Carlo Grante is the first pianist to have recorded Domenico Scarlatti's complete keyboard sonatas on a modern concert grand piano. Issued by Music & Arts in six volumes totaling 34 CDs, Jed explores Grante's monumental achievement on this episode of The Piano Maven.

Here's a link to Volume 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WWSLwOjjqY&list=PLhQbBbPdSZ2wycF4j85kfeNYL7sPNFHuS

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Jed discusses Angela Hewitt's 2018 remake of the Six Keyboard Partitas by J.S. Bach.

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Partita No. 5: Preambulum (recorded 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1yNfGVM2E&list=PLPXd6_jpWSlfkR9JT-aCF-MxovL5gwr08&index=30

Partita No. 5: Preambulum (recorded 2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHcLr_XPXw

Partita No. 4: Sarabande (recorded 2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe-SnPu7ys&list=PLrhvjDLG-KHCDdSXL_g5WFB7aTZ5R3ksF&index=5

Partita No. 4: Sarabande (recorded 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHs4MHzG16s

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Schubert Duo 1st Mvt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1eK9WDenQA

Beethoven Op. 30 No. 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxv9mac01c

Grieg Sonata No. 3 Op. 45 Mvt. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxvH9mRXvs

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Link to purchase Rudolf Buchbinder's 1986 EMI Chopin disc - https://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Piano-Works-Rudolf-Buchbinder/dp/B000239B96

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Here’s Jed’s Gramophone Cliburn Competition Blog about Alexei Sultanov - https://www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/jed-distler-s-cliburn-blog-no-16-alexei-sultanov-reconsidered

Link to purchase Sultanov’s Rachmaninov Sonata No. 2, Prokofiev SOnata No. 7 and Scriabin Sonata No. 5 - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7948204--rachmaninov-prokofiev-scriabin-piano-sonatas

Chopin's uniquely hypnotic Berceuse has been lucky on disc, and Jed discusses seventeen pianists who've made memorable recorded versions. Here are links to some of them:

Josef Hofmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzqGLmLlMHY&t=3s

Alfred Cortot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqSDOLmfk30

Solomon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O8rbQ6Hi2M

Wilhelm Kempff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKxP_4byAk

Walter Gieseking (both versions) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccf2FSvkzWA

Vladimir Ashkenazy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dhVzkZk7xc

Maurizio Pollini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zqEHYlrmjc

Marc-André Hamelin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMZjygExZ3I

Ruth Slenczynska - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txR_P7TUf2I

Leon Fleisher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMs5gdORZnA

Evgeny Kissin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRQsDTvxgi8

Lesson with Garrick Ohlsson - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=garrick+chopin+berceuse

Tatiana Shebanova (period instrument recording) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogcn2JqJSak

Murray Perahia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OizkT4wRjdo

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The third and arguably final of three episodes discussing big box sets featuring pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is devoted to his Deutsche Grammophon recordings.

You can find some of these on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arturobenedettimichelangel8450

And while this box set may be hard to source, all of the individual recordings are readily available from the usual outlets.

Jed discusses the 26-CD box set Jorge Bolet: The Complete Decca Recordings on this episode.

Here are several samples:

Franck - Prelude, Chorale & Fugue (live recording) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTtcCLrNqM

Chopin - Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpbwtXP00pg

Reger - Telemann Variations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzPdVE12MvI

Liszt - Waldesrauchen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbi3XaM45ds

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In 2006 & 2007, Franz Hummel (1939-2022) composed his own set of 33 variations on a waltz by Diabelli, the very same waltz on which Beethoven based his iconic Diabelli Variations Op. 120. Is it a masterpiece or a curiosity? Jed Distler fills you in on this episode.

Here's a link to listen purchase Franz Hummel's Diabelli Variations: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7980049--beethoven-hummel-diabelli-variations

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Jed discusses the complete recordings of French pianist Edouard Risler (1873-1929), made acoustically for the Pathé label in 1917.

Link to listen via YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyKzgpI20w

Link to Marston Records release - https://www.marstonrecords.com/pages/lagniappe-5-risler

A CDR transfer - https://classicmusiccds.com/product/edouard-risler-the-complete-recordings-cdr/