DESCRIPTION | CD1 Schumann: Piano Concerto (Chailly) Martha Argerich First CD release (previously digital only) + Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Argenta) Julius Katchen
CD2 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 (Haitink) • Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 (Previn) Vladimir Ashkenazy
CD3 Chopin: Études Op. 10 & 25; Trois nouvelles études Vladimir Ashkenazy
CD4 Rachmaninov: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 for two pianos; Symphonic Dances for two pianos Vladimir Ashkenazy; André Previn
CD5-6 Carnegie Hall Recital (30 March 1954) + Haydn: Sonatas 48, 52, 34, Fantasia Hob.XVII:4 Wilhelm Backhaus First international release of Carnegie Hall Recital
CD7 Chopin/Godowsky: Études & Waltzes Jorge Bolet
CD8 Schubert/Liszt: Song Transcriptions Jorge Bolet
CD9 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Temirkanov) • Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Ashkenazy) Shura Cherkassky
CD10 Kaleidoscope (1-13, 1974) • Rachmaninov: Five Pieces Shura Cherkassky Cherkassky’s first and last Decca recordings
CD11 Beethoven: Eroica Variations • Schubert: Moments musicaux • Britten: Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca; Mazurka elegiaca* Clifford Curzon; Benjamin Britten*
CD12 Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 (Britten) Clifford Curzon
CD13 Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24 (Kertész) Clifford Curzon
CD14 Gottschalk: Piano Music Ivan Davis Bonus: Carnival of the Animals (Rogé/Ortiz)
CD15 Two Piano Encores + Poulenc: Sonata for four hands; Milhaud: Scaramouche; Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations Bracha Eden; Alexander Tamir First CD release
CD16 The American Virtuoso Includes Grainger’s arrangements of Fauré and Gershwin Alan Feinberg
CD17 Brasiliero Nelson Freire
CD18 Chopin, Liszt, Ravel + Liszt: Gnomenreigen; Bach/Kempff: Siciliano from Flute Sonata No.2 Benjamin Grosvenor Grosvenor’s debut disc plus the first CD release of Liszt: Gnomenreigen and Bach/Kempff: Siciliano
CD19 Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Stein) Friedrich Gulda
CD20 The Early Recordings Friedrich Gulda First international CD release
CD21 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Grieg: Piano Concerto (Maag) + Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations (piano & orchestra version, Ashkenazy conducting) Peter Jablonski
CD22 Debussy: Préludes, Books I & II Jean-Rodolphe Kars Presented for the first time on one CD
CD23 Brahms: Hungarian Dances (Vol.1: solo, Vol.2 piano duet with Jean-Pierre Marty) Paganini Variations (1965 recording) Julius Katchen
CD24 Dohnányi: Nursery Variations; Rachmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody (Boult) + Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Solti) Julius Katchen
CD25 Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1&2 (Collins); Capriccio; Rondo (Martinon) Peter Katin
CD26 Bach Recital + Couperin, Rameau, Beethoven Handel Wilhelm Kempff First international CD release
CD27 Schubert: Sonata D.845; Sonata D.960 Wilhelm Kempff First international CD release
CD28 Albéniz: Ibéria (analogue recording) Alicia de Larrocha Presented for the first time on one CD
CD29 Liszt: Sonata in B minor • Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 • Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (Commisiona) Alicia de Larrocha
CD30 Ravel: Piano Concertos (Foster) • Fauré: Fantasie, Op.111 (Frühbeck de Burgos) • Franck: Variations symphoniques (Frühbeck de Burgos) Alicia de Larrocha
CD31 Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 12 and No.11 (Hogwood) Robert Levin (fortepiano)
CD32 Schumann: Piano Concerto (Ansermet) Dinu Lipatti Lipatti's only Decca recording. + Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Fitelberg) Eileen Joyce First-ever release of Joyce/Tchaikovsky (one of the first FFRR recordings)
CD33 Liszt: Piano Works Valentina Lisitsa
CD34 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 (Van Beinum) Kathleen Long First international CD release + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Zecchi) • Schumann: Waldszenen Clara Haskil Haskil's only recordings for Decca
CD35 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Foster) • Piano Concerto No. 5 (Mehta) Radu Lupu Piano Concerto No. 3 - Lupu's first concerto recording for Decca (Nov. 1970)
CD36 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Moonlight, Pathétique, Waldstein • 32 Variations in C minor
CD37 Brahms: Piano works • Theme and Variations from Sextet Radu Lupu
CD38 Khachaturian: Piano Concerto (Fistoulari) • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Martinon) Moura Lympany
CD39 Beethoven: Sonata Op. 111, Galuppi, Scarlatti Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Michelangeli's only recording for Decca + Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 Leonard Bernstein Bernstein's only recording as pianist for Decca
CD40 Beethoven: Violin Concerto, arr. Piano; Bach: Keyboard Concerto BWV 1054 (Saraste) • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, Op. 34 Olli Mustonen
CD41-42 Messiaen: Vingt régards sur l'Enfant-Jésus John Ogdon + Britten: Piano Concerto (Britten) Sviatoslav Richter Richter’s only concerto recording for Decca
CD43-44 Chopin: Complete music for piano and orchestra (Wit) Kun Woo Paik
CD45 Live in Zaragoza Jorge Luis Prats
CD46 Bartók: Piano Concertos 1-3 (Weller) Pascal Rogé First international CD release
CD47 Fauré: Piano works Pascal Rogé
CD48 Satie: Piano works Pascal Rogé
CD49 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mehta) Arthur Rubinstein Rubinstein's only Decca recording; his final concerto recording + Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1 for Piano & Orchestra (Weller) Pascal Rogé
CD50 Bach: Goldberg Variations András Schiff
CD51 Mozart: Piano music for four hands András Schiff; George Malcolm Performed on Mozart’s own fortepiano
CD52 Scarlatti: Sonatas András Schiff
CD53 Chopin: Piano works Jean-Yves Thibaudet Includes works performed on Chopin's Érard piano
CD54 Conversations with Bill Evans Jean-Yves Thibaudet + Nyman: from The Piano - 1. The heart asks pleasure first; 2. Silver fingered fling First international release of Nyman
CD55 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Variations on I got Rhythm; Piano Concerto in F (Alsop) Jean-Yves Thibaudet Jazz-band Grofé versions |