With the attention given to Rameau’s harpsichord pieces and operas, we often forget that he was also an accomplished violinist. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and William Christie present an imaginary concert in which the violin and harpsichord or organ vie with each other in creative inventiveness. The program draws on the best-known opera scenes and arias by Rameau, but also …

Minnesota-based mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski presents her debut solo recording with pianist Timothy Lovelace, an active recitalist who heads the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Minnesota. Regularly heard as soloist with Music of the Baroque, Osowski is an internationally recognized interpreter of song literature. She received the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall International Song …

Born in Chicago, Oliver Talukder is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and teaching artist of Mexican and Bengali heritage and winner of Cedille’s 2025 Emerging Artist Competition. Joined by pianist Moriah Trenk, Talukder’s solo debut album on Cedille Records celebrates family, identity, home, and the many musical traditions that have shaped his life. “My home was filled with the aroma of …

Pianist and musicologist Maria Stratigou is one of the leading scholars in 19th century music by women composers with a specific expertise in the piano works of Louise Farrenc. Her fifth volume of recordings dedicated to Farrenc collects fugues, melodies, and waltzes. Farrenc’s graceful Mélodie in A flat major was included in an 1846 anthology of works by an array …

Chinese Canadian pianist Bruce Liu showcases versatility and an inventive approach to programming with his latest album. In the months leading up to the Chopin Competition, which he won in 2021, Liu found that many of his best musical ideas came to him in his dreams, and now, as a touring artist, he frequently finds himself working late at night. …

Legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida presents Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas, Opp. 109, 110 and 111, recorded live at Suntory Hall in Tokyo in October 2025. The album marks Uchida’s second and final recording of these works, nearly twenty years after her first acclaimed account in 2006. Widely regarded as one of the supreme Beethoven interpreters of our time, Uchida returns …

On her latest solo album, pianist and composer Inna Faliks reflects on the musical forces that have shaped her artistic voice. The program begins with two hand-written manuscripts in a backpack, two short pieces composed by a 10-year-old composer-pianist crossing the border from Ukraine to Slovakia, en route to Austria. “I was immigrating from Odesa, Ukraine, a Jewish refugee on …

A champion of living composers and Indigenous American music, pianist Roberta Rust presents evocative works by two Indigenous American composers. Louis W. Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee, 1931–2007) was a prolific composer and considered the first and foremost Native American composer of North American art music. The 21st century music of Connor Chee (Diné/Navajo, b. 1987) combines his classical piano training with his …

Following his acclaimed albums surveying works of Schubert and Brahms, pianist Adam Laloum turns his focus to the kaleidoscopic world of Robert Schumann. His fourth solo album – and sixth overall – on Harmonia Mundi features Schumann’s famous Kreisleriana with its outbursts of passion and reverie heard alongside the rarer Novelletten, a theatre of the intimate and fantastic. Celebrated for …

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 …

Lara Downes presents a deeply personal and timely musical journey shaped by an extraordinary two-year odyssey across the United States. Traveling from California to New York, from Vermont to Alabama, Downes uses music as both compass and passport – connecting with communities, sharing stories, and reflecting on the complexities of contemporary American life as she observes this 250th anniversary of …

Pianist Francesco Tristano releases his fourth album of Bach on the Naïve label with the complete set of Six French Suites, BWV 812–817. The album continues Tristano’s quest to record the composer’s complete catalogue of works for piano. Composed between 1722 and 1725, after the expansion of forms at work in the Six English Suites, the French Suites are built …

Fifty-five years after the release of their first recording, Katia and Marielle Labèque celebrate an extraordinary artistic journey with this new triple album, bringing together new recordings and archive selections spanning more than half a century. The Labèque sisters have consistently crossed boundaries between classical, contemporary, jazz, minimalism, and popular traditions. Commissioning works from composers such as Philip Glass and …

With a release timed to celebrate the United States Semiquincentennial, America/Beautiful is a five-volume collection conceived, commissioned, and performed by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, comprising 76 new piano works by American composers inspired by “America the Beautiful.” Kwon brings together a sweeping range of individual voices into a unified musical vision that invites listeners to experience the United …

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 …

The latest release from Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov combines the fire and virtuosity suggested by the album’s title (and cover), tempered with the musical depth and poetic communication for which he is equally acclaimed. Inferno begins with music by Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven and a teacher to Liszt best known for his technical exercises from The School of …

Pianist Idith Meshulam Korman and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, present the first complete modern recording of the surviving keyboard music of Marianna Martines (1744–1812): a composer, keyboard virtuoso, and cultural force in eighteenth-century Viennese musical life. Admired in her lifetime for her brilliance as both performer and composer, Martines occupied a central position within the city’s …

Inspired by William Ernest Henley’s (1849–1903) iconic poem of the same name, Stacy Garrop’s new piano concerto INVICTUS was commissioned by and written for Chicago native and multi-Grammy-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian, who performs it with the Chicago Philharmonic under Artistic Director Scott Speck. Despite a difficult life beleaguered with health issues, William Ernest Henley’s poem Invictus, Latin for “unconquered,” is …

Pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko made history as the first Canadian to win the Grand Prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal in 2024, the same year he was named Gold Medalist at the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition. His second solo album for Naxos is a souvenir of his recital from the 20th Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition (2022), …

Jonathan Biss concludes his Beethoven/5 commissioning project bringing to a close one of the most ambitious and innovative Beethoven release series of the 21st century. Over the course of five years, Biss selected a composer to write a piano concerto in response to one of Beethoven’s. The final installment of the project, featuring the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malin …

The years 2023-2028 mark 200 years since the final five years of the life of Franz Schubert, leading up to the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death in Vienna on November 19, 2028. Paying homage to this important event, baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz created SCHUBERT 200: a multi-genre international project aimed at a new, young generation of …

Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki returns to the concertos of Mozart a decade after recording Nos. 20 and 21 for his Deutsche Grammophon debut. Joined by the Bamberg Symphony directed by Manfred Honeck, Lisiecki’s latest recording presents a contrasting but complementary pair of works in E-flat major: Concertos Nos. 9 and 22. “Recording these two works was a dream of mine,” …

Isata Kanneh-Mason’s latest recording stems from a long and personal relationship with the composer’s music, which reached a major public milestone when she made her BBC Proms solo debut in 2023, performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Since she first heard the concerto at the age of 18, the work and has been a key part of Kanneh-Mason’s concert life. …

The third solo album from German pianist Esther Birringer surveys music by 15 different composers, bringing the masters such as Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and others into dialogue with modern voices like Lera Auerbach, Ludovico Einaudi, and Valentin Silvestrov. “The term spectrum is usually associated with physics: when white light passes through a prism, it breaks into a full rainbow of …

Cuban pianist-composer Aldo López-Gavilan presents world-premiere recordings of three of his own orchestral and solo works highlighting the composer’s distinctive musical voice—one that seamlessly blends classical virtuosity, improvisational freedom, jazz inflections, and Afro-Cuban rhythmic vitality. The title work is a three-movement piano concerto originally conceived during an improvisation session as a musical gift for the composer’s daughters. The album also …