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Beyond excited to notice this little delight on Toccataclassics pipeline page. Two Cds - All the Preludes on CD1 and assorted solos and transcriptions on CD2.

A slight weirdness is that the Fairy Tale op16 no 1 is mentioned but nothing else of op16; was there and op16 no.2 or higher? The Etude appasionato is op3 I think.

https://toccataclassics.com/pipeline/

https://acteprealable.com/produkt/ap0523/

This looks tempting. Now if we could just have the complete solo piano and transcriptions...

I know it isn't a real rarity nowadays but nice to see that Danacord will be issuing a 4th set of Victor Schioler recordings containing a live recording of Palmgren's beautiful Piano Concerto no.2 (the River). The set also apparently contains Nielsen's Violin Sonata op9 but lists it with orchestra so there is some kind of misprint somewhere.

https://www.danacord.dk/frmsets/records/867-68-r.html

Happened to hear this on the drive home yesterday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051y5

A concert dedicated to the Boulanger sisters. Lili's glorious works and an unpublished Fantaisie Variee for piano and orchestra written by Nadia for her "companion" Raoul Pugno. Lovely music and a great find in the Nadia Boulanger. I hope Dariescu has an opportunity to record this work.

I don't know if anyone is collecting these. I have two volumes and they are very enjoyable listening.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8538228--rontgen-piano-music-vol-4

Rob

Noted on the "coming soon" page of Acte Prealable website:-

http://www.acteprealable.com/albums/soon_ap0431.html

Three volumes of piano music by Dubois played by Artur Cimirro (the others are 0432 and 0433).

Will get all three when I'm available but I hope the editing is a bit better on these. There were occasional misreading of notes on his Tausig (Impromptu op1a several bars around the end of the middle section AC plays G naturals instead of G flats is my biggest annoyance) and Zichy discs (I can't listen to the Chopin Polonaise transcription. The original is such a well known piece in any case I can't understand how no-one seems to have picked up on the many wrong readings in all sections).

Rob

Not an unsung but the works are (we assume as the title is "new discoveries volume 4")

http://www.clicmusique.com/liszt-pieces-retrouvees-vol-howard-p-100907.html?osCsid=ed6416658f04dfdfabff77d1c10fdf01

This little beauty popped up on emusic yesterday without any fanfare

Hans Seeling Piano works played by Jouni Somero

Contents are : Barcarole op.9, Romance op.8/2, Lorely op.2, 12 Concert-Etudes op.10

Don't think this has been recorded before other than the Etude op10/12 which Backhaus made a splendid recording of in 1909.

Other than emusic I imagine it will appear on FC-records (fcrecords.fi) or fuga.fi before too long.

Not the rarest music out there but some might be interested

Suk Piano music played by Jonathan Plowright

http://www.clicmusique.com/suk-oeuvres-pour-piano-plowright-p-100620.html?osCsid=ed6416658f04dfdfabff77d1c10fdf01

No details of actual contents yet but noticed this at Presto classical

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8426462--gounod-piano-works

Rob

I'm just going to say "oooh!" and leave it at that...

http://www.clicmusique.com/stephen-hough-dream-album-oeuvres-pour-piano-p-100513.html?osCsid=ed6416658f04dfdfabff77d1c10fdf01

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paganini-Piano-Goran-Flipec-Grand/dp/B079BJKM3C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517587627&sr=8-1&keywords=paganini+at+the+piano

A new disc featuring Paganini transcriptions. I already have the Hambourg set in my collection (Tobias Bigger on Antes edition so not the world premiere that Grand Piano state) and the Friedman (I have Raekallio, Tryon, Froundjian and Johansen who plays hs own coda) however I believe most of the others are mostly new to the catalogue. The Busoni has been recorded before but maybe not the 1925 version (Groschopp on Capriccio plays the 1909 version).

I'm looking forward to hearing the Zadora - I think in this instance they are correct to put "world premiere recordings".

No details yet but noticed this on Hyperion's site

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/ym.asp?ym=2018_01

I have just noticed this on Acte Prealable website. I didn't even know he had written them...

"The world premiere recording of the First and Second Piano Concertos by Raul Koczalski took place on July 13th and 14th in Rzeszów. These works have been recently discovered by Jan A. Jarnicki. The world premiere of the First Concerto took place last year in Słupsk (performed by the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra), during the closing concert of the Polish Pianism Festival, the Second Concerto was first performed on June 17th 2017 in Radziejowice (by Sinfonia Varsovia). Both performances were done by phenomenal artists: the superb Polish pianist Joanna Lawrynowicz and the outstanding Italian conductor Massimiliano Caldi. The same artists, together with the Filharmonia Podkarpacka, realized the first recording in history of the above mentioned pieces. The recording will be available on CD later this year."

Rob

I notice this release on clicmusique.com 

http://www.clicmusique.com/eduard-kunneke-concerto-pour-piano-serenade-zigeunerweisen-triendl-theis-p-99057.html?osCsid=ed6416658f04dfdfabff77d1c10fdf01

What confuses me is this paragraph:

For example, his Piano Concerto is a work very much displaying higher aspirations and qualifying as top-quality musical entertainment. His concerto is certainly the most original and spirited example of a genre of works engaging in dialogue with classicism and swing in the 1920s and including contributions by Gershwin and Ravel.

Listening to the Concerto as recorded by Stech I'm hearing a big, romantic piano concerto - not hearing classicism or swing/Ravel or Gershwin. Is this a different piano concerto does anyone know?
Rob

According to the Grand Piano 2017 catalogue a new (i.e soon to be released) release will be Cleve's 3rd and 4th piano concertos; the 3rd in its version for sextet.
It doesn't mention volume 1 that I can see do not sure if the other concertos will follow. Would love to hear more of the solo piano music as well. There is only to my knowledge the old Norwegian LP which coupled the sonata and a couple more pieces with the 4th concerto - an excellent disc and I have a couple more pieces on a Scandanavian collection but that's it.
Rob

Just noticed this:

Sam Haywood playing Stanford

http://www.clicmusique.com/charles-villiers-stanford-preludes-pour-piano-haywood-p-98075.html?osCsid=07b30c592a06d710b6eab657bd9ce6df

No full details as yet but...

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/ym.asp?ym=2017_05

http://www.acteprealable.com/albums/soon_ap0371.html

http://www.acteprealable.com/albums/soon_ap0372.html

Two very interesting CDs of original works and transcriptions (all left hand) by Liszt pupil and one-handed pianist Geza Zichy.

Announced for November release on Hyperion website- Hill and Boyle concertos with Piers Lane.