Since you are interested in Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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W. A. MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mozart / Schumann: Fantaisies Piotr Anderszewski, piano [ Warner Classics CD / CD/DVD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Convincing, companionable, persuasive, hugely intelligent, unpredictable, totally without cliché. I know I shall always want to listen to Anderszewski" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Instrumental |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "'One of the finest accounts of Brahms's late piano works on record, one that stands head and shoulders above most contenders in an ever-growing catalogue." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Instrumental |
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY / ARNO BABAJANIAN
Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trio Vadim Gluzman (violin), Johannes Moser (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "The playing is superb, Gluzman and Moser intoning the impassioned opening elegy [of the Tchaikovsky] with grave authority before Sudbin takes over with all his mercurial brilliance and the music takes flight...outstanding recording." - The Observer |
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SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN
Warsaw & Salzburg Recitals [recorded 2013] Grigory Sokolov (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] "An idiosyncratic but beautifully co-ordinated production, this fine recital, and I highly recommend it." (AudAud.com) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piano Book Lang Lang (piano) [ Deutche Grammophon / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] Lang Lang returns with his brand new solo album 'Piano Book' - a collection of pieces which first inspired him to play the piano and led him on his path to international stardom. Lang Lang says: "I want to take every music lover on a journey... |
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J. S. BACH
Murray Perahia plays Bach: The complete recordings Murray Perahia (piano) / Academy of St Martins in the Fields [ Sony Music / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "No mannerisms, no distractions, no self-serving virtuosity - just the most lucid and moving recording yet of this work." (Gramophone, 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - Instrumental for Goldbergs) |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / etc Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Decca / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns with Elgar, a brand new album of works anchored around Elgar's Cello Concerto - arguably the best-known work in the classical canon written for solo cello. |
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J. S. BACH
Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (2017 recording) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2018 ] "I don't think he has ever made a greater recording and his personal booklet notes help provide a conceptual setting for his playing." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2018 |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] "Hope Amid Tears", the new album by Yo-Yo Ma together with his friend and pianist Emanuel Ax, presents Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano in the order in which they were composed, tracing an important arc in Beethoven's development. |