Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music


Prelude in C sharp minor (1901)
Nine Preludes, op. 1
Variations in B flat minor, op. 3
Four Studies, op. 4
Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 8
Variations on a Polish Theme, op. 10
Fantasy for Piano, op. 14
Prelude and Fugue (1905/09)
Piano Sonata no. 2, op. 21
Metopes, op. 29
Twelve Studies, op. 33
Masques, op. 34
Piano Sonata no. 3, op. 36
Twenty Mazurkas, op. 50
Romantic Waltz (1925)
Four Polish Dances (1926)
Two Mazurkas, op. 62
Divine Art (21400), 4 CDs
• Gramophone Recommended Recording
• BBC Music Magazine Benchmark Recording
• MusicWeb Recording of the Month
• Pianist Magazine Recommended Recording
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage (complete)


Nimbus (NI6202), 3 CDs
• The Classical Reviewer Best of 2012
• MusicWeb International Recording of the Month
Première année: Suisse (First Year: Switzerland)
1 Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (William Tell’s Chapel)
2 Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Walenstadt)
3 Pastorale
4 Au bord d’une source (Beside a Spring)
5 Orage (Storm)
6 Vallée d’Obermann (Obermann’s Valley)
7 Églogue (Eclogue)
8 Le mal du pays (Homesickness)
9 Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva : Nocturne)
Deuxième année: Italie (Second Year: Italy)
1 Sposa lizio (Marriage)
2 Il pensi eroso (The Thinker)
3 Canzonetta del Salva tor Rosa (Salva tor Rosa’s Song)
4 Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Petrarca’s Sonnet 47)
5 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarca’s Sonnet 104)
6 Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Petrarca’s Sonnet 123)
7 Après une lecture du Dan te: Fantasia quasi sonata (After Reading Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata)
Venezia e Nappoli (Venice and Naples) Supplement to the Second Year
8 Gondoliera (Gondolier’s Song)
9 Canzone (Song)
10 Tarantella
Troisième année (Third Year)
1 Angélus! Prière aux anges gardiens (Angelus! Prayer to the Guardian Angels)
2 Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este 1: Thrénodie (To the Cypresses of the Villa d’Es te 1: Threnody)
3 Aux cyprès de la Villa d’Este 2: Thrénodie (To the Cypresses of the Villa d’Es te 2: Threnody)
4 Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este (The Fountains of the Villa d’Este)
5 Sunt lac rymae rerum / En mode hongrois (“There Are Tears for Things/In The Hungarian Mode”)
6 Marche funèbre (Funeral March)
7 Sursum corda (Lift Up Your Hearts)
York Bowen: 24 Preludes, Op. 102


Métier (MEX 77149), 1 CD
No. 1 in C Major. Moderato appassionato
No. 2 in C Minor. Andante tranquillo
No. 3 in D-Flat Major. Andante grazioso
No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor. Allegro con fuoco
No. 5 in D Major. Allegro risoluto
No. 6 in D Minor. Andante con moto
No. 7 in E-Flat Major. Andantino amabile
No. 8 in E-Flat Minor. Poco lento, serioso
No. 9 in E Major. Allegro risoluto e ritmico
No. 10 in E Minor. Moderato, a capriccio
No. 11 in F Major. Andante con moto e grazioso
No. 12 in F Minor. Allegro con fuoco
No. 13 in G-Flat Major. Andante tranquillo
No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor. Allegretto scherzando
No. 15 in G Major. Allegretto grazioso
No. 16 in G Minor. Moderato semplice
No. 17 in A-Flat Major. Andante molto espressivo
No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor. Allegro con fuoco
No. 19 in A Major. Andantino con moto
No. 20 in A Minor. Allegro con fuoco
No. 21 in B-Flat Major. Andante piacevole
No. 22 in B-Flat Minor. Allegro molto e con fuoco
No. 23 in B Major. Andante con moto
No. 24 in B Minor. Moderato serioso e tragico
