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Brazilian Soprano Annette Celine and pianist Felicja Blumental perform the beautiful songs of Fryderyck Chopin. -
Pianist, Felicja Blumental is joined by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Wagner to perform Beethoven's popular Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 37 and No. 4 in G major, Op. 58. -
Greatly admired for her interpretations of Chopin and Mozart, Felicja Blumental also recorded many works for piano and orchestra including the piano version of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Here she performs two of his more popular Piano Concertos. -
This disc presents the greatest of Beethoven's piano concertos - the Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 73 “Emperor,” together with the early and partially complete early Piano Concerto in E flat Wo0, composed when Beethoven was a teenager, demonstrating the work of a talented youth learning his craft. -
Pianist Felicja Blumental explores the vibrant repertoire of Karol Szymanowski (who taught the young Blumental composition) and fellow Pole Fryderyk Chopin, whose music was a fundamental part of Felicja Blumental's recording career which brought her great acclaim. -
The repertoire here is a reminder of Felicja Blumental’s protean abilities. Here, she resurrects a piano concerto/patriotic fantasy by Paderewski before assuming the central role on harpsichord for Penderecki's Partita, dedicated to her by the composer. -
This CD features the piano concertos of Mozart and his contemporary Leopold Kozeluch, whose concerto Felicja Blumental performed with her own cadenza. Since composing this concerto, many of Kozeluch’s achievements have been overshadowed by Beethoven. -
If you have never heard Moniuszko’s songs, rare Pergolesi arias or Villa-Lobos’ beautiful Bachianas No. 5, then this album is a must have. This beautiful collection of songs also features works by Niewiadomski, Scarlatti, Chopin, Strauss and Weill. -
Performed by Felicja Blumental, this solo piano collection includes piano rarities such as Moniuszko's Spinning Girl, Szymanowski's Etudes and Preludes, Kabalewski and Kuhlau's Sonatines and Villa-Lobos' The Three Maries among others. -
This CD presents the piano concertos of Manfredini and Paisiello who both spent some years at the Russian Court of the mighty Catherine the Great, where they composed music to reflect Catherine’s wealth and power including marches, dance music and didactic works for the court’s pleasure. -
This CD brings back into the light concertos by talented composers Viotti and Platti. Viotti’s masterpiece is said to be a reworked violin concerto by Daniel Steibelt and the two Platti concertos curiously lay gathering dust for around 200 years. -
Variations presents Carl Czerny’s experiments on a theme by Haydn (recognised as the German national anthem), the one and only existing piano concerto by Karl Stamitz and Vogler’s Variations based on an C18th nursery song, ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow’.
