Featuring 26 tracks, including ten arrangements by Sir Stephen Hough, Piano Postcards opens with Hough’s The Mary Poppins Suite, originally commissioned for Lang Lang and featured on his 2022 album The Disney Book. Incorporating “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” “Feed the Birds,” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” the suite blends beloved Disney melodies with virtuosic invention. Hough also contributes arrangements from Disney’s Frozen, Mulan, and …

The partnership of pianists Wu Qian and Juho Pohjonen began over a decade ago, having originally collaborated as artists in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Since that first introduction, both soloists have returned to their duet to explore the piano duo repertoire — a most intimate form of chamber music – two musicians sharing a single instrument, breathing …

Neave Trio presents a program of piano trios celebrating three women composers in the early modern era. The album continues the Trio’s longstanding commitment to uplifting historically underrepresented voices in the chamber music repertoire. Written in 1846, Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio Op. 17 in G minor, is widely recognized as one of her finest chamber works, despite the composer’s characteristic …

Chicago-based Duo FAE (violinist Charlene Kluegel and pianist Katherine Petersen) pay tribute to three pioneering women composers whose work and lives defied the social confines of their time. Featuring Cécile Chaminade’s Trois Morceaux, and sonatas by Dame Ethel Smyth and Amy Beach, these chamber works for violin and piano stand as acts of bold artistic and political expression. Anchored in …