Piano Listening

Spring 2025 - Listening List

  • Angela Hewitt - Bach: 2-Part Inventions, 3-Part Sinfonias

  • Arthur Rubinstein - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 8, 14, 23, 26

  • Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 17 & 18

  • Juana Zayas - Chopin: Etudes, Opp. 10 & 25 (1983)

  • György Cziffra - Liszt: Études D'execution Trascendante & Wagner: Tannhäuser, Ouverture

  • Kathryn Stott - Faure: Piano Selection

  • Alicia de Larrocha - Albéniz: Ibéria - Navarra - Suite Española

  • Van Cliburn, Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra & Kirill Kondrashin - Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos

  • Ruth Laredo - Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11 - 5 Preludes, Op. 74 - Poem Op. 32

  • Sarah Cahill - Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants

  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra & André Previn - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 

  • Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer & Mischa Maisky - Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky: Piano Trios

  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (50th Anniversary Legacy Edition)

  • Herbie Hancock - The Piano

  • Hiromi - Voice (feat. Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips)

Fall 2024 - Listening List

  • Sviatoslav Richter - J.S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier 

  • Clara Haskell - Scarlatti & Schubert: Piano Sonatas 

  • Hélène Grimaud & Camerata Salzburg - The Messenger (Extended Version)

  • Krystian Zimerman, Leonard Bernstein & Vienna Philharmonic - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" 

  • Sontraud Speidel - Fanny Hensel: Piano Works

  • Grigory Sokolov - Chopin: Préludes

  • Radu Lupu - Brahms Two Rhapsodies op, 79 Piano Pieces, Opp.117, 118, 119

  • Olga Kern - Rachmaninov: Sonata No.2 - Balakirev: Islamey

  • The Florestan Trio - Debussy, Fauré & Ravel: Piano Trios

  • Isata Kennah Mason - Summertime

  • Art Tatum - The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 3

  • Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train (Expanded Edition)

  • Bill Evans - Alone (Expanded)

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi - The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 36

Summer 2024 - Listening List

  • Glenn Gould - Bach: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1955 Recording, Rechannelled for Stereo)

  • Mitsuko Uchida - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30, 31 & 32

  • Maria João Pires - Chopin: The Nocturnes

  • Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin: Ballades, Scherzi, Tarantelle

  • Martha Argerich - Debut Recital

  • Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz in Moscow

  • Claudio Arrau  - Debussy: Pour le piano, Estampes & Images (Columbia)

  • Yuja Wang - Transformation

  • McCoy Tyner - Revelations (Live)

  • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland

  • Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (Live)

  • Mary Lou Williams - Solo Recital: Montreux Jazz Festival 1978 (Live At Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, CH / July 16, 1978)

  • Vanessa Wagner - Study of the Invisibl