1944 after the 'Quatuor pour la fin tu temps' and the 'Visions de l'Amen? for 2 pianos and has established…

The Faber Music Piano Anthology is a beautiful collection of core repertoire from the great composers, presented in progressive order. This luxury hardback edition features high-quality premium paper, page finder ribbon…

Long recognized as one of this century´s great pianists, Ivan Moravec´s performances and recordings alike have prompted critics in search of parallels to call up such names as Gieseking and Richter. Yet his musicianship,…

The rich musical life of Moscow is displayed in these memoirs where formidable Russian pianists take the world by storm, revealing by their virtuosity and musicianship the continuation of a great pianistic tradition.…

A solo concert from Keith Jarrett - recorded at Munich?s Philharmonie on July 16, 2016, on the last night of a European tour - finds the great improvising pianist at a peak of invention. Creating a spontaneous suite of…

John Coltrane plays passionately on "My Favorite Things" and with great beauty on "Naima, " while Pharoah Sanders' ferocious sax appears on the latter piece. Pianist Alice Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer…

The Faber Music Piano Anthology is a beautiful collection of core repertoire from the great composers, presented in progressive order. Selected by pianist and teacher Melanie Spanswick, this anthology is ideal for…

A collection of the world's finest classical and popular music arranged for the advanced pianist. Here you will find the great masterpieces of every era - from classical and romance to ragtime and blues. Enjoy three…

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958?s Moanin? ? featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie…

Keith Jarrett is one of the great pianists of our times. Before achieving worldwide fame for his solo improvisations, he had already collaborated with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. His ?Köln Concert? album…

A special triple album of great Romantic works by one of the world?s most accomplished pianist specializing in works of that era. These stunning performances of Busoni?s Chaconne (after J S Bach) and Berg?s Sonata are…

Angela Hewitt?s new album is clearly destined to become a favourite. Some of the best-known musical declarations of love across the centuries, heard in transcriptions by some of the great pianists (including Angela…

Paul Badura-Skoda is considered to be one of the great pianists of his generation, as well as an important scholar who has created definitive editions of many of the works of the Viennese masters, most notably Wolfgang…

Comparatively few listeners even today know how much Dussek did toward developing the technical resources of the piano. The contemporary of Mozart, and a great pianist in his own right, he composed more than fifty…

?You don?t need a teacher; what you need is an audience.? Those were the words of the great pianist and teacher Alfred Cortot, after the young Rudolf Firku?ný had auditioned for him in Paris. Born in southern Moravia in…

Bill Evans, the pianist, is a towering figure acknowledged by the jazz world, fans, musicians and critics. However Bill Evans, the composer, has yet to take his place alongside the great masters of composition. Therein…

 For his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin' Off and My Point Of View. Inspired by…

The pianist Maria Kihlgren studied at Göteborgs Musikhögskola and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna gaining her diploma in 1979. She has performed in Sweden and several European countries, the…

A talented pianist and composer in his own right, Sun Ra (1914 - 1993) founded and conducted one of jazz's last great big bands from the 1950s until he left planet Earth. Few only know that he also was a gifted thinker…

Muse The Easy Piano Songbook contains 23 great Muse songs specially arranged for the intermediate pianist.

The present release features Bohuslav Martinu?s works for cello and piano performed by Petr Nouzovský, who is recognized as one of Europe's eminent cellists of his generation, and great pianist Miroslav Sekera, who…

An exploration of the delights and demands of the piano. It considers various aspects of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to suffering from stage fright, from the physical challenges of playing to tales…

The new album Schubert: Explorations by pianist Mathieu Gaudet is the fourth volume in his wonderful collection The Complete Sonatas and Major Works for Piano of the great German composer Franz Schubert. Between his…

On this 1987 album Pharoah Sanders is accompanied by the great Idris Muhammad on drums, John Hicks on piano and Curtis Lundy on bass. Five of the eight compositions are by Sanders, one track by pianist John Hicks,…

Like Friedrich Gulda and Martha Argerich, the Swiss pianist Brigitte Meyer comes from the Viennese talent factory of the great teacher Bruno Seidlhofer. Her long international career has taken her to the world's foremost…

Any new album by Vladimir Ashkenazy is cause for celebration and attracts worldwide attention. First as a pianist and latterly as a conductor in a performing career of over six decades, Ashkenazy was recognized early on…

Two great artists, pianist András Schiff and composer/ clarinettist Jörg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms?s late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894. In between…

Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as 'hard bop' in the 1950s. This freewheeling autobiography of the great composer,…

Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players. This book encourages musicians to develop a broader…