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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".

Thanks for the help. 

I would dearly love to get hold of copies of the pieces that Eileen Joyce plays (Polka Caprice op1/3 and Himmelgesang op2/1). I've been looking off and on since I first heard them. Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction.
Rob

Ingolf Wunder plays his Valse fantaisie op49 on the album "300".
Koczalski plays his own Praeludium, Impression op75 and Renata waltz on Marston 52063 and his Impromptu op124 on Archiphon ARC-119/20.
Selene records have his Scherzo op131 on Koczalski vol7, several piano pieces on vol2 (preludes, sonatina, Polish suite etc), vol3 (waltz, nocturne, suite etc), vol4 has songs and vol1 has mazurkas, etude and waltz.
Acte Prealable has also recorded vol1 of his chamber works (AP0383).

Looking again at the front cover I notice it includes the first two concertos but says "Piano Concertos 1". I take this to be volume 1 so I think we can assume the other concertos are to be recorded. Here's hoping.
Rob

[Faust Fantaisie]

Have really enjoyed what I have heard of this (bought it on emusic).

If there is a 3rd disc planned I would love to hear the Faust Fantaisie by Moriz Rosenthal - not sure why this has been ignored when his Strauss transcritions and original works (Papillons and the F sharp Prelude) have had several outings.

Re the Halka Fantaisie of Tausig. Would love to hear a great commercial recording of this. Ponti is good but in poor sound and oft-times charmless and Cimirro is OK but poor in the final section and has some odd tempos in single bars. Roberto Capello's live recording remains my go-to version.

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

Regarding Hough's speeds he certainly has a precedent - listen to Saint-Saens playing Africa or the Rhapsodie d'Auvergne; I never had the impression that he was playing like this to fit within the recording time available.

Love it.

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

I have just noticed on clicmusique.com that Hyperion's next RPC - volume 72 - is Potter's 2nd and 4th Concertos and the Bravura variations on a theme of Rossini. Didn't expect that.