The Keyboard Connection
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The interior of a modern grand piano.
The piano was destined for success. It gave the musical world something it had wanted for centuries—a keyboard that could express a full range of musical and emotional ideas.
But its triumph didn’t happen overnight.
In this hour, music written for — and performed on — instruments that preceded the piano, as well as the first (and quite different sounding) pianos of Mozart and Beethoven.
RECORDINGS USED
| CD Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Beethoven – Bagatelles |
Steven Osborne |
Hyperion CDA67879 |
034571178790 |
| Instruments from the Russell Collection |
John Kitchen |
Delphian DCD 34001 |
801918340017 |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas |
Linda Nicholson |
Phoenix Edition Phoenix 451 |
811691014517 |
| J.S. Bach: Orchestral Works & Concertos |
La Petite Bande |
Harmonia Mundi 886976838522 |
886976838522 |
| Handel: Water Music |
English Concert, Trevor Pinnock |
Archiv Produktion 410525 |
028941052520 |
| Bach: Harpsichord Concertos |
Bob Van Asperen & Melante Amsterdam. |
Warner Classics |
5099952200120 |
| Francois Couperin |
Mitzi Meyerson |
Glossa GCD 921802 |
8424562218024 |
| Mozart: Keyboard Works |
Guy Penson |
Brilliant Classics 99725 |
5028421997254 |
| Couperin, Mozart, etc. |
Hilbrand Borkent |
Attacca Babel 8843-1 |
[Dutch CD: No barcode] |
| CPE Bach: Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 7 |
Miklos Spanyi |
BIS BIS-CD-857 |
7318590008577 |
| Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 23 |
Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood |
L'Oiseau-Lyre 452 052-2 |
028945205229
[out of print][available from Arkiv Music] |
| Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 4 |
Ronald Brautigam |
BIS BIS-CD-152 |
789368551521 |
| Beethoven - Piano Concertos |
Steven Lubin (solo) |
Decca 475 7297 |
028947572978 |
| Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas, Vol. IV |
András Schiff |
ECM New Series ECM 1944 |
028947658757 |
| Beethoven - The Five Piano Concertos, |
Murray Perahia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink |
Sony S3K 44575 |
0886971029024 |
