The Piano Maven with Jed Distler

Navigating the discographies of pianists Nikita Magaloff, Sviatoslav Richter and Paul Badura-Skoda can be quite the challenge! But persistence and patience sometimes result in musical rewards.

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Link to recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbDWs6hRBI8

Jed Distler discusses fifteen favorite recordings of Beethoven's last and largest piano work, the Variations on a Theme of DIabelli Op. 120. If you enjoy this special extended episode, please making a donation to The Piano Maven podcast by subscribing to our Substack page (https://jeddistlermusic.substack.com/about), which you also can access by clicking on the "Donate" button here: https://rss.com/podcasts/pianomaven

Link to Jed's 2015 Gramophone survey of the DIabellis on record: https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/45340/page/118?term=distler%20diabelli

Link to Daniel Höxer's recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F57E5D963F4C0E7

Link to an LP transfer of Charles Rosen's recording: https://archive.org/details/01diabellivariations120

A taste of Martino Tirimo's recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPxsk63yhWc

A taste of Cecile Ouuset's recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwwCou7OyA

Download Olli Mustonen's recording: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7934860--beethoven-diabelli-variations-op-120?srsltid=AfmBOoo9TGZRcrhgz5R5_dw1J1E-JUCosDoaSFnujaaabvWhaeN2djzn

Paul Baumgartner's recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxBzzFNvSU

Cycles devoted to Beethoven's Symphonies transcribed by Franz Liszt is the topic of today's episode.

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Link to Cyprien Katsaris playing the finale from the Beethoven/Liszt Symphony No. 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VoIu9l8F1g0&t=0s

Link to the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony four hands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNXt-6WDPzw

Episode notes

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Links to recordings:

Op. 109

Victor Schiøler - https://open.spotify.com/track/3X42SkRgXaqqsVTpsFq8DB

Tom Beghin - https://www.challengerecords.com/products/15045965241158/inside-the-hearing-machine

Op. 110

Dame Myra Hess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8QvIzsyew

Dina Ugorskaja - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQXjsincw7M

Op. 111

Howard Karp - https://open.spotify.com/track/4NPV1ivAcsoBb0rFoSnNQU

Annie Fischer - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8787043--beethoven-piano-sonatas-nos-18-32?srsltid=AfmBOoo1p7OHpwh08xv9TTyZqwYn1Z-1Ruce9jMmkawa81xlGEfN_bXT

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Link to Jed's Gramophone Collection article: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical%20music%20news/article/introducing-gramophone-s-january-2020-issue

Link to Between the Keys webcast featuring Peter Serkin's recording - https://www.wwfm.org/webcasts/2018-01-09/between-the-keys-january-9th-beethovens-last-sonatas-part-2

Link to Frederic Rzewski's live 1991 recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGyX5W9a_IE

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Links to recordings:

Geza Anda - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7969707--edition-geza-anda-vol-2-beethoven-brahms-liszt?srsltid=AfmBOoqce6sAp1zjr3XYJQaHf3OGxty89npMgiPIu2RLyTQE21lMEwqd

Martino Tirimo - https://open.spotify.com/track/7lklKogvwb6nFA53KGhdmr

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Links to Op. 81a recordings recommended in this episode:

Leopold Godowsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59lJ49YgTI

Van Cliburn - https://open.spotify.com/track/2QyCIgdKUvMi5So7gSOWop

Links to Op. 90 recordings recommended in this episode:

Ernst Levy - https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/levy2

Ivan Moravec - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OdGpYxJM9Q

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Links to recordings

Op. 78

Egon Petri - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8077711--egon-petri-the-columbia-electrola-recordings-1928-1951?srsltid=AfmBOorxVsyWiv3NNstO7mn35ExFJB09234HViYLhAWujhRLMFFn7qsp

Jonathan Biss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mBtU96nTb0

Op. 79

Andor Foldes - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7964437--andor-foldes-the-tono-recordings-1950-51?srsltid=AfmBOoqXF7KfVY7ybCMvlmCmqAW4ASPrCTlNoFiqyaqePr4z1LXIXeMy

Jeno Jando - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEV9eMpPPAA

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Links to recordings

William Murdoch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt4P9wdz8ts

Sviatoslav Richter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EffXt6Xh1O0

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Links to recordings:

Solomon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEZfhpWVzE

Friedrich Gulda - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asLzG34NlMY

and honorable mention to Alfred Brendel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqwdVN87sII

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Links to recordings

Rudolf Serkin - https://open.spotify.com/album/5elORNqSN11qOJ60HrPWSF

Ronald Brautigam - https://open.spotify.com/album/1X1ntecFqPEBm42ImTZW8q

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Links to recordings

Op. 49 No. 1 - Glenn Gould

https://open.spotify.com/track/0kJ8kCEMbMNHkyNDbgzJM2

Op. 49 No. 1 - François-Frédéric Guy https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8035204--beethoven-piano-sonatas-nos-1-32?srsltid=AfmBOorQtb3ExDEwPJ6E2GIrXmVBRKIz4wAq8agM28KdGA0TLld9n53-

Op. 49 No. 2 - Mari Kodama

https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/beethoven-piano-sonatas-nos-9-10-19-20-24-25/

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Links to recordings

Dino Ciani - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0r0MiJafY

Stewart Goodyear - https://open.spotify.com/track/6mNa53E6SIdfVQTvxGZxk6

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Links to recordings

Byron Janis - https://open.spotify.com/album/6XVXyW5qiwoX3OSL4oJIZR

Vladimir Ashkenazy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO-6EuMMMGw

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Links to recordings

Richard Goode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvIY-STmdR0

Rosita Renard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa4h0QtxnOI

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Links to recordings:

Wilhelm Backhaus - https://www.naxoslicensing.com/track/NTI2NTk5ODgtYzMyOTM0/

Alicia de Larrocha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzBVbU2JxY

Note – I accidentally posted this podcast episode out of order on Thursday January 9th. It is reposted Friday January 10th, in its proper place. Sorry for any confusion to those who may have heard this episode temporarily posted on Thursday January 9th. We're all back in order now.

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Links to Op. 27 No. 1: Jascha Spivakovsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CGomvyt5G4

Boris Giltburg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jixk8D9Cmcg

Links to Op. 27 No. 2 ("Moonlight)

Harold Bauer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kvwKmlRfvZlq8-VbqgZGbZdBlydSkm6Es

Misha Dichter - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7979707--brahms-piano-concerto-no-1?srsltid=AfmBOooeGTJ4V2j9S-oh4whFor-XyLRV74EuMBTLKLczSHFh15YimilG

Note – The Op. 27 Nos. 1 & 2 episode intended for Friday January 10th was accidentally posted today. But it will be re-posted tomorrow. Here is Thursday January 9th's Op. 26 episode!

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Links to Op. 26 recordings recommended in this episode:

Mark Hambourg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6Q9ZRRa54

Emil Gilels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPDuwkf53Y0

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Links to recordings:

Wilhelm Kempff - Second Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3nh6O68Nc

Maurizio Pollini - Second Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RTWxP2aHUk

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Links to recordings:

Op. 14 No. 1 First Movement: Yves Nat - https://open.spotify.com/track/3TywevOXNO8tjpL3nbnDyD

Op. 14 No. 1: Awadagin Pratt - https://awadagin.com/project/beethoven-piano-sonatas/

Op. 14 No. 2: Carl Friedberg - Link to Marston label release - https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/friedberg

Op. 14 No. 2 Second Movement: Claude Frank - Link to recording -https://open.spotify.com/track/3W7fFqX197jBaAuqeSPwZf

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Links to recordings:

Edwin Fischer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxFqMbLwJcc

Idil Biret - https://www.amazon.com/Archive-Sonatas-LUDWIG-VAN-BEETHOVEN/dp/B004807830

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Op. 10 No. 1 Third Movement: Igor Levitt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaVqj3UnTJg

Op. 10 No. 2 First Movement: Seymour Lipkin - https://open.spotify.com/track/5AHs7nJ2SDjei00SlcbDBc

Op. 10 No. 3: Vladimir Horowitz - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8121842--horowitz-plays-beethoven-sonatas?srsltid=AfmBOoofwutNA3kEtCjV1l9jpWRPonZt5cM2nT2i-m-YWBMbTYi_zmax

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Links to recordings:

Op. 7: Elly Ney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnqFt-BgcjY

Op. 7 first movement: Murray Perahia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O5eq86Zcgs

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Links to recordings:

Op. 2 No. 1, first movement: Artur Schnabel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMMek68TS8

Op. 2 No. 2, first movement: Bruce Hungerford - https://music.apple.com/us/song/piano-sonata-op-2-no-2-in-a-major-i-allegro-vivace/15783160

Op. 2 No. 3: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8055419--michelangeli-plays-bach-beethoven-schumann-brahms?srsltid=AfmBOoquCvuWHR3cW0XhYAiIFc8N6hM5My3k7Lc7KkGrrJFwUJJ_d3cO

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Our final Season One episode looks back on memorable 2024 piano releases and reissues.

Link to purchase Robert Goldsand: The Lost Recitals: https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/goldsand

Link to my review of François-Xavier Poizat’s Ravel collection: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/ravel-complete-works-with-piano-francois-xavier-poizat

Link to the Australian Eloquence Piano Library Deutsche Grammophon Edition: https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/releases-archive/piano-library-deutsche-grammophon-edition/

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Here's a great place to buy this download bundle: https://www.classicselectworld.com

Link to the recordings from Universal Music Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qCPYxstOI&list=OLAK5uy_mxX4zenymSurl_z67InQEjzHq98UTDNFk

Five recommendations for "stand-alone" recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major Op. 58"

Clara Haskil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5-AGnaw-Q

Edwin Fischer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiNzHXFgBQ

Ivan Moravec: https://www.amazon.com/Ivan-Morvec-Plays-Beethoven-Ludwig/dp/B000003LIU

Eugene Istomin: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8057350--eugene-istomin-the-concert-solo-recordings

Jerome Lowenthal: https://www.allmusic.com/album/beethoven-piano-concerto-no-4-cadenzas-mw0002627987

A rare 15-disc "Hommage" to a legendary and enigmatic pianist. Here's Jed Distler's Classicstoday.com review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-4159/

A guide to recorded editions of Conlon Nancarrow's innovative piano player studies. Here a links to listen and purchase:

All of the studies with scores: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmVJmQKdj4&list=PL18kPNSLqghqPQnayyzAspyu17HmXZtrz

The Other Minds CD edition: https://webstore.otherminds.org/products/om1012-15

The MDG CD Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Nancarrow-Complete-Studies-Player-Piano/dp/B0BCS92P48

Holiday gift ideas for piano lovers:

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Five stand-alone recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. Here are relevant links:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UujARIgHO04
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8OeXFvCph4&t=495s
3. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9640084--beethoven-piano-concerto-no-5-emperor
4. https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Piano-Concertos-Ludwig-van/dp/B0000029VK
5. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_-zrhZVF69Og2zPFOxojmjacRVLS_VFv

Some genuine piano "turkeys" to consider, or perhaps to avoid! Here are some helpful links. For Valery Afanassiev's Beethoven, check out Victor Carr, Jr.'s review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-11451/. For commentary about Rita Bouboulidi's Beethoven Sonata cycle, visit this link: https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=23626.0

Moszkowski's Piano Concerto has enjoyed considerable revival on disc. On this episode, Jed Distler explores the work's recorded discography. Here's a link to the slow movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iXawr9iVjY

Link to my Michelangeli Ravel & Rachmaninov Concerto review on Classicstoday.com: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-4053/

A classic album by an overlooked yet wonderful blues pianist: https://folkways.si.edu/little-brother-montgomery/farro-street-jive/blues/music/album/smithsonian

Here's a YouTube listening link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_njXNF1HPdGtmHcw7Pp8ZKk_mudzFYZAs4

A deep dive into Ivo Pogorelich's famous 1983 Deutsche Grammophon recording of Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit. Here are official YouTube links provided by Universal Music: 1. Ondine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIBOwg8NGmA; 2. Le Gibet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMd03CxPuk; 3. Scarbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACEbWKb1co

Here's a tribute to Radu Lupu on my weekly WWFM.org radio program Between the Keys, with special guest Donna Weng Friedman. This webcast features performances of Lupu in works that he otherwise did not record: https://www.wwfm.org/show/between-the-keys-with-jed-distler/2022-11-28/remembering-radu

Jed's Between the Keys episode about Rzewski's monumental masterpiece, with special guest pianist Ursula Oppens: https://soundcloud.com/jeddistler/episode-0032-the-people-united-at-40-2015-11-03?in=jeddistler/sets/between-the-keys-archive

Recommended recordings of Schumann's Fantasy in C Major Op. 17:

Sergio Fiorentino - https://open.spotify.com/album/2s19G2wc2xQtyBECvCoFQb

Wilhelm Backhaus -https://open.spotify.com/track/29T6fqDoyUQve6v6HYnFDo

Vladimir Horowitz -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjw6aTXXoZA

Leif Ove Andsnes -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA8GDGoPNg

Maurizio Pollini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dYgNt32YXo

Wilhelm Kempff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX-NVFOms6s

Nina Lelchuk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQXHJTnQME

Fabrizio Chiovetta - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBLCplR58TA&list=OLAK5uy_kgH7bDkviv6g1_aS955H77We7jheMAHoQ

Here's my Classicstoday.com review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/built-last-murray-perahias-masterful-hammerklavier/. And here's a review I wrote comparing both Murray Perahia and Yuja Wang performing the Hammerklavier in New York on consecutive weekends in New York: https://www.classicstoday.com/tale-two-hammerklaviers/

Ivo Pogorelich's 1990 New York recital was the stuff of legends, and you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR3LMPYyGbs

19 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies with 19 Pianists. Check out this fascinating and illuminating collection: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7975361--liszt-19-hungarian-rhapsodies-played-by-19-great-pianists

Link to purchase and download: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8026756--geza-anda-plays-tchaikovsky-brahms

Moura Lympany link: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/sublime-sounds-sacred-space/

Stephen Hough link to Hyperion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqD7AHQAKyk

Ivan Moravec plays Chopin Op. 48 No. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BaLVjoLUAQ

Link to listen to my Between the Keys episode "The Art of Françoise Chaffiaud: https://www.wwfm.org/show/between-the-keys-with-jed-distler/2023-02-27/the-art-of-francoise-chaffiaud

Link to the pianist's website: http://www.francoise-chaffiaud.com/en/

Link to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGStvi2-7w&list=OLAK5uy_luno1J37hB1jUqQck1p97KoSYYEoVVL4I

A 1962 video capturing Bud Powell in performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaSDinL6pC8

You purchase downloads for two of these Harmonia Mundi releases here:

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Link to listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kznrL4pH9V6hVKp0ZJoX7YuN57r97bAnU:

Link to sellers: https://www.discogs.com/release/15895932-Earl-Wild-Earl-Wild-At-88-Recital

Link to purchase: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9613664--the-vienna-recital

Link to purchase: https://matthewshipp.bandcamp.com/album/circular-temple

Link to Risto-Matti Marin's releases: https://www.ristomattimarin.fi/recordins/?lang=en

Link to Wojciech Kocyan’s website: https://www.wkocyan.com/

Link to Jed’s Classicstoday.com review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-9494/

Link to the recording on Wojciech Kocyan’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9NwD7Ek74nTs1ihodkKctw

Link to Jed’s Gramophone Collection Chopin Etudes Survey: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/chopin-s-etudes-a-deep-dive-into-the-best-recordings

Links to selected recordings:

1. https://musicandarts.com/product/zayas-plays-chopin-12-a%C2%89tudes-op-10-12-a%C2%89tudes-op-25-trois-nouvelles-a%C2%89tudes-juana-zayas-pianist/

2. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9264484--cziffra-plays-chopin

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl-WVW02GBg

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4aeV1_Fhgc

Schubert D. 894 First movement link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDqnBMKPs4;

Links to recordings: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7999573--jan-levoslav-bella-piano-works; https://www.peterpazicky.com/j%C3%A1n-levoslav-bella-complete-piano-w

Link to David Hurwitz video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ-FU2UPhVA

Link to Jed Distler review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/big-boxes-virtuoso-piano-etudes/

Link to purchase: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/v/virtuoso-piano-etudes/

Link to digital files: https://www.lyradb.org/album/5f85642422009c0017b2bc17?piece=f861ed3ca2c04a14946f310f

Link to purchase this recording: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8053750--brahms-piano-sonata-in-f-minor

https://www.meloclassic.com/home/lelia-gousseau/

Has Van Cliburn's million selling 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 stood the test of time? Live performance from the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qROema2MDI. Link to the RCA studio recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvenFtOB4-s

A sensitive and cultivated Bach recital from Dimitri Malignan. Link to purchase the CD: https://www.amazon.com/Peregrinations-J-S-Bach-CD-Dimitri-Malignan/dp/B09QRLBF8J. Link to his final round 2021 Montreal Competition performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8on0pGGTsP4.

Bach's Goldberg Variations as played by Wilhelm Kempff, Andrei Gavrilov, Rosalyn Tureck, Lang Lang and Vikingur Ólafsson. Here are links to a few reviews: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15906/?search=1, and https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15619/?search=1

André Watts was on great form for his 1986 Schwetzingen Festival all-Liszt recital. Check out my Classicstoday.com review here https://www.classicstoday.com/review/compelling-liszt-from-andre-watts/; and purchase the recording here https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Recital-1986-FRANZ-LISZT/dp/B007C7FCMK.

Hiroko Sasaki's excellent period instrument Debussy Preludes Books I & II, performed on an 1873 Pleyel piano. Official link to album is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ncaCuKo5ZE75c2NPWihaU3mgVpvQUJfG0

An all-Schumann six-CD compilation, issued by EMI in 2010 (catalog number 6 09047 2) with various pianists. Here's a link to Jed's Classicstoday.com review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15513/

A thorny and iconic pillar of serial piano music. Here's a link to Jed's recording of choice: https://www.amazon.com/Jean-Barraqu%C3%A9-Sonate-Pour-Piano/dp/B00N28RXJS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OYVNMOUPXMW2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l2qLCWfxi3Wj_-pqAHAYSQ.IZIVWyqcZqUhWVBFLqSJqllGqX8cthtJxvFEh-TQJHM&dib_tag=se&keywords=barraque+woodward&qid=1717342891&s=music&sprefix=barraque+woodward%2Cpopular%2C96&sr=1-1

A discussion of Arthur Rubinstein's three integral recorded versions of Chopin's Mazurkas. Here are download links for all three cycles: 1. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8079160--rubinstein-collection-vol-6-chopin-mazurkas-scherzos; 2. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8079130--rubinstein-collection-vol-27-chopin-mazurkas-impromptus; 3. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7933105--rubinstein-collection-vol-50-chopin-51-mazurkas

Arthur Rubinstein's historic Moscow recital on October 1st 1964. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K4ZwA2nQqI&t=27s. Link to purchased the 1999 Rubinstein Edition release: https://www.amazon.com/Rubinstein-Collection-Vol-62-Recital/dp/B000031WC2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZOTV6Z5C79SJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._CfJ8sm0Si00iHpCE7vvrXdt2qdxrGKteErXnQWVIanZ4ijr-L6X09ZushbsI78LrG18MB9-o23SgJsNusIHd8Gj3klzZk6Z2nt3olyd-86WFiRSqWbmNPIWm52GDXPqnO9gQFgGpz9JQ5NTi_LOuQ.Hq7Sj6yl_9mwjbtzA4sws7SuBMR6RkuFfRMSHtWrFig&dib_tag=se&keywords=moscow+rubinstein&qid=1717273386&s=music&sprefix=moscow+rubinstein%2Cpopular%2C83&sr=1-1

Revisiting Alexis Weissenberg's Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georges Prêtre. Here's link to purchase a download: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8193029--rachmaninoff-piano-concerto-no-3-in-d-minor-op-30

A survey of Scarlatti recitals. Here's a link to one of my all-Scarlatti Between the Keys episodes: https://www.wwfm.org/show/between-the-keys-with-jed-distler/2023-12-20/snuggle-up-with-scarlatti. Here's a link to the Konstantin Scherbakov Scarlatti volume on Naxos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztt0sR-F4Q.

A link to my review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-14861/?search=1; a link to the Schumann Concerto first movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aj7GjVfsq8

Ten essential Aldo Ciccolini recordings. Here's a link to Liszt Legend No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PBugDKGC7I

A friendly podcast guide to piano recordings with composer/pianist Jed Distler, producer and host of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning radio show Between the Keys, and longtime record reviewer for Classicstoday.com and Gramophone.