The Piano Maven with Jed Distler

Bach's Goldberg Variations as played by Wilhelm Kempff, Andrei Gavrilov, Rosalyn Tureck, Lang Lang and Vikingur Ólafsson. Here are links to a few reviews: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15906/?search=1 , and https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15619/?search=1

André Watts was on great form for his 1986 Schwetzingen Festival all-Liszt recital. Check out my Classicstoday.com review here https://www.classicstoday.com/review/compelling-liszt-from-andre-watts/ ; and purchase the recording here https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Recital-1986-FRANZ-LISZT/dp/B007C7FCMK .

Hiroko Sasaki's excellent period instrument Debussy Preludes Books I & II, performed on an 1873 Pleyel piano. Official link to album is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ncaCuKo5ZE75c2NPWihaU3mgVpvQUJfG0

An all-Schumann six-CD compilation, issued by EMI in 2010 (catalog number 6 09047 2) with various pianists. Here's a link to Jed's Classicstoday.com review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15513/

A thorny and iconic pillar of serial piano music. Here's a link to Jed's recording of choice: https://www.amazon.com/Jean-Barraqu%C3%A9-Sonate-Pour-Piano/dp/B00N28RXJS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OYVNMOUPXMW2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l2qLCWfxi3Wj_-pqAHAYSQ.IZIVWyqcZqUhWVBFLqSJqllGqX8cthtJxvFEh-TQJHM&dib_tag=se&keywords=barraque+woodward&qid=1717342891&s=music&sprefix=barraque+woodward%2Cpopul...

A discussion of Arthur Rubinstein's three integral recorded versions of Chopin's Mazurkas. Here are download links for all three cycles: 1. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8079160--rubinstein-collection-vol-6-chopin-mazurkas-scherzos ; 2. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8079130--rubinstein-collection-vol-27-chopin-mazurkas-impromptus ; 3. https://www.prestomusic.com/c...

Arthur Rubinstein's historic Moscow recital on October 1st 1964. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K4ZwA2nQqI&t=27s . Link to purchased the 1999 Rubinstein Edition release: https://www.amazon.com/Rubinstein-Collection-Vol-62-Recital/dp/B000031WC2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZOTV6Z5C79SJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._CfJ8sm0Si00iHpCE7vvrXdt2qdxrGKteErXnQWVIanZ4ijr-L6X09ZushbsI78LrG18MB9-o23SgJsNusIHd8G...

Revisiting Alexis Weissenberg's Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georges Prêtre. Here's link to purchase a download: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8193029--rachmaninoff-piano-concerto-no-3-in-d-minor-op-30

A survey of Scarlatti recitals. Here's a link to one of my all-Scarlatti Between the Keys episodes: https://www.wwfm.org/show/between-the-keys-with-jed-distler/2023-12-20/snuggle-up-with-scarlatti . Here's a link to the Konstantin Scherbakov Scarlatti volume on Naxos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztt0sR-F4Q .

A link to my review: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-14861/?search=1 ; a link to the Schumann Concerto first movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aj7GjVfsq8

Ten essential Aldo Ciccolini recordings. Here's a link to Liszt Legend No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PBugDKGC7I

A friendly podcast guide to piano recordings with composer/pianist Jed Distler, producer and host of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning radio show Between the Keys, and longtime record reviewer for Classicstoday.com and Gramophone.