Piano (Nipper Series)

Two CDs filled with treasures for the piano, drawn from the world’s greatest catalogue of recorded music. From hushed intimacy to spectacular virtuosity, and from Bach to Gershwin – by way of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Rachmaninov and more – this collection of pieces demonstrates the piano’s astonishing range of colour and emotion in the hands of supreme performers.

CD1: 1 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 (Moderato) · Leif Ove Andsnes • 2 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 (Romanze) · Yuri Egorov • 3 Beethoven Bagatelle ‘Für Elise’ · François-René Duchâble • 4 Schubert Impromptu D.899 No. 3 · Maria-João Pires • 5 Haydn Piano Sonata No. 62 (Finale) · Leif Ove Andsnes • 6 Brahms Intermezzo Op. 119 No. 3 · Nicholas Angelich • 7 Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op. 67 No. 2 · Alexandre Tharaud • 8 Chopin Nocturne No. 4 ·  Martha Argerich • 9 Liszt Liebestraum No. 3 · Leif Ove Andsnes • 10 Grieg Lyric Pieces (Wedding Day at Troldhaugen) • 11 Couperin Le tic-toc-choc, ou Les maillotins · Alexandre Tharaud • 12 Debussy Children’s Corner (Golliwog’s Cake-Walk) · Samson François • 13 Ravel Piano Concerto (Adagio assai) · Hélène Grimaud • 14 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue · André Previn

CD2: 1 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 ‘Pathétique’ (Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio) · Stephen Kovacevich • 2 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ (Adagio un poco mosso) · Hans Richter-Haaser • 3 Chopin Nocturne No. 20 · Alexandre Tharaud • 4 Debussy Suite bergamasque (Passepied) · Samson François • 5 Granados Goyescas (Quejas o La maja y el ruiseñor) · Jean-François Heisser • 6 Falla Noches en los jardines de España (Danza lejana) · Martha Argerich • 7 Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 · Jean-Philippe Collard • 8 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 · Georges Cziffra • 9 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 (Andante – Allegro) · Vladimir Krainev • 10 Schubert Impromptu D. 899 No. 2 · David Fray • 11 Tchaikovsky The Seasons (Barcarolle) · Mikhail Pletnev • 12 Bach Keyboard Concerto BWV 1052 (Adagio) · David Fray • 13 Bach ‘Jesu bleibet meine Freude’ · Dinu Lipatti