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Piano Classics A record label featuring piano solo and piano concerto recordings only. Visit our website to view ou

06/12/2025

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03/12/2025

Some great Piano Classics titles as well!

New recordings of neglected but compelling piano works from the spring of Giuseppe Martucci’s career.Martucci composed a...
21/10/2025

New recordings of neglected but compelling piano works from the spring of Giuseppe Martucci’s career.
Martucci composed all the pieces on this album during the year 1876. As Ilaria Sinicropi observes in her booklet essay, Martucci was ‘a composer in the making’, in the first flush of his talent. In finding his own voice for instrumental composition, he looked naturally northwards, to the other side of the Alps, and in particular to Schumann and to Brahms, with their strong narrative arcs, their expansion of traditional models such as sonata form and their richly chromatic but disciplined harmony.
The more adventurous language of the Capriccio e Serenata Op.57 was yet to come. Yet the first movement of the Piano Sonata - mysteriously neglected by pianists until now, with no other recordings in the current catalogue - already shows Martucci stretching his wings, and adapting the fantasy-style of Schumann to the ends of his own lyrical style. Sinicropi hears within it a powerful evocation of nature in the mould of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, and it prefigures the imposing intensity of expression in the third-movement Andante, with a scintillating Scherzo to serve as intermezzo and a Lisztian finale which synthesizes elements of chorale, fugue and rondo.

The suite of Four Pieces Op.31 do not venture into the Sonata’s ambitious terrain, cast by and large in a vein of gentle introspection, but they too reward close listening (which again is only now possible with Ilaria Sinicropi’s recording). In fact the opening Nocturne is the most developed piece of the quartet, belying its title with fiery outbursts and unexpected pauses. The following barcarolle and Romance may be heard as songs without words in a stylish emulation of Mendelssohn, before a final ‘Dolce Ricardo's (Sweet Memory) returns to the tripartite but eventful form of the Nocturne.
Finally, the Mazurka Op.35 makes a graceful encore, ‘deeply rooted in the Italian tradition and the expressive style typical of mannerism,’ according to Ilaria Sinicropi. Her affinity with this music is abundantly clear from her playing as well as her writing, and with this album she makes an auspicious debut on Piano Classics, which is sure to attract wider attention.

https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/m/martucci-piano-sonata-4-piano-pieces-op31-mazurka-op35/

Ekaterina Litvintseva, Iconic Ballets for Piano!Ervaar een magische avond in de Edesche Concertzaal met de piano solo ve...
21/10/2025

Ekaterina Litvintseva, Iconic Ballets for Piano!

Ervaar een magische avond in de Edesche Concertzaal met de piano solo vertolkingen van Tchaikovsky's Notenkraker tot Stravinsky's Vuurvogel door de wereldvermaarde pianiste Ekaterina Litvintseva!

Laat je meevoeren door de betoverende klanken van Iconic Ballets for Piano, waarin pianiste Ekaterina Litvintseva drie iconische balletwerken vertolkt: Tchaikovsky’s Notenkraker, Prokofjevs Romeo & Julia en Stravinsky’s De Vuurvogel. Een uniek concert vol virtuositeit, Russische diepgang en Europese finesse – én de feestelijke presentatie van haar nieuwe cd op het label Piano Classics.

Mét medewerking van acteur/verteller Tycho Francis die je meeneemt naar de verhalen achter deze iconische balletten!

Edesche Concertzaal te Ede
Zaterdag 25 oktober - 20:00 uur

TICKETS:
https://www.edescheconcertzaal.nl/concerten/2325-ekaterina-litvintseva-piano-iconic-ballets-for-piano-tsjaikovski-prokofjev-stravinski

CD: https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/i/iconic-ballet-music-for-piano/

Some fireworks on the Piano Classics release of Ekaterina Litvintseva’s Iconic Ballet Music for Piano!
18/10/2025

Some fireworks on the Piano Classics release of Ekaterina Litvintseva’s Iconic Ballet Music for Piano!

17/10/2025

Very touched by this review in International Piano for the latest disc in the Alkan series - “Reminiscent of Earl Wild and Ivan Davis in their prime, needing little more than a day to record 73 minutes, Viner has the ideal measure of this repertory, living out its lyricism and fire; his mellifluous touch, purling velocity, graceful phrasing and exultant, open-throttle climaxes are enriching and clarifying.”

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