Contemporary Composition / Piano

Premiere recordings of three works by Israeli composer Gideon Lewensohn: the Piano Quintet and Odradek Quartet played by the Auryn Quartett and Alexander Lonquich (Zürich, February 2001), and the Postlude for piano, also heard played by Ora Rotem Nel…

Alexei Lubimov plays ten piano elegies from C.P.E. Bach, Liszt, Glinka, Chopin, Debussy and Bartók to Cage, Mansurian and Silvestrov; recorded December 2000 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Alexei Lubimov plays Stravinsky's Serenade in A and piano sonatas by Shostakovich (No. 2), Prokofiev (No. 7) and Scriabin (No. 9), recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, in May 1998 and December 2000, produced by Manfred Eicher.

György and Márta Kurtág play 30 pieces from his piano cycle Játékok (Games) and four of his Bach transcriptions, for two and four hands. Recorded July 1996 in the Mozart-Saal, Wiener Konzerthaus, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Keith Jarrett plays seven keyboard suites by Georg Friedrich Händel on piano, recorded in September 1993 at the State University of New York, Purchase, produced by Manfred Eicher and released by ECM New Series in 1995.

Aki Takahashi plays Giacinto Scelsi's piano works in 2005 recordings, mostly pieces she prepared with the composer, including the Quattro Illustrazioni depicting the incarnations of Vishnu.

Keith Jarrett's composition Ritual for solo piano, played by Dennis Russell Davies. Recorded in June 1977 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, produced by Manfred Eicher, released as ECM 1112 in 1982.

Charlemagne Palestine live at the Sorbonne chapel in 1979, playing two Bösendorfer Imperial pianos: forty minutes of slowly accumulating intervals and ringing overtones. Hand-made CD in a velvet box designed by Palestine.

Concert film by Isabelle Soulard: Márta and György Kurtág play pieces from Játékok and Kurtág's Bach transcriptions for piano four hands, Cité de la musique, Paris, 22 September 2012, in memory of Haydée Charbagi.