The Piano Maven with Jed Distler

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.